279 - Palladio, Andrea. *Le fabbriche e i disegni e le terme*. Genoa, Decamilli, Monti e Fontana, 1843–49. A splendid 19th-century edition of this great architectural classic

Palladio, Andrea. *Le fabbriche e i disegni e le terme*. Genoa, Decamilli, Monti e Fontana, 1843–49. A splendid 19th-century edition of this great architectural classic Palladio, Andrea. *Le fabbriche e i disegni e le terme*. Genoa, Decamilli, Monti, and Fontana, 1843–49. 5 folio volumes (457 x 300 mm); [6], 136; [6], 188; [6], 72; [2], 92; XIV, 28 pages. A total of 232 plates (out of 233) folded and separated from the text. Contemporary half-leather bindings with corner pieces, green cloth covers, smooth spines with gold-lettered titles (some slight wear). A critical study of Palladio by Ottavio Bertotti Scamozzi, expanded with commentary and notes by Celestino Foppiani. The volume analyzes the work of the Vicenza-born architect through his buildings and designs, which would exert a lasting influence on European and international architecture. Palladio’s enduring legacy is due not only to the buildings he actually constructed but also to the extraordinary dissemination of his designs through his treatises, which helped establish them as a fundamental reference point for classical architecture and subsequent developments. The work is divided into four sections dedicated to the architectural orders and fundamental problems of architecture, residential construction, public buildings and urban planning, and finally, temples. At the heart of Palladio’s conception lie the models of Roman antiquity, studied through Vitruvius and Alberti and reinterpreted according to a rigorous balance of proportions, harmony, and functionality. A splendid nineteenth-century edition of this architectural classic