Travel & Experiences
The classical revival in architecture began in Renaissance Italy, but its wide-ranging influence can be seen everywhere, from Buckingham Palace to Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello, George Washington’s Mt.
Nov. 4, 2002
Entertainment & Arts
Andrea Palladio’s balanced villa has had a wide populist power. But architectural borrowing isn’t always a positive force.
Nov. 30, 2008
Business
When Swiss tennis pro Roger Federer signed an endorsement deal with Rolex in 2006, who would have expected that it would change the face of the fabled St.
July 6, 2008
Archives
If the 16th-Century classical Roman architect Andrea Palladio was asked to design a kitchen for the post 20th-Century starship Enterprise, it might look something like the one in this year’s Kips Bay decorator show house in New York.
July 22, 1990
The Renaissance was an extremely creative time which began in Italy in the 14th century and continued throughout Europe for the next 300 years.
Aug. 24, 1998
Palladian Days Finding a New Life in a Venetian Country House Sally Gable with Carl I. Gable Alfred A. Knopf: 274 pp., $23.95
July 18, 2005
Books
“The California Highway 1 Book” by Rick Adams and Louise McCorkle depicts America’s most romantic road.
Dec. 8, 1985
The Venetian Doge, back in 1577, called for a celebration to mark the end of a three-year plague that had killed 50,000 citizens--about one-fourth of the population.
Aug. 20, 1989
Since the day in history’s mist when a farmer, Romulus perhaps, marked the perimeter for the city’s first walls, Rome has been a prototype for models, materials and dreams adapted by builders of later civilizations for their own needs.
May 30, 1995
Do you know the Monuments Men?
June 13, 2014