Villas and Palaces of Europe by Adalbert Dal Lago

Villas and Palaces of Europe

by Adalbert Dal Lago

Paul Hamlyn Cameo Art Series

Hamlyn Publishing Group, 1969, colour photographic plates throughout, hardcover, dust-jacket

Very Good Condition, minor edge and shelf wear, previous owners stamp inside front cover, dust-jacket minor edge and shelf wear, minor rubbing to edges and corners, minor markings (see photographs)

"The social background of an age had important influence on the design of its great houses; thus the elegant but comparatively small Palladian villas of the Veneto were as much a product of 16th-century Venetian society as the grand chateaux of the Loire were a reflection of the elaborate French court.
Palladio was the first European architect to seek and achieve an intimate relationship between a building and its landscape, conceived as integrated elements, and it is the evolution of this idea which links and yet contrasts the magnificent villas and palaces described here."