Palladian
Symmetrical columned style
Palladian describes architecture inspired by the 16th-century Italian architect Andrea Palladio, characterized by symmetry, classical columns, triangular pediments, and harmonious proportions.
The style spread through Europe and America, influencing grand country houses and public buildings: The mansion's Palladian windows dominated the facade.
Thomas Jefferson's Monticello exemplifies Palladian design in America.
Stately country residence
- porticoColumned covered entryway
- columnsUpright structural shafts
- pedimentTriangular architectural crowning element
- symmetryInvariance under transformation
proportion · Vitruvius · rotunda · loggia · façade · entablature · pilaster · arcade
Of four kings' era
- Thomas JeffersonThird American president
- MonticelloVirginia presidential estate
- English country houseGrand rural residence of gentry
- Federal styleEarly American neoclassical architecture
Agreement or musical blend
- proportionComparative relation of parts
- symmetryInvariance under transformation
- balanceSteadiness or amount owed
- eleganceRefined, graceful quality
refinement · serenity · order · geometry · axis · centrality · regularity · idealized
Italian city in Veneto
- quattrocentoItalian fifteenth century
- High RenaissanceItalian art's zenith period
- frescoWet plaster painting technique
- perspectiveAttitude or spatial rendering
classical revival · humanist · patronage · treatise · architectural drawings
villa
Stately country residence
- porticoColumned covered entryway
- columnsUpright structural shafts
- pedimentTriangular architectural crowning element
symmetry · proportion · Vitruvius · rotunda · loggia · façade · entablature · pilaster · arcade · capitals
Georgian
Of four kings' era
- Thomas JeffersonThird American president
- MonticelloVirginia presidential estate
- English country houseGrand rural residence of gentry
Inigo Jones · Federal style · plantation house · stately home · revival
harmony
Agreement or musical blend
- proportionComparative relation of parts
- symmetryInvariance under transformation
- balanceSteadiness or amount owed
elegance · refinement · serenity · order · geometry · axis · centrality · regularity · idealized · golden ratio
Vicenza
Italian city in Veneto
- quattrocentoItalian fifteenth century
- High RenaissanceItalian art's zenith period
- frescoWet plaster painting technique
perspective · classical revival · humanist · patronage · treatise · architectural drawings
- 1700sMozart, Voltaire, colonial period, French Revolution, William III
- architecture stylesart deco, Art Nouveau, minimalism, modernism, Modernism
- British Architecturemanor house, terraced house, terraced houses, semi-detached, detached house
- historic architectureVersailles, Blenheim Palace, Hampton Court, Monticello, Mount Vernon
- home stylescolonial, craftsman, ranch, Victorian, Tudor
- architectural stylesArt Nouveau, Baroque, Bauhaus, brutalist, Byzantine
PalladianBaroque
Ornate artistic period
Rococo · Art Nouveau · Romanesque · Expressionist · Byzantine
Palladianornate
Elaborately decorated
asymmetrical · irregular · chaotic · exuberant · irrational
- Palladian styleRenaissance-inspired symmetrical architecture