Character of Renaissance ArchitectureMoore, Charles Herbert
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Character of Renaissance Architecture
Moore, Charles Herbert
Architecture, Renaissance
Oxford, St. Mary’s Church, porch, mentioned, 227;
Sheldonian theatre, Wren quoted on, 234.
Padua, town hall, Palladio’s scheme for town hall of Vicenza
derived from, 130, 131.
Painting, Italian genius for, 6, 7;
most Renaissance architects were painters and sculptors, 6, 7,
84, 96.
Palace architecture of the Renaissance, Florentine, 102–111 (cuts
and plate);
Roman, 112–134 (cuts);
of North Italy, 154–166 (cuts);
Venetian, 154–163 (cuts).
_See_ Renaissance architecture.
Palladian architecture, 95;
introduced into England by Jones, 227;
far from true to classic design, 228, 230;
rules are arbitrary and not in accord with the true principles of
ancient art, 248.
Palladio, _Quattro libri dell’Architettura di Andrea Palladio_,
96^4;
his influence greater than that of any other architect of the
Renaissance, 95, 248;
quoted on his study of architecture, 96, 97;
quoted on his admiration of his own work, 131^1;
his compositions based on order and symmetry of a mechanical
kind, 133;
concerned with the superficial appearance in architecture, 133;
ch. of San Francesco della Vigna, Venice, 100;
ch. of San Giorgio Maggiore, Venice, 97–100 (cuts);
ch. of the Redentore, Venice, 100 (cut);
Palazzo Valmarana, Venice, 133;
Loggia Bernarda, Vicenza, 133 (cut);
Palazzo Colleone-Porta, Vicenza, 133;
Palazzo Porta-Barbarano, Vicenza, 133;
the portico of the town hall, Vicenza, 130–132 (cut).
Pallaiuolo, Simone, Palazzo Guardagni, Florence, 107.
Palustre, Leon, _L’Architecture de la Renaissance_, 89^2;
quoted on the entablature of St. Andrea di Ponte Molle, Rome, 89.
Paris, Church of St. Etienne du Mont, of Flamboyant Gothic form,
with neo-classic west front and central portal, 213, 214;
portal with columns modelled after those claimed by De l’Orme as
his own invention, 214.
Church of St. Eustache, a Gothic structure overlaid with
Renaissance details, 213.
Fountain of the Innocents, 194–196 (cut);
a reproduction of the scheme of a Roman triumphal arch, 196.
Hotel Cluny, a forerunner of the Renaissance châteaux, 180.
Louvre, Lescot’s work on the west wing, 196–200 (cut);
orders, 198, 199;
the salient pavilions, have no function, 198;
breaking of the entablature in, 199;
sculptured festoons heavy and formal, 199.
Palace of the Tuileries, work of De l’Orme, 200–207 (cuts);
peculiar form of column claimed by De l’Orme as his invention,
201–206 (cut);
basement arcade, 207;
attic story, 207.
Parthenon, metal clamps in masonry, 22^2;
effect of a dome erected on, 89.
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