Character of Renaissance ArchitectureMoore, Charles Herbert
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Character of Renaissance Architecture
Moore, Charles Herbert
Architecture, Renaissance
Milizia, _Memorie degli Architetti_, etc., quoted, 23^2, 84^1;
cited on Alberti, 35, 44;
cited on use of entablature block, 36;
cited on safety of the dome of St. Peter’s, 58^4;
cited on the strengthening of the dome of St. Peter’s, 62;
on ch. of Consolazione at Todi, 74;
on spire-like tower of ch. of Santo Spirito, Florence, 81;
cited on Vignola, 84;
on dome of Sant’Andrea di Ponte Molle, Rome, 86;
on window openings framed with orders, crowned with pediments,
109;
quoted on Sansovino, 119, 121;
quoted on Vignola, 128;
quoted on De l’Orme, 194.
Montalembert, cited, 5^1.
Montepulciano, church of San Biagio, 77–83 (cuts);
interior, 78–80 (cut);
ressauts, 78, 90;
Doric order, 78;
use of pilasters on the angles, 78, 81;
exterior, 81–83 (cut);
dome, 81;
façade, 81;
panels of upper story, 81;
orders, 81, 83;
towers, 81.
Naples museum, composite capital showing Roman leafage, 175.
Nave of ch. of Santissima Annunziatta, Arezzo, 83 (cut);
Sant’Andrea of Mantua, 38 (plate);
ch. of Sant’Agostino, Rome, 72;
ch. of San Giorgio Maggiore, Venice, 97, 98.
Nelli, _Discorsi di Architettura_, 21^3;
quoted on Brunelleschi’s scaffolding, 21^3;
cited on stability of Florence dome, 23^3, 24^1.
Neo-classicists, their confidence in the art of Roman antiquity as
the embodiment of all true principles of architectural design,
97.
Neo-pagan spirit of the Renaissance, 2, 4, 8.
Nicholas V, Pope, rebuilding of basilica of St. Peter, 47.
Norton, C. E., _Church Building in the Middle Ages_, 21^1;
cited on building of the dome of the Florence cathedral, 21^1.
Openings, mediæval Florentine form, 102 (cut);
of domestic architecture in Perugia, 102;
reveals are shallow in earlier buildings, 104;
cathedral of Como, variety of illogical forms in, 148 (cut).
_See_ Window openings.
Order and symmetry of a mechanical kind seen in Renaissance
architecture, 133.
Order, colossal, so-called, early use of, 40.
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