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Irish Palladian architecture. Castletown House (1722) – an Irish Palladian house where the wings flank, but are separate from the house and are joined by colonnades, closely following Palladio's approach. During the Palladian revival period in Ireland, even modest mansions were cast in a neo-Palladian mould.
- Chiswick House
Chiswick House is a Neo-Palladian style villa in the...
- Chiswick House
Chiswick House is a Neo-Palladian style villa in the Chiswick district of London, England. A "glorious" [1] example of Neo-Palladian architecture in west London , the house was designed and built by Richard Boyle, 3rd Earl of Burlington (1694–1753), and completed in 1729.
It was commissioned by the de facto first British Prime Minister, Sir Robert Walpole, in 1722, and is a key building in the history of Neo-Palladian architecture in England. It is a Grade I listed building surrounded by 1,000 acres (4.0 km 2 ) of parkland, and is a few miles from Sandringham House .
This architectural style is called neo-Palladianism, and in Britain, it reached the height of its popularity between 1715 and 1760, with a particular peak in the 1720s. Tell-tale signs of neo-Palladian buildings are their perfect symmetry and their temple fronts (triangular roof pediments supported by columns, like in the image above).
Neo-Palladian Architecture and its Political Association: The Contribution of Venice to Eighteenth-Century British Art Patrizia Granziera The influence of Palladio on eighteenth-century English architecture is well known and supported by a vast literature.1 Yet the reasons why many English
Extract. Nicholas Hawksmoor is usually seen as the antithesis of the English neo-Palladians. The unprecedented originality of Christ Church, Spitalfields, and St George-in-the-East has little in common with the carefully derived compositions of Colen Campbell or Lord Burlington. Lord Shaftesbury, often seen as the harbinger of neo-Palladianism ...
In the colonies of America, the Neo-Palladian vocabulary influenced Thomas Jefferson’s home and retreat outside of Charlottesville, Virginia, called Monticello (1769–84, 1796–1809), and informed the design of Drayton Hall (ca. 1738–42), built at the center of a rice plantation on the banks of the Ashley River near Charleston, South Carolina.
