The Renaissance architect Andrea Palladio was one of the most influential figures that the field of architecture has ever produced. For classical architects, the term Palladian stands for a vocabulary of architectural forms embodying perfection and beauty. Of even greater significance than Palladio's buildings is his treatise I quattro libri dell'architettura (The Four Books On Architecture), the most successful architectural treatise of the Renaissance and one of the two or three most important books in the literature of architecture. First published in Italian in 1570, it has been translated into every major Western language.
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The Four Books of Architecture is a treatise on architecture, which also means an essay or book that has evidence, facts, and conclusions. The first section details the techniques and materials of building elements. The second one encloses villa and private home designs, all designed by Palladio himself. City planning is explained in his third book and the fourth comprises five chapters that enclose church and temple design.
Many architects, as noted, wrote books on their subject. Alberti's On Building (De Re Aedificatoria) came out in Latin in 1452 and then in the Tuscan vernacular in 1456. Alberti catalogued the defining principles of classical architecture and noted how these might be applied to contemporary Renaissance buildings. He emphasised the need for buildings to be visible from all sides, that the designer should equally consider the interior and exterior, and they should be impressive both in size and appearance. The book became a sort of architect's bible, even more so when it was printed in 1485 as Ten Books on Architecture. Justifiably, Alberti became known as the 'Florentine Vitruvius'. Alberti's work also began a wider discussion on the role of architecture in society, the relation of a building's design to its function, and got people talking about architecture who were not directly involved in that field.
In 1556 Palladio provided a series of illustrations for a new edition of his hero Vitruvius' On Architecture and then made his own contribution to the growing Renaissance library with his Four Books of Architecture (1570). Immediately popular with architects, the work was translated into several other European languages, including four editions in English between 1663 and 1738. The work considers materials, the classical orders, domestic and public buildings, and provides reconstructions of Roman temples. The books helped spread Palladio's ideas on architecture because although they focussed on classical architecture, the author often used his own designs to illustrate the descriptions.
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