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92 — Andrea Palladio 2 — Greatest Villas

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Probably in the Mid 15 Fifties, or in the 15 Sixties?

Peladio was working on an illustrated edition of vetruvius yat one of the great like publishing when he met barbara. He is brought in to help illustrate, aa, a work where the illustrations were lost in antiquity. There are maybe two or three complete villas of this type, an this is probably the most famous. They just built this ye as in, it wasn't paused for years. It wasn't left half finished. You've got a central block, which isn't much higher than the wings, but protrudes quite a way out of it. It's richly decorated with arched logia and dovecuts.

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