I Quattro Libri Dell'architettura (The Four Books of Architecture)

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I Quattro Libri Dell'architettura (The Four Books of Architecture)

Artist Andrea Palladio (Italian, 1508-1580)

Publisher Domenico de Franceschi , Venice

Date1570

DimensionsH: 11 1/2 (29.2 cm); W: 8 1/2 in. (21.6 cm)

MediumWood engravings and letterpress text

ClassificationBooks

Credit LineGift of The Georgia Welles Apollo Society

Object number

2009.25

Not on View

Label TextIn 2009 The Apollo Society acquired for the Museum a seminal 16th-century treatise that had been coveted by the Museum’s first director, George W. Stevens: Andrea Palladio’s Four Books of Architecture. Palladio is often considered the most influential architect in Western history, inspiring the redesign of London after the great fire of 1666 and much Colonial architecture, including Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello. The “Four Books” codified theories of proportion and design that Palladio developed, in part, through the study of the classical architecture of Rome. The spectacular illustrations that appear on almost every page were recognized immediately as the work of a master and they, along with Palladio’s concise text, made the book an invaluable, and enduring, resource.Exhibition History

Toledo Museum of Art, Inspired Giving: The Apollo Society 25th Anniversary Exhibition, October 15, 2010-February 13, 2011, p. 45, repr. (col.) p. 45.

Toledo Museum of Art, Looks Good on Paper: Masterworks and Favorites, Oct. 10, 2014-Jan. 11, 2015.

Toledo Museum of Art, Gifts on Paper from The Apollo Society, Apr. 10-May 31, 2015.