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)
![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) by James [Giacomo] Leoni|John Watts|Bernard Picart|Michael Vandergucht|John Harris, the elder|Nicholas DuBois|Andrea Palladio](https://images.artheonmuseum.org/met/dp/thumb/the-architecture-of-a-palladio-in-four-books-348912.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)
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)
Tags
Art Historical Context
Published in 1715 (with plates completed between 1716 and 1720), *The Architecture of A. Palladio in Four Books* is a lavish English edition of Andrea Palladio's groundbreaking 1570 treatise, *I Quattro Libri dell'Architettura*. Translated and adapted by Italian-born architect James (Giacomo) Leoni, with engravings by skilled artists like Bernard Picart, Michael Vandergucht, and others, this volume brought the Renaissance master's principles of classical architecture to British audiences. Palladio, a Venetian architect revered for villas like Villa Rotonda, codified the five orders—Doric, Ioni...
About the Artist
James [Giacomo] Leoni|John Watts|Bernard Picart|Michael Vandergucht|John Harris, the elder|Nicholas DuBois|Andrea Palladio (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