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Palladio, Andrea
- A sixteenth-century Italian architect. In works such as San Giorgio Maggiore in Venice and the Villa Rotonda in Vicenza, he incorporated elements of classical Roman architecture and broke sharply with the ornate Renaissance style. His treatise Four Books of Architecture was especially influential to the designs of Christopher Wren in England .
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The altar in the midst of the great hall is the only work of Andrea Palladio in Rome.
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Andrea Palladio, a very distinguished Italian architect, died; many specimens of his designs yet remain.
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