Design for a Corinthian Hall, in The Architecture of A. Palladio in Four Books containing a Short Treatise on the Five Orders (L'Architecture de A. Palladio en quatre livres... / Il quattro libri dell'architettura) (Volume 1, book 2, plate 28)
![Design for a Corinthian Hall, in The Architecture of A. Palladio in Four Books containing a Short Treatise on the Five Orders (L'Architecture de A. Palladio en quatre livres... / Il quattro libri dell'architettura) (Volume 1, book 2, plate 28) by John Watts|Andrea Palladio|Bernard Picart|James [Giacomo] Leoni|Nicholas DuBois](https://images.artheonmuseum.org/met/dp/thumb/design-for-a-corinthian-hall-in-the-architecture-698059.webp)
Medium
Illustrations: etching and engraving
Dimensions
Book: 17 13/16 × 11 5/8 × 2 3/16 in. (45.3 × 29.5 × 5.5 cm) Sheet: 17 9/16 x 10 1/4 in. (44.6 x 26 cm) Plate: 12 5/8 × 8 11/16 in. (32 × 22.1 cm)
Classification
Books|Ornament & Architecture
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Bequest of W. Gedney Beatty, 1941
Accession Number
41.100.169(1.2.28)
Tags
Art Historical Context
This exquisite etching and engraving, titled *Design for a Corinthian*, appears as plate 28 in Volume1, Book 2 of *The Architecture of A. Pall in Four Books* (1715–20), an influential English edition of Andrea Palladio's seminal 1570 treatise on classical architecture. Crafted by a collaborative team including James (Giacomo) Leoni as editor-translator, engravers Bernard Picart, Nicholas Duois, and John Watts it vividly illustrates Palladio's vision of a grand hall adorned in the ornate Corinthian order—the most elaborate of the five classical columns, with acanthus-leaf capitals evoking ancie...
About the Artist
John Watts|Andrea Palladio|Bernard Picart|James [Giacomo] Leoni|Nicholas DuBois (French|British|British|British?|Italian) · 1673 |1700 |1686 |1665 |1508 –1733 |1800 |1746 |1735 |1580
French, Paris 1673–1733 Amsterdam|London|British (born Italy) ca. 1686–1746 London|ca. 1665–1735|Italian, Padua 1508–1580 Vicenza