Palladio (Architect and Society)

Ackerman, James S.

ISBN 10: 0140208453 / ISBN 13: 9780140208450

Published by Penguin Books, 1974

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Palladio is the most imitated architect in history. His buildings have been copied all over the Western world - from Leningrad to Philadelphia - and his ideas on proportion are still current nearly four hundred years after his death. In this, the first full account of his career to be published in English, Professor James Ackerman investigates the reasons for his enormous and enduring success. He presents him in his historical setting but is constantly alert to his relevance for us today. Good condition. Slight yellowing due to age. LL.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Palladio (Architect and Society)
• Publisher: Penguin Books
• Publication Date: 1974
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0140208453
• ISBN 13: 9780140208450
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • Architecture

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About the Author

James S. Ackerman is Arthur Kingsley Porter Professor of Fine Arts Emeritus at Harvard University and a Fellow and former Trustee of the American Academy in Rome. Professor Ackerman has lived for several years in Italy, beginning with service during the last war, and is the author of many studies on Italian architecture, including The Cortile del Belvedere (1954), and The Architecture of Michelangelo (1961). He has published The Villa: Form and Ideology of Country Houses (1990) and Distance Points. He is co-author of a volume on historical practice and theory, Art and Archaeology (1963) and has also conceived and narrated the films Looking for Renaissance Rome (1975, with Kathleen Weil-Garris Brandt) and Palladio the Architet and His Influence in America (1980).

Phyllis Massar is an architectural photographer who lives in New York City.