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To look at Andrea Palladio`s drawings brings you so tantalisingly close to the hand and mind of a great master of architecture that HE is your
Eric Parry / The Architectural Review
Oct 01, 2008
To look at Andrea Palladio`s drawings brings you so tantalisingly close to the hand and mind of a great master of architecture that HE is your guide.You can hear his thoughts on Roman ruins, through his measured drawings and sketches, in the revelation of their echoing emptiness; in the elevation of the everyday, always with a grounded sense of practicality, in his villa studies; and in the intense distillation of a shared world view in the later Vicentine and Venetian projects. We owe the RIBA`s extraordinary collection in large part to lnigo Jones who instigated their purchase to bring them from Italy 35 years after Palladio`s death. The Centro Palladio Vicenza began to commission its 1:33 scale models for the exhibition designed by Franco Albini in the Basilica Vicenza in 1971, these were shown in the Arts Council exhibition at the Hayward in 1975.
Bringing the drawings, models and Treatises together to celebrate the 500th year of his birth ( 1508) is an obvious thing to do.The Royal Academy of Arts has arguably the best spaces in London to do it in and so following the opening in Vicenza the exhibition will come to London at the end of January 2009.As for material substance it is interesting that it came as a shock to James Stirling that Palladio, constrained by budget but also by choice, built mainly in rendered brick - simple means with imagination to the most sophisticated and beautiful ends.
ERIC PARRY
Palladio is at the Royal Academy of Arts. Piccadilly. 3 I January - I 3 April 2009. open daily, www.royalacademy-org.uk
NEXT YEAR, IN HONOUR OF THE QUINCENTENARY OF PALLADIO`S BIRTH, LONDON`S ROYAL ACADEMY OF ARTS WILL PRESENT THE FIRST UK EXHIBITION DEVOTED TO THE RENAISSANCE MASTER IN OVER 30 YEARS. ERIC PARRY`S EXHIBITION DESIGN REFLECTS BOTH THE INTIMACY AND THE IMMEDIACY OF PALLADIO`S EXQUISITE DRAWINGS AND MODELS.
ILLUSTRATIONS
1 Model of the Church of the Redentore, Venice, 1972. Lime and beechwood with bisque details, 152 脳 241 脳 87cm. Centro Internazionale dt Studi di Architettura Andrea Palladio, Vicenza.
2 Andrea Palladio, Baths of Agrippa, sections and elevations. Pen, ink and wash, 28.7 脳 42cm. RIBA Library Drawings and Archives Collection.
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Bringing the drawings, models and Treatises together to celebrate the 500th year of his birth ( 1508) is an obvious thing to do.The Royal Academy of Arts has arguably the best spaces in London to do it in and so following the opening in Vicenza the exhibition will come to London at the end of January 2009.As for material substance it is interesting that it came as a shock to James Stirling that Palladio, constrained by budget but also by choice, built mainly in rendered brick - simple means with imagination to the most sophisticated and beautiful ends.
ERIC PARRY
Palladio is at the Royal Academy of Arts. Piccadilly. 3 I January - I 3 April 2009. open daily, www.royalacademy-org.uk
NEXT YEAR, IN HONOUR OF THE QUINCENTENARY OF PALLADIO`S BIRTH, LONDON`S ROYAL ACADEMY OF ARTS WILL PRESENT THE FIRST UK EXHIBITION DEVOTED TO THE RENAISSANCE MASTER IN OVER 30 YEARS. ERIC PARRY`S EXHIBITION DESIGN REFLECTS BOTH THE INTIMACY AND THE IMMEDIACY OF PALLADIO`S EXQUISITE DRAWINGS AND MODELS.
ILLUSTRATIONS
1 Model of the Church of the Redentore, Venice, 1972. Lime and beechwood with bisque details, 152 脳 241 脳 87cm. Centro Internazionale dt Studi di Architettura Andrea Palladio, Vicenza.
2 Andrea Palladio, Baths of Agrippa, sections and elevations. Pen, ink and wash, 28.7 脳 42cm. RIBA Library Drawings and Archives Collection.
COPYRIGHT: Copyright EMAP Architecture Oct 2008. Provided by Proquest- CSA, LLC. All Rights Reserved. Only fair use as provided by the United States copyright law is permitted.
PROQUEST-CSA, LLC- MAKES NO WARRANTY REGARDING THE ACCURACY, COMPLETENESS, OR TIMELINESS OF THE LICENSED MATERIALS OR ANY WARRANTY, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED.
