Editorial Reviews
Traditional Home, September 2005
For armchair travelers, try Italian watercolorist Giovanni Giaconi's beautifully illustrated VILLAS OF PALLADIO, which includes descriptions of each villa.
Book Description
His sixteenth-century villas in the Italian Veneto revolutionized the course of architecture, and the principles on which he based his work are still used today. For the past several years, Italian water colorist Giovanni Giaconi has devoted his talents to creating exquisite large-format pen-and-ink watercolor renderings of all thirty-two of Palladio's villas. Each drawing captures the timeless beauty of Palladian architecture and provides a detailed record of these masterpieces. Together with brief descriptions of each villa, samples of Giaconi's preparatory sketches, and Palladio's own woodcuts, these works of art leave a deep impression of Palladio's oeuvre and give the reader an opportunity to compare the original designs with the actual buildings and their present state of conservation. Giovanni Giaconi is an artist and designer Living in Vicenza.
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