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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 .
Neo-Palladianism takes its name from Andrea Palladio (1508-1580), a sixteenth century Venetian architect who, like many during the Renaissance, was inspired by ancient Greek and Roman buildings.
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 ...
Neo-Palladian architecture was being employed at the Hanoverian Court at this time in the form of a proto neo-Palladian orangery, and any visitor to the Court would have been exposed to this as well as to other neo-Palladian building projects in Hanover.16 Of course, Benson was not alone in visiting Germany in advance of George being crowned king.
