Italianate architecture
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The Italianate style was a distinct 19th-century phase in the history of Classical architecture. Like Palladianism and Neoclassicism, the Italianate style combined its inspiration from the models and
Osborne House on the Isle of Wight, England, built between 1845 and 1851. It exhibits three typical Italianate features: a prominently bracketed cornice, towers based on Italian campanili and belvederes, and adjoining arched windows.
Cronkhill, designed by John Nash, the earliest Italianate villa in England
Villa Emo by Palladio, 1559. The great Italian villas were often a starting point for the buildings of the 19th-century Italianate style.
Cliveden: Charles Barry's Italianate, Neo-Renaissance mansion with "confident allusions to the wealth of Italian merchant princes."
Palladian architecture
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Palladian architecture is a European architectural style derived from the work of the Venetian architect Andrea Palladio. What is today recognised as Palladian architecture evolved from his concepts o
Italianate architecture
…The Italianate style was a distinct 19th-century phase in the history of Classical architecture. Like Palladianism and Neoclassicism, the Italianate style combined its inspiration from the models and architectural vocabulary of 16th-century Italian Renaissance…
A villa with a superimposed portico, from Book IV of Palladio's I quattro libri dell'architettura, in an English translation published in London, 1736
Plan for Palladio's Villa La Rotonda (c. 1565) – features of the house were incorporated in numerous Palladian-style houses throughout Europe over the following centuries.
"True Palladianism" at the Villa Godi (1537–1542) – from Palladio's I quattro libri dell'architettura. The flanking pavilions are agricultural buildings, not part of the villa. In the 18th century, the connecting colonnades evolved as enfilades of rooms, while the pavilions often became self-contained wings or blocks – a common feature of 18th century Palladianism.
Villa Capra "La Rotonda" (begun c. 1565) – one of Palladio's most influential designs