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92 — Andrea Palladio 2 — Greatest Villas

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The Cube and the Temple Fronts

This is another villa based on the cube. The way in which the elevations shift as you go round are quite strange. And then, even more than cornaro, a kind of layering collage and sort of integration, in a very novel way, of classical elements,. Things taken from roman buildings. Shall we talk about temple fronts? I mean, i feelk, the own stuff that is so obvious, dont necessarily say it. We we haven't said it. But, i mean, so, prior to this time, people had been putting temple fronts on buildings a bit yet - although not for very long.

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