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In the 18th century they became an important part of Palladianism-see photograph of Woburn Abbey below.Д«uildings entirely designed by Palladio are all in Venice and the Veneto, with an especially rich grouping of palazzi in Vicenza, vaunted now in guidebooks as Palladio's City. The extending wings are agricultural buildings and are not part of the villa. 'True Palladianism' in Villa Godi by Palladio from the Quattro Libri dell'Architettura. However, as an architectural style it has continued to be popular and to evolve its pediments, symmetry and proportions are clearly evident in the design of many modern buildings today.

From the latter half of the 19th century it was rivalled by the Gothic revival, whose champions, such as Augustus Pugin, remembering the origins of Palladianism in ancient temples, deemed it too pagan for Protestant and Anglo-Catholic worship. The style continued to be popular in Europe throughout the 19th and early 20th centuries, where it was frequently employed in the design of public and municipal buildings. Later when the style was falling from favour in Europe, it had a surge in popularity throughout the British colonies in North America, highlighted by examples such as Drayton Hall in South Carolina, the Redwood Library in Newport, Rhode Island, the Morris-Jumel Mansion in New York City and Thomas Jefferson's Monticello and Poplar Forest in Virginia. In the early 18th century it returned to fashion, not only in England but also in many other European countries. Palladianism became popular briefly in Britain during the mid-17th century. It continued to develop until the end of the 18th century. From the 17th century Palladio's interpretation of this classical architecture was adapted as the style known as Palladianism.

Palladio's work was strongly based on the symmetry, perspective and values of the formal classical temple architecture of the Ancient Greeks and Romans. The term 'Palladian' normally refers to buildings in a style inspired by Palladio's own work that which is recognised as Palladian architecture today is an evolution of Palladio's original concepts. Palladian architecture is a European style of architecture derived from the designs of the Venetian architect Andrea Palladio (1508вЂ“1580). A villa with a superimposed portico, from Book IV of Palladio's I Quattro Libri dell'Architettura, in a modestly priced English translation published in London, 1736.

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