The Palladian revival
Subtitle: Lord Burlington, his villa and garden at Chiswick
By: John Harris.
Contributors: Centre canadien d'architecture.; Carnegie Museum of Art.; Royal Academy of Arts (Great Britain)
Publisher: Published in association with Yale University Press
Published: 1994
Place of publication: New Haven
Language: eng
Number of pages: 280
Subjects: Burlington, Richard Boyle, Earl of, 1694-1753 -- Criticism and interpretation -- Exhibitions; Palladio, Andrea, 1508-1580 -- Influence -- Exhibitions; Chiswick House (Hounslow, London, England) -- Exhibitions; Classicism in architecture -- England -- London -- Exhibitions; Chiswick (London, England) -- Buildings, structures, etc. -- Exhibitions; Chiswick House Garden (Hounslow, London, England) -- Exhibitions
Description: In 1726 Richard Boyle, 3rd Earl of Burlington, built an addition to his modest country house on the river Thames at Chiswick which became the touchstone of Neo-Palladian architecture; its architect became known as the 'Modern Vitruvius', the 'Apollo of the Arts'.

Influenced by the architecture of Andrea Palladio and by British architects from Inigo Jones to James Gibbs and Colen Campbell, who followed in Palladio's footsteps, Lord Burlington raised a freestanding villa, an English response to Palladio's famous Villa Rotonda. The villa, with sumptuous interiors designed by Burlington and William Kent, was as distinguished as any designed by Palladio or Jones.

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This lavishly illustrated book focuses on the creation of this famous 'Villa by the Thames'. John Harris explores the evolution of the building's design; the book examines and reproduces paintings, watercolours, drawings (including those of Palladio and Inigo Jones owned by Lord Burlington), plans and elevations, and books and prints.

It also charts the transformation of the grounds from seventeenth-century formality to eighteenth-century variety, reproducing rare garden studies by Kent, as well as numerous topographical views that record the transformation into an arcadian landscape. This book, which serves as the catalogue of an exhibition to be seen in Montreal, Pittsburgh and London, is richly illustrated with material still largely in the collection of Burlington's heirs, the Dukes of Devonshire, at Chatsworth.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [272]-274) and index.
Map on end pages.
Catalog of an exhibition at the Centre Canadien d'Architecture/Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montreal, July 19-Sept. 25, 1994; the Heinz Architectural Center, the Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Oct. 29, 1994-Jan. 9, 1995; and the Royal Academy of Arts, London, Feb. 2-Apr. 2, 1995.