Compose two styles
Rather than blending two styles into a middle, this assigns them roles: one carries the structure, the other appears as an accent. Where the two fight, it says so before you start.
How to divide the work
- Composition
- Follow Italian Renaissance Garden: Cut the slope into terraces with stair and channel on one axis
- Type
- Set in Italian Renaissance Garden's manner (Assign a theme to each terrace, rising in rank as you climb), and let Palladianism's lettering (Roman capitals cut into the frieze and sized to the depth of its band) appear only where you want the eye to catch.
- Material
- Ground in Italian Renaissance Garden's material (Move water by fall alone, keeping rough stone and its green stain); bring in exactly one thing from Palladianism (White stone or render, columns and wall one color, form read from shadow).
- Colour
- Build on #e9e6dd, #67635d, #171615 and admit one accent from #e9e6dd, #67635d, #171615.
Where they fight
- Roughly 1535 years apart. Keep one of them recognisably period rather than letting both drift into the middle.
Caution
- Italian Renaissance Garden Fountains get placed as ornament while the head and the flow rate are left for later, so nothing moves and the terraces are only stone.
- Palladianism Sticking columns and a pediment onto the front while the plan behind stays asymmetrical, which reduces the whole style to a facing board.
Image prompt
An original image that takes its structure from Italian Renaissance Garden (Style, 15th–17th century) and its accent from Palladianism (Style, 1550s– / 17th–18th century revival). Structural cues: Terraced slopes; Water stairs and fountains; Axes and statuary; Designed prospects. Accent cues, used sparingly: Temple-front portico; Strict symmetry; Plans from proportion; Central dome. Composition: Cut the slope into terraces with stair and channel on one axis. Type and lettering: Assign a theme to each terrace, rising in rank as you climb. Let one material quality come from the second style: White stone or render, columns and wall one color, form read from shadow. Mood: Luxury, Exhilaration, Technology, Trust, Calm. Color: build on #e9e6dd, #67635d, #171615 with a single accent drawn from #e9e6dd, #67635d, #171615. Constraints: do not imitate, reference or name any specific artist, studio, brand, character or copyrighted work. Produce an original composition in the general period languages described above.
Related entries
- Italian Renaissance Garden 15th–17th century / Style / Garden Styles
The Renaissance garden of terraced slopes, stairs, channels and fountains. The hundred fountains of the Villa d'Este are the engineering art of water, with gravity as the design material.
- Palladianism 1550s– / 17th–18th century revival / Style / Historical Styles
Palladio distilled proportion, the temple front and strict symmetry from Roman antiquity into a formula for the villa. His Four Books carried it to Britain and America, where it became the archetypal correct face of public architecture.
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