Meaning of Palladian | Babel Free

Definitions

1. An architect who designs buildings in the Palladian style.
2. A building or an architectural element (for example, a window) designed in the Palladian style.

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“What is quite certain that Georgian Palladianism without him [Colen Campbell] would have⟳ developed later and would have⟳ been quite different, and the legacy of the English Palladians, accepted but rarely acknowledged by their most adventurous but no more dedicated successors, would have⟳ been less rich.”

“[Peter Paul] Rubens' credo could be a rubric for [Joseph] Furttenbach's work⟳. He is not a Palladian like⟳ [Heinrich von] Schickhardt, but takes up Italian Renaissance architecture in a both geographically and temporally broad span, attempting to make⟳ it a model⟳ for Central European requirements.”

“To compound the problem, when the collaborations were over and [Nicholas] Hawksmoor came into his own⟳, as it were, designing six churches by himself, the neo-Palladians were coming into fashion, displacing, and even dismissing, their baroque contemporaries.”

“Anything [i.e., any type⟳ of window] with a rounded top became known as a Palladian and was seen as an instant evocation of history, status, class, and tradition. In some cases, an oversized Palladian filled an entire facade of a house.”

“From the outside, Strokestown House is a most attractive building. [...] And unlike some of the monster Palladians in this country, places like⟳ Castletown or Powerscourt, both near Dublin, Strokestown, being in the uncivilized west, is a far more modest proposition and thereby more appealing and approachable.”

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