txt: Endlessly copied, but never bettered - from Guardian Unlimited Art
The results over the next 40 or so years were new civic buildings in Vicenza, the glorious churches of San Giorgio Maggiore and Il Redentore in Venice, but most of all the stupendous series of villas - original, timeless, amazingly beautiful - he built for the gentleman farmers of the Veneto. Just to recite their names and locations is to enter into a reverie of educated paganism: Lonedo, Maser, Fanzolo, Piombino, Dese, Malcontenta, Poiana Maggiore, Finale di Agugliaro, Vancimuglio, Villa Rotonda, Bertesina, Quinto, Lisiera, Caldogno, Montecchio. These designs have been endlessly copied all over the world.img: The Basilica - tanguero on flickr
