Amelie Rives Rennolds

To grow up in Virginia is to be under the ever present influence of Palladio as interpreted by Thomas Jefferson. Some thirty years after attending Professor James Ackerman’s Palladian architecture lectures in graduate school, I finally made a pilgrimage to the Veneto this summer and saw my first in the flesh Palladian villas:
Villa Rotunda and Villa Barbaro at Maser. They did not disappoint, grand yet almost cozy and inviting, relating each , spectacularly to its particular site .