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
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
English Baroque architecture
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English Baroque is a term used to refer to modes of English architecture that paralleled Baroque architecture in continental Europe between the Great Fire of London and roughly 1720, when the flamboya
Palladian architecture
…development faltered at the onset of the English Civil War. After the Stuart Restoration, the architectural landscape was dominated by the more flamboyant English Baroque. Palladianism returned to fashion after a reaction against the Baroque in the early 18th century, fuelled by the publication of a number of architectural…
St Paul's Cathedral by Sir Christopher Wren, 1674–1711
Seaton Delaval Hall by Sir John Vanbrugh, 1718.
Castle Howard by Vanbrugh and Nicholas Hawksmoor, 1701.
James Gibbs' St Martin-in-the-Fields, London, is the prototype of many New England churches.