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93 — Andrea Palladio 3 — Palladian Palazzi

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The Classical Architecture of Vicenza

Vicenza's not, I mean, it's still quite a prosperous city, but it's not very big. And this feels like- if Catherine the Great was going to build a like pavilion in her garden, it could be like this. It doesn't have any of these plinths and things. But it comes out under the cornice is kind of jagging in and out of the wall. You can see why it didn't though. They should have done a bit more of this stuff.

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