Palladian
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- adjective
- /pəˈleɪdiən/
- Specialized
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palladiano
- Whether it is the design and proportion of the Great Masters, or the contrapuntal forms of Bach, or the layout of an Elizabethan sonnet, or the Palladian style of architecture, balance and symmetry are firmly established as classical virtues.
- Palladian style
- Palladian windows
- Palladian villa
Examples
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Academic text (2012) -
The house is white with long green shutters, simple columns across the front, and a brown gabled roof with dormer windows on either side of an elegant Palladian window.
Fiction book (2002) -
Not saying it can't be used, but Palladian can really pop.
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Yeah, well, double-height entry... ...and Maureen had to have Palladian windows, so we put those in.
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But in the old Palladian manner, the stucco in the original Berlin houses had been artfully polished and incised to suggest great blocks of stone, and the windows had been surrounded.
Academic text (1992) -
Walpole's employment of the Gothic becomes a statement of his "high camp defiance of normal conventions," thus emphasizing his denial of the Palladian idiom, which was employed in no less significant an architectural statement than his father.
Academic text (2013) -
In effect, they have returned to the archetypes and constants that underlie Canonic Classicism, those that are familiar to everyone who has looked at a Poussin or strolled through a Palladian house.
Academic text (1995) -
Having outgrown its original Elizabethan site by the mid-nineteenth century, the school had been resited on Dulwich Common, within a comparatively large, brand new building of red brick and white stone, designed in a hybrid of Palladian and Gothic styles by the younger Charles Barry, whose father had built the Houses of Parliament.
Fiction book (1999) -
Unlike previous experiments in the style that employed the Gothic as an ornamental vocabulary to adorn what were traditional Palladian structures, such as William Kent's Esher Palace (which has been called Palladian Gothic), 106
Academic text (2013) -
The grand estate featured a stunning Palladian façade that captivated all who visited.
Synonyms
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Showing styles from ancient Greek and Roman art in modern buildings or paintings
A style that has calm shapes and clear balance like ancient Greek or Roman art
How Classical
Surface Forms
Morphology
Palladian = Palladio (semi-transparent) = Palladio + an
Formed by the regular adjectival suffix '-an' added to the proper name Palladio, producing a standard 'relating to Palladio' meaning.
Etymology
Palladian comes from the name of the Italian architect Palladio, who used ideas from ancient Roman buildings, with big columns, simple shapes and careful balance. So a Palladian building is 'classical', balanced and grand.