
92 — Andrea Palladio 2 — Greatest Villas
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Is It a Pediment, or a Temple?
This one is very clever and is really successfully resolving. There's just so many things done to add energy to it. The big ones are, what are these things suggesting? At a really obvious level, thing coming slightly out of a surface kind of suggest something within. I haven't quite resolved what i think about these funny little blocks. They feel like the funny little temple on the front of medit de medici villa. But lots of people were doing them, so there must be something to it. Those are different suggested interiors. This hall is kind of strange. It's across two floors. Has he really put six windows on one small wall of the inside of one room
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