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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.
Most
recently, CPSA in April 2010 conducted a one-day sold-out
tour of Palladianism in New York City.
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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 16-24 September. The tour, modeled on the
sold-out event in 2008 and limited to 30 participants,
is sponsored by Drayton Hall in cooperation with CPSA.
Sold
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Alert!
A one-day tour of Palladianism in Richmond, Virginia,
is now being planned for Saturday, 20 November 2010.
Participation will be limited to 40 persons.
The itinerary and reservation details will be mailed
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Lectures.
CPSA sponsors a regular program of lectures and discussions
with leading authors, scholars and experts on Palladio and
Palladianism.
Most recently, CPSA with the University of Virginia
sponsored a dinner in New York in April 2010 honoring Mario
di Valmarana, a preëminent figure in Palladian studies
in both the United States and Italy. Speakers included
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).
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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, 19 November 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 to attend the historic exhibition "Palladio
and his Legacy: A Transatlantic Journey" at the
Morgan Library in New York through 1 August 2010,
sponsored by the Royal Institute of British Architects
(RIBA) in cooperation with CPSA. This landmark
exhibition features 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.
Alert!
After its Morgan Library appearance in New York, the
exhibition will proceed to the National Building Museum
in Washington, D. C. (17/18 September to 31 December
2010 ); the Milwaukee Art Museum in Milwaukee
(27 January to 1 May 2011); and the Heinz Architectural
Center, Carnegie Museum of Art, in Pittsburgh (29
September to 31 December 2011). |
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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