However, The Four Books of Architecture provided systematic rules and plans for buildings which were creative and unique. Palladio drew inspiration from surviving Roman buildings, Roman authors (especially the architect Vitruvius) and Italian Renaissance architects. The Four Books was used to inform his own work as the architect of Monticello and the University of Virginia and also architect William Buckland's at the 1774 Hammond-Harwood House in Annapolis, Maryland. Thomas Jefferson, President of the United States, was a keen admirer of Palladio and once referred to the book as "the Bible". Palladian architecture grew in popularity across Europe and, by the end of the 18th century, had extended as far as North America. The book's clarity inspired numerous patrons and other architects. Some of these ideas had got no further than the drawing board while others, for example villa plans, had been successfully built. I quattro libri dell'architettura contains Palladio's own designs celebrating the purity and simplicity of classical architecture. Palladio founded an architectural movement which takes its name from him, Palladian architecture. Of the Temple of Neptune ( Temple of Neptune (Rome)) Of two other Temples at Rome, and first of the Temple of Concord ( Temple of Saturn) Of the other Temple of Nîmes ( Temple of Diana, Nîmes) Of the two Temples at Nîmes of first of that which is call'd la Maison quarrée, or the square House ( Maison Carrée) Of the Draughts of some Temples which are out of Italy and first of the two temples of Pola ( Temple of Augustus, Pula) Of the Temple of Scisi ( Temple of Minerva, Assisi)
Of the Temple which is below Trevi ( Temple of Clitumnus) Of the Temple of Castor and Pollux ( San Paolo Maggiore) Of the Temple of Vesta ( Temple of Vesta, Tivoli) Sebastian’s Church on the Appian Way ( Santi Cosma e Damiano) Of the Temple whose Vestiges are seen near St. Of the Draughts of some Temples that are out of Rome, or in other parts of Italy and the first of the Temples of Bacchus ( Santa Costanza) Of the Temple of Jupiter the Thunderer ( Temple of Jupiter Feretrius) Of the Temple of Jupiter Stator ( Temple of Jupiter Stator (2nd century BC)) Of the Temple of Bramante ( San Pietro in Montorio) Of the Baptism of Constantine ( Lateran Baptistery) Of the Temple of Mars ( Temple of Hadrian) Of the Temple of Vesta ( Temple of Vesta) Of the Temple of Fortuna virilis, or Manly Fortune ( Temple of Portunus) Of the Temple of Jupiter ( Temple of Seraphis) Of the Temple vulgarly call'd the "Galluce" ( Temple of Minerva Medica (nymphaeum)) Of the Temples of the Sun and Moon ( Temple of Venus and Roma) Of the Temple of Antoninius and Faustina ( Temple of Antoninus and Faustina) Of the Temple of Nerva Trajan ( Temple of Trajan)
Of the Temple of Mars the Avenger (at the Forum of Augustus) Of the Draughts of some ancient Temples that are in Rome, and first of the Temple of Peace ( Temple of Peace, Rome) Illustrations of the temples include careful measurements of existing building elements, together with Palladio's own conjectural interpretations of the temple's facades where only fragments remained, as at the Temple of Trajan. (The exception is the San Pietro in Montorio, designed by Donato Bramante, consecrated in the year 1500.) Palladio's selections range geographically from Rome, Naples, Spoleto, Assisi, Pola and Nîmes. The fourth book contains five chapters of general introduction, then 26 chapters, each of which describe the designs of specific Roman temples dating from antiquity, along with one contemporary church design. The third book addresses matters of city planning: streets, stone street paving, bridges of both stone and wood, and piazzas, with examples drawn from Roman origins alongside contemporary examples also basilicas, including the basilica designed by Vitruvius in Fano and the important Basilica Palladiana in Vicenza. The plates of completed projects sometimes differ from the buildings as actually constructed.
PALLADIO FOUR BOOKS OF ARCHITECTURE COLUMN PROPORTIONS SERIES
This includes nine palazzi, 22 villas (13 of them completed, another five partly completed), and a series of unrealized projects. The second book covers the designs of private urban townhouses and country villas of the 1500s, in and around Venice, almost all designed by Palladio himself. It documents five classical orders (Doric, Ionic, Corinthian, Tuscan, Composite) in all their parts (bases, columns, architraves, arches, capitals, trabeations), as well as discussing other building elements (vaulted ceilings, floors, doors and windows, fireplaces, roofs and stairs). The first book discusses building materials and techniques.