TY  - BOOK
AU  - Ackerman,James S.
TI  - The Villa: Form and Ideology of Country Houses 
T2  - The A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts
SN  - 9780691252322
AV  - NA7560 .A34 1990eb
U1  - 728.8 22
PY  - 2023///]
CY  - Princeton, NJ : 
PB  - Princeton University Press, 
KW  - Country homes
KW  - ARCHITECTURE / History / General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Austen, Jane
KW  - Avezzano: relief from 8
KW  - Bembo, Pietro
KW  - Boyle, Richard
KW  - Burlington, Richard Boyle
KW  - Campania
KW  - Canaletto
KW  - Cato
KW  - Claude Lorrain
KW  - Daly, César
KW  - Horace
KW  - James, Henry
KW  - Jefferson, Thomas
KW  - Laurentinum
KW  - Le Corbusier
KW  - Monet, Claude
KW  - Monticello, Va
KW  - Pembroke
KW  - Pliny the Younger
KW  - Poliziano, Angelo
KW  - Pope, Alexander
KW  - Rome
KW  - Schinkel, Karl Friedrich
KW  - Shaftesbury
KW  - Thomson, James
KW  - Tivoli: Hadrian’s villa
KW  - Turner, Joseph Mallord William
KW  - Tusci
KW  - Varro, Marcus Terentius
KW  - Virgil
KW  - Vitruvius
KW  - Wharton, Edith
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Foreword --; 1 The Typology of the Villa --; 2 The Ancient Roman Villa --; 3 The Early Villas of the Medici --; 4 Palladio's Villas and their Predecessors --; 5 The Image of Country Life in Sixteenth-Centilry Villa Books --; Appendix The Advantages of Villa Life --; 6 The Palladian Villa in England --; 7 The Landscape Garden --; 8 Thomas Jefferson --; 9 The Picturesque --; 10 Andrew Jackson Downing and the American Romantic Villa --; 11 The Modern Villa: Wright and Le Corbusier --; Postscript --; Notes --; Sources of Illustrations --; Index; restricted access
N2  - A classic account of the villa—from ancient Rome to the twentieth century—by “the preeminent American scholar of Italian Renaissance architecture” (Architect’s Newspaper)In The Villa, James Ackerman explores villa building in the West from ancient Rome to twentieth-century France and America. In this wide-ranging book, he illuminates such topics as the early villas of the Medici, the rise of the Palladian villa in England, and the modern villas of Frank Lloyd Wright and Le Corbusier. Ackerman uses the phenomenon of the “country place” as a focus for examining the relationships between urban and rural life, between building and the natural environment, and between architectural design and social, cultural, economic, and political forces. “The villa,” he reminds us, “accommodates a fantasy which is impervious to reality.” As city dwellers idealized country life, the villa, unlike the farmhouse, became associated with pleasure and asserted its modernity and status as a product of the architect’s imagination
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9780691252322?locatt=mode:legacy
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780691252322
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780691252322/original
ER  -