Andrea Palladio. ........................ Virtual Tours of Architecture - Table of Contents

A Sampling of Drawings from
Andrea Palladio's The Four Books of Architecture
1738 Edition originally published by Isaac Ware
Reprinted from Dover Pictorial Archive Service

Palladio ranks among the most influential architects of all time, primarily because of his 4-volume book, The Architecture of A. Palladio, first published in 1570, ten years before his death. A second edition followed in 1581, a year after his death, another in 1601, and son on in remarkable succession. .....


Frontispiece

Tuscan columns

Tuscan columns flanking rounded arch

Doric order

Doric order

Ionic order

Ionic order

Corinthian order

Corinthian order

Composite order

Composite order

Town -house in Udene

Part of the front of the Count Iseppo de Porti House

Half the front of the Valmaranas' House

Bridge in Rimino

Basilica at Vicenza

See also:
Andrea Palladio

Temple of Mars the Avenger soffit of the portico

Temple of the Fortuna Virilis

Pantheon in Rome


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