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Article: Palladian games: the 500th anniversary of Palladio's birth is rightly being celebrated, but his influence on architects has in many ways been pernicious.(ARCHITECTURE)(Andrea Palladio )
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'In architecture Palladio is the game!!' wrote Edwin Lutyens in a much-quoted letter to Herbert Baker in 1903. Having made his name with romantic vernacular houses, Lutyens was then discovering the possibilities of the Classical language and revelling in the geometrical and formal discipline it could impose. As be would soon demonstrate in New Delhi and elsewhere, he would handle that language with astonishing originality - playing games and bending the rules. But in fact Palladio was not a major influence on Lutyens, and in Italy (which he visited for the first time only in 1909) he was much more impressed by the Mannerism of Sanmichele in Verona.
Sanmichele, ...
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