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	Giacomo Leoni - Open Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		In the 18th century Leoni was to be an exponent of Palladio's work, and hence, was one of the architects responsible for what in England is loosely referred to as Georgian architecture which evolved from renaissance architecture.
		Giacomo Leoni's skill was to adapt Alberti and Palladio's ideals to suit the landed classes in the country-side, without abandoning the principles of the great masters.
		Leoni broke with one Palladian tradition at Lyme, (probably in consideration of the northern climate) he provided a grand staircase to the principal floor or 'piano nobile' inside, by placing the main entrance on the ground floor.
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	Giacomo Leoni -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Giacomo Leoni (1686 - 1746) (a.k.a James Leoni) was born in (The provincial capital of Veneto; built on 118 islands within a lagoon in the Gulf of Venice; has canals instead of streets; one of Italy's major ports and a famous tourist attraction) Venice.
		Giacomo Leoni's skill was to adapt Alberti and Palladio's ideals to suit the landed classes in the countryside, without abandoning fully the principles of the great masters.
		Leoni broke with one Palladian tradition at Lyme, probably in consideration of the northern climate: he provided a grand staircase to the principal floor or ' (Click link for more info and facts about piano nobile) piano nobile' inside, placing the main entrance on the ground floor.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/G/Gi/Giacomo_Leoni.htm (1070 words)

	Encyclopedia: Giacomo-Leoni
		In the 18th century Leoni was to be an exponent of Palladio's work, and hence, was one of the architects responsible for what in England is loosely referred to as Georgian architecture which evolved from Italian Renaissance architecture.
		In the early 1720s Leoni received one of his most important challenges, to transfer the great Elizabethan house Lyme Park into an Italianate palace: this he did so sympathetically that internally large areas of the house have remained completely unaltered, and the carvings by Grinling Gibbons were left intact.
		In 1730 Leoni was commissioned by the 2nd Earl of Onslow to build what is probably his masterpiece, Clandon Park.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Giacomo_Leoni (1345 words)

	Giacomo Leoni (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Giacomo Leoni (1686 - 1746)(a.k.a James Leoni) was born in Venice.
		In the 18th century Leoni was to be an exponent of Palladio's work, andhence, was one of the architects responsible for what in England is loosely referredto as Georgian architecture which evolved from renaissance architecture.
		Giacomo Leoni's skill was to adapt Alberti and Palladio's ideals to suit the landed classes in the country-side, withoutabandoning the principles of the great masters.
	www.therfcc.org /giacomo-leoni-118566.html (1118 words)

	Giacomo Leoni (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Leoni no importó la arquitectura de Palladian a Inglaterra, ese espaldarazo pertenece firmemente a Inigo Jones que había diseñado la casa de la reina palladian en Greenwich en 1616 y la casa que banquetea más adornada en Whitehall en 1619.
		Leoni construiría con frecuencia en ambos, dependiendo de disponibilidad y cuál era indígena al área del sitio.
		Leoni se rompió con una tradición de Palladian en Lyme, (probablemente en la consideración del clima norteño) él proporcionó una escalera magnífica al piso o al ' piano principal nobile ' adentro, poniendo la entrada principal en la planta.
	www.yotor.net /wiki/es/gi/Giacomo%20Leoni.htm (1196 words)

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		Vignola, Giacomo da Vignola, Giacomo dajä´kōmō dä vēnyō´lä, 1507-73, one of the foremost late Renaissance architects in Italy.
		Antonelli, Giacomo Antonelli, Giacomojä´kōmō äntōnĕl´lē, 1806-76, Italian cardinal and statesman of the Roman Catholic Church, adviser to Pope Pius IX.
		Cavedone, Giacomo Cavedone, Giacomojä´kōmō kävādô´nā, 1577-1660, Italian painter, of the Bolognese school.
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	American Vision of Harmony by Rachel Fletcher in the Nexus Network Journal vol. 5 no. 2 (Autumn 2003) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Leoni's Palladio notes that the Pantheon "bears the figure of the World, or is round" [Leoni 1742, II: IV, xx, 28].
		The half-side of the equilateral triangle and its altitude are equal in length to the axes of the vesica piscis, in
		At least three were produced with plates redrawn by Giacomo Leoni, whose 1721 edition served as Jefferson's primary source for the University Rotunda and as a pattern book for buildings throughout the campus [O'Neal 1960, 2; O'Neal 1978, 255].
	www.nexusjournal.com /Fletcher-v5n2.html (11827 words)

	Lyme Park (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The front was altered by successive Leghs to become the way we see it today after Giacomo Leoni's substantial remodelling in the early eighteenth century.
		As you pass through into the courtyard, the heavy Palladian regularity of the stonework is impressive, but rather austere in the cold light of northern England.
		The south front that you see above was completed by 1732 and Leoni's original intention was for a cupola rising above the monumental ionic portico.
	www.heritage.me.uk /houses/lyme.htm (937 words)

	The U.S. Consulate General Building in istanbul (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		In 1873, Signor Corpi called the architect Giacomo Leoni from Italy, and charged him with building a palatial residence that would bear the Corpi family’s name.
		All the frescoes were executed by Italian artists brought to Constantinople by the architect Leoni.
		Sadly, during a "renovation" in 1937, the walls and ceilings on the ground floor were plastered and/or painted over.
	www.usconsulate-istanbul.org.tr /conbuild.html (1364 words)

	Joseph Connors (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The great architectural publisher of the reign of Alexander VII was Giovanni Giacomo de Rossi (1627-91), who by inheritance and acquisition had assembled a large collection of plates in his shop in Piazza della Pace.
		But it is with the Giovanni Giacomo's Nuovo teatro of 1665 and the advent of Falda that Borromini is really published in abundance for the first time, albeit in stolen images.
		Giovanni Giacomo's rival was a cousin of the same clan, Giovanni Battista de Rossi (c.
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		In the magnificent gardens are temples and follies built by various owners and tenants.
		One especially outstanding garden building was commissioned by George Hamilton, 1st Earl of Orkney in 1735; this is the octagonal temple (now the chapel) by the architect Giacomo Leoni.
		In 1893 it became the home of the Astor family; from 1919 it was the home of Waldorf Astor, 2nd Viscount Astor and his wife Nancy Astor, Viscountess Astor, the first woman Member of Parliament to take her seat.
	www.hostingciamca.com /index.php?title=Cliveden (702 words)

	Science Fair Projects - Giacomo Leoni
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		The transformation at Lyme was a success, if a little spoilt later by the addition of a box-like structure surrounding the centre pediment in the 19th century by the English architect Lewis Wyatt ; this squat tower was is in the place of Leoni's intended cupola rejected by the owner.
		However, Lyme Park with its massive Ionic portico and matching wings sitting on their rusticated basement, plus the internal courtyard, is one of the purest Palladian buildings to survive from that era.
	www.all-science-fair-projects.com /science_fair_projects_encyclopedia/Giacomo_Leoni (1363 words)

	tja: Part 4
		Before 1783 1815 Note: p97f3 Palladio by Leoni.
		Note: p97f4 1815 Note: p97f3 Palladio by Leoni with Inigo Jones's notes.
		Rossi, Giovanni Giacomo de and Giovanni Battista Falda.
	jefferson.village.virginia.edu /wilson/TJA/tja.body4.html (2817 words)

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