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Genius of the Villa Rotonda

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Date Recorded: September 15, 2010
Duration: 00:01:31

Howard Burns reflects on the design of the Villa Rotonda (1566), one of Palladio’s defining—and most famous—buildings.

Photo credits: Villa Rotonda, ©Pino Guidolotti; Courtesy Centro Internazionale di Studi di Architettura Andrea Palladio. Model of the Villa Rotonda, 2010; Timothy Richards, Courtesy Workshop of Timothy Richards, Bath, England. Drawing of the Villa Rotonda; from Edward Hoppus and Benjamin Cole’s English edition of Andrea Palladio’s I Quattro Libri dell'Achitetettura published as Andrea Palladio's Architecture (1732– 1735). Courtesy RIBA British Architectural Library.

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