Frontispiece in Latin (right) to Andrea Palladio's 'L'Antichita di Roma. Antiquitates Urbis Romae', showing the Sheldonian Theatre, Oxford with the Old Ashmolean Museum to the right and Divinity Schools in the background

SOURCE: Andrea Palladio. L' Antichita di Roma. Antiquitates urbis Romae (Oxford, 1709), frontispiece NOTES: The first edition of Palladio's treatise appeared in 1554. This 1709 edition was edited and translated by Charles Fairfax for Dean Henry Aldrich of Christ Church. The Sheldonian Theatre was designed by Sir Christopher Wren and completed in 1669.