age amphitheater, in which with a framing like that theseats rose in tiers, could of a picture. Such is in accommodate a large num- brief the development of ber of spectators. A thea- the modern theater. ter with a radius of three Palladio (1518-1580) was hundred feet could seat probably a native… … Palladio died before the theater ot Vicenza was com- ?(t^ W« HI ing a large open space, the room could be only forty or pleted, and it was finished, though not altogether fifty teet wide, and only six hundred to one thousand PLAN OF THE OLYMPIAN THEATEB AT VICENZA. after the original design, by his…
