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CENTER
FOR PALLADIAN STUDIES
IN AMERICA, Inc., provides
its members a vehicle for appreciating and learning more
about how Renaissance architect Andrea Palladio changed
the way the world looks today. CPSA offers a diverse
program for members at all levels of interest and knowledge.
Palladiana.
CPSA publishes Palladiana, a semi-annual journal
of Palladianism scholarship and news of interest to its
members. DETAILS.
Group
Tours.
CPSA regularly organizes educational, reasonably-priced
group tours in America and Europe, including tours to the
Veneto region of Italy to visit the villas, churches and
palaces designed by Palladio himself, and to Germany and
England for examples of European Palladianism.
Tours in America have visited Palladian-inspired houses
and other structures in Rhode Island, Maryland, Virginia,
South Carolina and Louisiana.
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Alert!
A one-day tour of Palladianism in New York City is now
being planned for April 8, 2010. The itinerary
and reservation details will be mailed to CPSA members.
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Alert!
A 9-day pilgrimmage to visit Palladio's own villas and
churches in the Veneto region of Italy is scheduled
for September 16-24.. The tour, modeled on the
sold-out event in 2008 and limited to 30 participants,
is sponsored by Drayton Hall in cooperation with CPSA.
The itinerary and reservation details have been mailed
to CPSA members.
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Alert!
A one-day tour of Palladianism in Richmond, Virginia,
is now being planned for November 20, 2010. The
itinerary and reservation details will be mailed to
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Lectures.
CPSA sponsors a regular program of lectures and discussions
with leading authors, scholars and experts on Palladio and
Palladianism.
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Alert!
CPSA and the University of Virginia will co-sponsor
a dinner at the Yale Club in New York on the evening
of April 8, 2010, honoring Mario di Valmarana, a preëminent
figure in Palladian studies in both the United States
and Italy, for his contributions to both institutions.
Speakers will include John T. Casteen, president of
the University of Virginia; Carl I. Gable, president
of CPSA; and Bruce A. Boucher, author of Andrea
Palladio: The Architect in his Time. Reservation
details will be mailed to CPSA members.
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Alert!
The 17th annual VCU Symposium on Architectural
History and the Decorative Arts, co-sponsored by CPSA,
will be held Friday, November 19, 2010, at the Virginia
Historical Society in Richmond, Virginia. The
program and reservation details will be mailed to CPSA
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Exhibitions.
CPSA presents from time to time, often in cooperation
with other organizations, exhibitions on Palladian and architectural
history topics.
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Alert!
Plan now to attend the historic exhibition "Palladio
and his Legacy: A Transatlantic Journey" at the
Morgan Library in New York from April 2 through August
1, 2010, sponsored by the Royal Institute of British
Architects (RIBA) in cooperation with CPSA. This
landmark exhibition will feature 31 of Palladio's original
drawings from the RIBA collection, together with special
features on the flowering of Palladianism in America.
Further details on the exhibition are contained in
the Spring 2010 issue of Palladiana: Journal of the
Center for Palladian Studies in America, Inc. |
Books.
CPSA publications include the three-volume Building by
the Book series (1984, 1986, 1990), edited by Mario
di Valmarana, and Palladio and America: Selected Papers
Presented to the Andrea Palladio International Center for
Study of Architecture (1997), edited by Christopher
Weeks. DETAILS.
Grants.
Grants have been made in support of other books, exhibitions
and historical studies, including Douglas Lewis' The
Drawings of Andrea Palladio (rev. 2nd ed., 2000) and
Bryan Clark Green's In Jefferson's Shadow: The Architecture
of Thomas R. Blackburn (2006).
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