remember a donald trump in the venice of the 1400s and 1500s you would have your house outside of vicenza, and this is one of the most famous houses to come out of the 16th century, the villa of tundra, and it represents a new idea of architecture coming of age in europe in the 15th and 16th century, basically the neoclassical system to put it in a nutshell was all about perfection. neoclassical designers said, okay, like is irrational, it is difficult, it is stressful, everybody is driving you crazy, even without iphones everybody is still driving you crazy and when you went home for the weekend and you came off the main road and you came off the driveway and you looked at this beautifully harmonious unified perfectly balanced building, you felt like you had fallen into heaven and that was the whole idea. the neoclassicist said you could have heaven on earth and you don't have to die to get there. you could have heaven on earth and do it through art. art, music, sculpture, architecture, and in architecture andre palotto synthesizes a hundred years of ideas and gives us the rotunda and ba