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93 — Andrea Palladio 3 — Palladian Palazzi

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The Rusticated Lower Level of the Manchuar Palace

In contrast to Romano, like Romano is interested in lots of things which I'm not sure Palladio was really into a kind of theatrical use of mass and weight. The way he does rustication is with these like super thin but very long pieces, feels weirdly like medieval almost. And the compositions are much more the generating of kind of painterly images. They're painterly images of ruins, all kind of grottos.

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