Character of Renaissance ArchitectureMoore, Charles Herbert
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Character of Renaissance Architecture
Moore, Charles Herbert
Architecture, Renaissance
Classic inspiration in the Renaissance, 4, 97, 119.
Classic models, the classic style which was followed in the
Renaissance was that of the decadent Greek schools as
represented in Roman copies, 4, 247;
misuse of, 33, 84.
Claudian aqueduct, 106.
Coffering, Roman, in interior of church of Sant’Andrea of Mantua,
39.
Colonnade of Bramante’s scheme for St. Peter’s dome, 51, 56.
Columns, small, free-standing, placed by Sansovino on each side of
the pier to bear the archivolt, 123, 130;
often spoken of as an innovation of Sansovino and Palladio, but
instances of it occur in Græco-Roman architecture of Syria,
131 (cut);
peculiar form of, claimed by De l’Orme as his own invention,
201–206 (cut);
practically the same column occurs in Serlio’s book, 203 (cut);
an ancient adumbration of this form occurs in the Porta Maggiore,
Rome, 205;
other Italian examples of the same column, 205, 206;
mention of its use in England, 221, 222, 229;
notion that the Ionic order was designed after female
proportions, 207.
Communal spirit of the Middle Ages, 4, 5.
Como, cathedral, 144–149 (cuts);
description of exterior, 144;
details are mediæval Lombard modified by neo-classic elements,
144;
portals, illogical use of arch and entablature in, 144, 145
(cuts), 149;
window openings, variety of illogical forms in, 148 (cut);
tapering jamb shafts, 149.
Consoles, reversed over the aisle compartments of an exterior, 37,
74, 95.
Constantinople, Hagia Theotokos, dome, 10 (cut);
church of St. Sophia, dome mentioned, 10.
Conventionalization of forms in relief carving of the Renaissance,
168 (cut).
Corinthian capitals, 84.
Corner pilasters, 78–81 (cut).
Cornice, of St. Peter’s, Rome, dwarfs the effect of altitude, 68,
92;
breaking of, 93–95 (cut).
Cosimo de’ Medici, 103, 110.
Court, circular, of Vignola, influences De l’Orme and Jones in
building the courts of the Tuileries and Whitehall, 130, 131.
Cunningham, _The Lives of the Most Eminent British Painters,
Sculptors, and Architects_, 217^2, 226 ff.;
quoted on the unsubstantial structures of the Renaissance in
England, 217.
De l’Orme, Philibert, _Le Premier Tome de l’Architecture_, 200^2
ff., 209;
a man with little artistic genius, 200, 209;
overestimated by Viollet le Duc, 200^1, 207^3;
Adolphe Berty on, 200^1;
studied the antique in Rome, 200;
his work on the Tuileries, 200–207 (cut);
peculiar form of column claimed by him as his own invention,
201–206 (cut);
his doorway, with use of the peculiar column, 203 (cut);
description of doorway quoted from his book, 209 (cut).
Delaborde, Viscount, quoted, 7^3.
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