art, music, sculpture, architecture, and in architecture andre palotto synthesizes a hundred years of ideas and gives us the rotunda and basically it is the template for our mansions throughout the early 21st century but he is giving us a wonderful program, a harmony of balance, all of it focused on the port co-the front of a roman temple and how rude we americans when we see a port co-we think the supreme court, the u.s. capitol, a bank, maybe a theater and they thought in the italian renaissance, they understood this is where the gods were worshipped and this was the symbol of the ancient roman god's, not bad an architectural symbol for the nouveau rich of venice and they came home to a house that spoke of the ancient roman gods and it also was a brilliant plan for communicating a beautiful, harmonious and perfectly balanced house and we see the rotunda from the sun and you can see how that portico and staircase, how the element is put to brilliant effect 500 years later by our bose art designers, pola ti o in the 1560s. it humbles you, the whole idea. look what he does by bringing