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  Villa Capra "La Rotonda" biography .ms   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
To describe the villa as a 'rotonda' is technically incorrect as the building is not circular but rather the intersection of a square with a cross.
This same view, in reverse, from the villa, highlights the classical chapel on the edge of Vicenza itself, thus villa and town are united.
Today the Villa Capra is in the ownership of Mario di Valmarana, an architect, and expert on the works of Palladio and also a former professor of architecture at University of Virginia since 1973.
villa-rotunda.biography.ms   (807 words)

  
 VILLA - LoveToKnow Article on VILLA
According to Pliny, there were two kinds of villas, the villa urbana, which was a country seat, and the villa rustica, the farm-house, occupied by the servants who had charge generally of the estate.
The Villa Boscoreale near Pompeii, which was excavated in 189394, was an example of the villa rustica, in which the principal room was the kitchen, with the bakery and stables beyond and room for the wine presses, oil presses, hand mill, andc.
In the proximity of other towns in Italy there are numerous villas, of which the example best known is that of the Villa Rotunda or Capra near Vicenza, which was copied by Lord Burlington in his house at Chiswick.
www.1911encyclopedia.org /V/VI/VILLA.htm   (236 words)

  
 VILLA - Online Information article about VILLA
References to the villa are constantly made by Roman writers.
Italian villas of the 16th century, among which the following are the best known: the Villa Madama, the design of which, attributed to See also:
Frascati, and the Villa d'Este near Tivoli, in which the terraces and staircases are of great importance.
encyclopedia.jrank.org /VAN_VIR/VILLA.html   (814 words)

  
 MSN Encarta - Search View - Modern Architecture
Among notable early modern architectural projects are exuberant and richly decorated buildings in Glasgow, Scotland, by Charles Rennie Mackintosh; imaginative designs for a city of the future by Italian visionary Antonio Sant’Elia; and houses with flowing interior spaces and projecting roofs by the American pioneer of modernism, Frank Lloyd Wright.
Le Corbusier’s Villa Savoye (1928-1931) at Poissy, France, exemplifies all of these features, and its circular staircase and series of ramps help to showcase his arrangement of spaces and volumes.
For the Villa Mairea (1939) in Noormarkku, Finland, Aalto layered sensuous strips of teak and other woods, even using teak for the venetian blinds on the exterior of the windows.
encarta.msn.com /text_761595616__1/Modern_Architecture.html   (8151 words)

  
 Villa Capra, or Villa Rotunda - Andrea Palladio - Great Buildings Online
Situated on the top of a hill just outside the town of Vicenza, the Villa Capra is called the Villa Rotonda, because of its completely symmetrical plan with a central circular hall.
The villa is asymmetrically sited in the topography, and each loggia, although identical in design, relates to the landscape it enfronts differently through variations of wide steps, retaining walls and embankments.
This axis is flanked by a service building and continues visually to a chapel at the edge of the town, thus connecting villa and town.
www.greatbuildings.com /buildings/Villa_Capra.html   (542 words)

  
 During the spring and most essentially in the fall of the year it was proper for society to leave the city and move to ...
The initial site of the Villa Rotunda the viewer is faced with three of the four projecting porticoes that lift the villa from the land.
Visually the villa is separated from the landscape by the elevation and the smooth surface quality, the sharp right angles and geometric forms.
Although most of the decoration was added much later to the villa the eight statues that stand at the end of the stairs "were added immediately, so quickly (four years after the building had begun) that Palladio could credit their sculptor in the Four Books." This controversy art historian has not been able to solve.
www2.students.sbc.edu /bryenton00/16th/16thc-paper.html   (713 words)

  
 nicobrooks
Villa Rotunda, considered by some as Palladio's greatest work, is just up the road from Villa Saraceno.
The villa is in the coutryside to the south of Vicenza where Palladio did much of his work.
On the first day at the villa we ended up going out to dinner at a pub/pizza restaurant in a medieval castle nearby, as food stores were all closed by the time we'd rallied to organize dinner.
nico.typepad.com   (578 words)

  
 CHAPTER SEVEN
The Villa Rotunda was not intended to be a farm centre; but a place for otium and entertainment close to the city.
  In this instance, the connection remains mainly for the owner as it is the interior of the dome that evokes the dome of the Pantheon, the exterior of the Rotunda hardly resembles Hadrian’s monument at all.
Unlike the Villa Barbaro at Maser, it could be said that this work was formed as a house of the golden age of antiquity.
rubens.anu.edu.au /raider4/chandler/chap7.htm   (1044 words)

  
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 Chiswick House   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
It was modelled on Palladio's Villa Rotunda at Vicenza by the 3rd Earl of Burlington and built between 1726-9 as an adjunct to a 17th century house on the site which was damaged by fire in 1725.
The villa's spectacular plaster ceilings and Inigo Jones-inspired fireplace are by William Kent.
The villa was inherited in 1753 by the 4th Duke of Devonshire.
pastscape.english-heritage.org.uk /hob.asp?hob_no=532209   (271 words)

  
 The Poetry of the Classical Villa   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The application of Bruno's Philosophy to the evolution of the villa may seem a little unusual at first reading, but the villa is a domestic building built on the classical style.
The Rotunda combined the form of the temple and the spirit of the ideal villa.
The similarities to Palladio's work are evident (to his Rotunda, however, it is limited to the domed central unit that is situated within a square block) in the pedimented temple front portico, the elevated main floor reached by a stair, the use of the Corinthian order, and the Palladian windows.
members.aol.com /ennedykay/villa.html   (3741 words)

  
 Architect's Final Exam   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Be sure to include the Villa's location in relation to the rest of the universe.
BONUS: plot the trajectory of the Villa Rotunda through the known universe for the next hundred years.
If this plotting ends before the 100 year span with the Villa engulfed in the heart of a star, continue to plot the trajectory of the remains.
www.sonic.net /~paul/humour/msg00063.html   (385 words)

  
 Florida Villas - Gulf Coast Villa Rentals
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 villa   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
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 Villa La Rotonda   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Tipologically it differs from the other Palladio's buildings: in fact, it hasn't a longitudinal plane and it is also the only crowned by a cupola (that in the original map appeared hemispherical and more emergent).
In the villa designed for the prelate, Palladio introduces, thus, formal elements assigned to suggest a significance of sacredness.
Palladio probably was ispired by the roman Pantheon, then named "Rotonda", resuming the classical theme of the "sacred space" that comes from the contamination between the different formal models of the circle and of the quadrate, of the cube and of the sphere.
ville.inews.it /erotonda.htm   (227 words)

  
 4 bedroom villa in Indian Point
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For the comfort and safety of all guests there is no smoking permitted within the villa.
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 Architect rebuilds knowledge of Villa Rotunda - Rebel Yell - Arts & Entertainment   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Although he is currently serving as a professor of art theory and criticism, in the past, Hickey served as an owner-director of a number of galleries in NYC and Texas.
Hickey is considered to be an influential source on art, and with his analysis of Palladio's Villa Rotunda, he gave the audience, which consisted of knowledgeable students and professionals, a different perspective about Palladio and especially The Villa.
Hickey finished his lecture by notating the fact that as one looks at the Rotunda, one must laugh at the self awareness of the building, which has a façade all around it's four corners, something which at the time was considered radical.
www.ryunlv.com /news/2003/04/07/ArtsEntertainment/Architect.Rebuilds.Knowledge.Of.Villa.Rotunda-410934.shtml   (544 words)

  
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The relationship between the two things is not dichotomous, each thing, the landscape and the architecture, become dependent on the other.
In other words, the architecture is not a single frame but is composed of many nested frames of interiority contiguously conjoined with landscape.
In his book, The Villa: Form and Ideology of Country Houses, James Ackerman considers two models, the compact-cubic and the open-extended.
aalto.arch.ksu.edu /personal/knoxweb/2_3/2_3index.htm   (2206 words)

  
 villarotunda.htm   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Height of dome: 70 feet; villa 80 feet square.
The roots of his principles lie in Classicism, but his specialty was the richly inventive way in which he could arrange Classical elements to produce surprises such as the four identical porches.
This feature of the Villa Rotunda represents an unexpected exaggeration: although Classical in proportion and appearance, no Roman temple would boast a porch on every side.
www.etsu.edu /philos/classes/rk/highrenaissance/htmdescriptionpages/villarotunda.htm   (154 words)

  
 Images of The Rotonda (Villa Capra), Vicenza, Italy, begun 1550, by Andrea Palladio. Digital Imaging Project: Art ...
This villa, located on a slight elevation a few miles outside Vicenza, was built for Canon Paolo Almerico.
This is one of more than 20 villas designed by Palladio on the Venetian mainland.
Villas were not only built as a way of avoiding the heat and congestion of Italian cities but as a means of affirming humanist Renaissance values.
www.bluffton.edu /~sullivanm/rotonda/rotonda.html   (325 words)

  
 index   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
This is a large privately owned villa at Rotonda near Englewood on Florida's Gulf Coast.
The villa is ideally situated in an area characterised by long sandy beaches, inland waterways and superb weather all year round.
This immaculate villa is fully air conditioned, is not overlooked and backs onto a private waterway ideal for fishing.
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 La Villa Rotunda
Of all the architecture defined throughout Andrea Palladio's career, the Villa Rotunda is considered to be the ultimate edification of it all.
This consentual agreement could be due to the fact that it is the best illustration of the genius embodying his architectural theories or that it is the most beautiful and well-known of all his villas.
However I feel it is because in this one villa he solved so many fundamental problems in such a simple, original manner.
www.public.iastate.edu /~craiger   (208 words)

  
 Veteran's Honorary High School Diploma Award Ceremony   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
State Superintendent Linda McCulloch hosted a ceremony on May 27, 2003 in the Capitol Rotunda to award Montana's first group of veterans with their honorary high school diplomas.
U.S Army Veteran Pete Villa was only one year older than his grandson Christopher when he fibbed about his age and enlisted in 1940.
World War II was in full swing, and everyone in the United States, including the Villa family in Browning were mindful of the increasing U.S. in-volvement in the European conflict and the possibility that local boys could be lost overseas.
www.opi.state.mt.us /VeteransEd/awards.html   (744 words)

  
 Sunset Ridge Villa   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
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Along with this is a PS2 for the kids (and the big kids).The study has a bed settee so there is the opportunity to actually sleep 12 people.
The villa is luxuriously decorated and furnished throughout.
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 Figures for Wassell's "The Mathematics of Palladio's Villas: Workshops '98 AND '99" Nexus Network Journal v1n2   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The participants of the first workshop on the steps of the Villa Pisani, Bagnolo: first row (l-r), Rocco Leonardis, Michael Ostwald, Stephen Wassell; second row (l-r), David Spieser, Ruth Spieser, Countess Cornelia Ferri di Lazara, Susan Knight, Kim Williams, Vera Spinadel (photo courtesy of Stephen R. Wassell).
Illustration of Alberti's description of a unit cube exhibiting the proportions root-2 and root-3, based on a figure from an illustrated translation of Alberti's treatise: James Leoni, Ten Books on Architecture (London: Alec Tiranti, 1955), fig.
The proportion as measured from the photograph is almost precisely 2:1, but on site measurements are necessary to ensure accuracy (photo by the author).
www.nexusjournal.com /Wassell_figures.html   (269 words)

  
 Andrea Palladio - Great Buildings Online
Villa Capra, or Villa Rotunda, at Vicenza, Italy, 1566 to 1571.
Villa Foscari, at Malcontenta, Italy, 1549 to 1563.
His early commissions consisted primarily of palaces and villas for the aristocracy, but he began to design religious buildings in the 1560s.
www.greatbuildings.com /architects/Andrea_Palladio.html   (321 words)

  
 Sophisticated Fun   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
n According to Jim Bershof, AIA, principal of OZ Architecture in Denver, the new 4,000-square-foot guest house combines the prairie style of the main house with influences from the Villa Rotunda, an entertainment villa in Venice, Italy, that sits atop a hill affording views in all four directions.
The views from this Denver villa include a formal garden to the east, the swimming pool to the west, the property's front entrance and expanse to the south and a pond and the main house to the north.
Other attractions on the property are tennis courts, a golf tee and green for practice and a stream that runs between the pool and the pond.
www.isdesignet.com /Magazine/Jun'95/instal_MacMillan.html   (837 words)

  
 Young, Arthur Young's Travels in France, Front Matter: Library of Economics and Liberty   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Alone, unarmed, ignorant of the various patois—sole medium of intercourse in rural districts—our inquisitive and dauntless traveller visits one out-of-the-way region after another, apparently unconscious, whilst narrating these unique experiences, that his conduct was little short of heroic.
The fittest introduction to the centennial edition of such a work is surely a survey of France in the present day—not made in the Rotunda of the British Museum or by the library fireside, but after Arthur Young's own fashion—the fruit of investigations as laboriously and lovingly pursued as those of my great predecessor.
Suburban Châteauroux has, indeed, been appropriated by this class: the brand-new cottages and semi-detached villas on the outskirts of the town representing the thrift of the mechanic—an instance of self-help and sobriety hardly equalled throughout France.
www.econlib.org /library/YPDBooks/Young/yngTF0.html   (15455 words)

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