Delight in Disorder

Robert Boyle’s adaptation of Andrea Palladio’s Villa Rotunda, or Villa Capra, is emblematic of an evolution in English aesthetics during the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. Boyle’s Chiswick House closely imitates many features of the Villa Capra, but it also consciously departs from the...

The International Journal of the Arts in Society: Annual Review

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