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Murray (1847b) p.287 draws attention to the importance of Palladio to Vicenza:
Vicenza is of great antiquity, but possesses no Roman remains, and les than the usual average of structures of the middle ages. This is much owing to the influence of Palladio (b. 1518, d. 1580) in his native town; and of those architects who more or less followed his school.
Murray then uses material drawn from Woods (1828) I pp.238f. For both “the Gothic architecture of Vicenza is of little value”.
Woods wrote:
My object in stopping at Vicenza was to examine the buildings of Palladio, the first of modern architects.
Palladio’s columns are “mostly mere ornaments”, “but in contemplating his buildings it is impossible to feel this to be a fault”. Woods draws attention to the poor state of the buildings but asks: ‘What is it that pleases so much, and so universally in the works of this artist?’ He concludes that it must be:
justness of proportion, with which he has distributed all the parts of his architecture...He has not adopted the theoretical rules of another, but has drawn them all from what he felt to be pleasing to himself, and suited to his own style of art.
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