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The term “Palladianism” derives from the name of the Italian architect Andrea Palladio. In the second half of the 16th century, Palladio designed many villas for the Venetian elite, and together with his treatise  I quattro libri dell'architettura (“The Four Books on Architecture”), written in 1570, these exerted an influence without parallel in architectural history [5] (Architectural theory). The stylistic principles of Palladianism were: (1) rational geometric proportions in ground plan and elevation; (2) clearly defined building structure; (…

1. TerminologyThe connotations of the term classicism differ among the European nations. In Germany, Klassizismus refers to the epoch in European art from around 1760 to around 1830, an era known in France, Italy, and Britain as neoclassicism, because in those countries it was preceded by national constructs of the European classics and classicism. In literature, the term classicism was first used in the 19th century to denote the comparability of a literary period with Antiquity (Italin  classicismo, 1818; German Klassizismus, 1820; French classicisme, 1823; English classi…