villa rotonda materials Archives - ToursMaps.com ® http://toursmaps.com/tag/villa-rotonda-materials Thu, 08 Sep 2016 13:03:35 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.0.9 Villa La Rotonda COUNTRY HOUSE VICENZA, ITALY http://toursmaps.com/villa-la-rotonda-country-house-vicenza-italy.html http://toursmaps.com/villa-la-rotonda-country-house-vicenza-italy.html#respond Thu, 08 Sep 2016 18:39:36 +0000 http://toursmaps.com/?p=221159 ANDREA PALLADIO Set on a hilltop in northern Italy, the supremely elegant Villa La Rotonda is the most famous of the country houses designed by the Renaissance architect Andrea Palladio for noble families from Venice and the surrounding area, the Veneto. In these houses, which served as rural retreats for sophisticated clients, details drawn from classical Roman architecture were combined with a very formal geometry in which, for example, rooms might be planned as perfect circles or squares. La Rotonda is in some ways the most perfect of these villas. It has inspired the admiration of architects and visitors alike

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