User:Hryck/Villa La Rotonda/Bibliography

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Outline of proposed changes
Inspiration

- Villa Emo as a predecessor for the Villa Rotonda: changed the use of porticos for architectural purposes: no longer for agricultural needs, more for ornamentation. They retain the shape and stylistic reference of traditional porticos but lack the utility of previous versions.

Design

- also traced back to Venetian Terraferma villa architecture which was marked by three major characteristics: porticos, dovecot towers, and a ramp to the main entrance.

-the use of porticos in Villa architecture can be traced back to pre-Palladian architecture, as they were codified by Giuseppe Falcone before Palladio was even a part of the profession.

- porticos can have multiple functions but the main few are protection for people, animals, and produce from the natural elements, storage for agricultural tools, and storage for agricultural produce.

-Dovecots are also adapted in use for the Villa Rotonda as compared to their original employment. They originally signaled visually that a villa was a "self sufficient entity" and provided shelter for birds in inclement weather.

-Despite the influence from prior Palladio projects and Venetian Villa architecture, the Villa Rotonda is seen as "an architectural manifestation hitherto unknown".

- Scholars have created three views of the building from which it can be analyzed. That seen in Palladio's I quattro libri dell'architettura, originally drawn and designed by the architect. Another is its first completion, which most closely reflects the original drawings. The final version is the Villa as it stands now, with all of the alterations made by architects and owners following Palladio's time.

- the facade recalls ancient domestic architecture, and Palladio believed that in reviving this form, it would bring back "ancient origins of sacred form"

-though the four facades are near identical, it is apparent that the northeast and southeast facing facades were slightly priviledged as evidenced by their ascents to the building having the most apparent use as seen in the pattern of use in the grass.

- circles represented things of the heavenly realm, while squares represented earth, the elements, and the cardinal directions.

Landscape

- the structure is located near the river Bacchiglione which separated the villa from the city Vincenza

Current conditions

- as the Villa was worked on by numerous other architects throughout the centuries, it is not known exactly which details were included in the original plan and vision of Palladio and which were added by the subsequent architects and owners.