{"product_id":"the-villas-of-pliny-from-antiquity-to-posterity","title":"The Villas of Pliny from Antiquity to Posterity","description":"\u003cp\u003ePierre de la Ruffinire du Prey traces the influence of Pliny the Younger as a continuous theme throughout the history of architecture. First he looks at what Pliny considered to be the essential qualities of a villa. He then discusses the many buildings Pliny inspired: from the Renaissance estates of the Medici  to papal summer residences near Rome  to Thomas Jeffersons Monticello  and the home of former Canadian prime minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau. Equally important to du Preys study are the many designs by architects past and present that remain on paper. These imaginary restitutions of Plinys villas  each representative of its own epoch  trace in microcosm the evolution of the classical tradition in domestic architecture. In analyzing each project  du Prey illuminates the work of such great masters as Michelozzo  Raphael  Palladio  and Schinkel  as well as such well-known modern architects as Lon Krier  Jean-Pierre Adam  and Thomas Gordon Smith.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44964887134261,"sku":"ByrdShop_0226173003","price":92.75,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780226173009.jpg?v=1770483589","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-villas-of-pliny-from-antiquity-to-posterity","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}