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Harmondsworth : Penguin, 1966. 1st edition. Softcover. Near fine paperback copy; edges very slightly dust-dulled and nicked. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, and clean. Series: Pelican books, A845. Physical description: 195 p. :ill. ; 20 cm. Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 187-191) and index. Contents: Palladio and his times -- Villas -- Civic and domestic architecture -- Ecclesiastical architecture -- Principles of Palladio's architecture. Subjects: Palladio, Andrea 1508-1580; Architecture, Renaissance Italy; Architecture and Planning; Architecture; History of art; Individual artists, art monographs; Individual architects & architectural firms; Italy 16th century, c 1500 to c 1599; History of architecture; Biography: general.
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James S. Ackerman , Arthur Kingsley Porter Professor of Fine Arts Emeritus at Harvard University and a Fellow and former Trustee of the American Academy in Rome, was born in San Francisco in 1919 and studied at Yale and New York University. He is a former editor of the Art Bulletin , a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a corresponding member of the British Academy, the Accademia Olimpica (Vicenza), the Ateneo Veneto and the Royal Academy of Uppsala. He gave the Slade Lectures at Cambridge in 1969-70. Professor Ackerman has lived several years in Italy, beginning with service during the last war, and is the author of many studies on Italian architecture, including The Cortile del Belvedere (1954), a history of the Renaissance portion of the Vatican Palace, and The Architecture of Michelangelo (1961), which received the Charles Rufus Morey Award of the College Art Association of America and the Alice David Hitchcock Award of the Society of Architectural Historians. Recently, he has published The Villa: Form and Ideology of Country Houses (1990); a volume of collected essays, Distance Points , is in press. He is co-author of a volume on historical practice and theory, Art and Archaeology (1963). He has conceived an narrated the films Looking for Renaissance Rome (1975, with Kathleen Weil-Garris Brandt) and Palladio the Architet and His Influence in America (1980).
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- Title
- Palladio
- Author
- Ackerman, James S
- Format/Binding
- Softcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st edition
- Binding
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Harmondsworth : Penguin
- Date Published
- 1966
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