12 Facts About Palladian

Palladian architecture is a European architectural style derived from the work of the Venetian architect Andrea Palladio .

Palladian style was widely utilised throughout Europe, often in response to English influences.

The Palladian style was adopted in other British colonies, including those in the Indian subcontinent.

Palladian was inspired by Roman buildings, the writings of Vitruvius, and his immediate predecessors Donato Bramante and Raphael.

Palladian's surviving buildings are in Venice, Veneto region, and Vicenza, and include villas and churches such as the Basilica del Redentore in Venice.

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Palladian villas are usually built with three floors: a rusticated basement or ground floor, containing the service and minor rooms; above this, the piano nobile, accessed through a portico reached by a flight of external steps, containing the principal reception and bedrooms; and lastly a low mezzanine floor with secondary bedrooms and accommodation.

Palladian designs advocated by Jones were too closely associated with the court of Charles I to survive the turmoil of the English Civil War.

Palladian was a cousin of Sir John Vanbrugh, and originally one of his pupils.

Palladian rejected the Baroque style, and spent three years studying architecture in France and Italy before returning to Ireland.

In Virginia and Carolina, the Palladian style is found in numerous plantation houses, such as Stratford Hall, Westover Plantation and Drayton Hall.

Palladian studied architecture in Dublin, where Leinster House was one of the finest Palladian buildings of the time.

Term Palladian is often misused in modern discourse and tends to be used to describe buildings with any classical pretensions.