This document discusses Andrea Palladio's influential architectural works and designs. It focuses on Palladio's 1570 publication "The Four Books on Architecture" and some of his most famous villas including Villa Barbaro built in 1555-1559 and Villa Rotonda built from 1566-1570. Villa Rotonda is described through images and diagrams of its design elements like proportions, plans, sections, interiors and surrounding gardens.

1. Palladio

2. I Quattro Libri dell’Architettura (The Four Books on Architecture), Venice 1570

3. Palladian Church

4. Villa Barbaro (principal facade) Maser, Italy. Andrea Palladio. 1555-59.

5. VILLA ROTONDA (or Villa Capra), Vicenza, 1566-70, for Paolo Almerico Villa Rotonda, 1570 Vicenza, Italy

6. Villa Rotonda, aerial

7. Villa Rotonda, Site plan

8. Villa Rotonda, in the garden

9. Formal gardens

10. Villa Rotonda, elevation

11. Villa Rotonda, elevation, ratios

12. Villa Rotonda, plan

13. Villa Rotonda, Plan, ratios

14. Villa Rotonda, section

15. Villa Rotonda, interior frescos

16. Villa Rotonda, interior dome

17. Villa Rotonda, interior