Character of Renaissance ArchitectureMoore, Charles Herbert
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Character of Renaissance Architecture
Moore, Charles Herbert
Architecture, Renaissance
Lombard Romanesque, style modified by neo-classic elements mark the
Renaissance architecture of northern Italy, 144;
a porch which forms a model from which an illogical Renaissance
portal is derived, 145 (cuts).
Lombardi, the, 149;
architectural carving of, 169 (plate).
Lombardo, Martino, Scuola di San Marco, Venice, façade, 156.
Lombardo, Pietro, 149;
ch. of Santa Maria dei Miracole, Venice, 151 (cut);
Palazzo Corner-Spinelli, Venice, 160 (plate).
Lombardo, Tullio, 149;
ch of San Salvatore, Venice, 150.
London, St. Paul’s cathedral, west front of old structure by Inigo
Jones, 230, 232 (cut);
Wren ordered to submit designs for the restoration of, 234;
his drawings for the new structure, 235–238 (cuts);
rejected scheme with details of its dome, 235, 236 (cut);
likeness of dome to Bramante’s scheme for St. Peter’s, 236;
likeness to Michael Angelo’s scheme, 237;
façade of the second design a close copy of Inigo Jones’s, 238;
present structure never embodied in any set of drawings, 239;
plan has no beauty comparable to that of St. Peter’s, 239
(cut);
comparison of, with St. Peter’s, 236, 239, 241, 243, 245;
plan and elevation, 239;
dome, 239–242 (plate);
recalls Bramante’s San Pietro in Montorio, 239;
structural system of, 240 (cut);
vaulting of the nave has somewhat the effect of Gothic
vaulting, 243;
use of attic wall in support of vaulting, 243;
neo-classic orders of the interior, 244, 245 (cut);
intersecting of archivolt and entablature, 244;
concealing of the buttresses, 244, 245 (cut);
vaulting of the apse, 245.
Whitehall, Banqueting Hall, 227 (plate);
of Palladian design, 228;
orders of the façade, 228;
scheme for the palace illustrated by Kent, 229;
plan is French in character rather than Italian, 229;
order of the basement has a structural character, 229 (cut);
façade of circular court, orders of, 230.
Church of St. Stephen’s, 246;
ch. of St. Bride’s, 246;
ch. of St. Mary-le-Bow, 246;
ch. of St. Peter’s, Cornhill, 246.
Longhena, architect, Palazzo Pesaro, Venice, 163.
Maderna, the western bays of St. Peter’s, Rome, 68.
Majano, Benedetto da, the Palazzo Strozzi, Florence, 106.
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