The Villa: Form and Ideology of Country Houses by James S. Ackerman

The Villa: Form and Ideology of Country Houses

The A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts

James S. Ackerman

304 pages first pub 1990 (editions)

nonfiction challenging informative reflective medium-paced
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In The Villa, James Ackerman explores villa building in the West from ancient Rome to twentieth-century France and America. In this wide-ranging book, he illuminates such topics as the early villas of the Medici, the rise of the Palladian villa in...

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