Character of Renaissance ArchitectureMoore, Charles Herbert
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Character of Renaissance Architecture
Moore, Charles Herbert
Architecture, Renaissance
Renaissance architecture, Venetian, 135;
church architecture, 149–153;
palace architecture, 154–163 (cuts);
its most characteristic architecture is that of the palaces of
the grand canal, 159;
the usual scheme of the front that of a wide central bay wholly
occupied by openings flanked by lateral bays with a solid
wall on either side of an opening, 162, 163;
neo-classic influences confined largely to ornamental details,
136;
illogical scheme of openings which became characteristic of,
144–149 (cuts);
drew some of its material from Florentine and Lombard sources,
149;
later architecture follows the measurably uniform style of
Vignola and Palladio, 153, 162;
overlaying with heavy orders the typical unequal main divisions
of the palace fronts, 162, 163.
Ressauts, irrational use of, 38;
of façade of Santa Maria Novella, Florence, 37;
of San Francesco of Rimini, 38;
of ch. of Santa Maria degli Angeli, Assisi, 89.
Rhenish Romanesque style of ch. of Sant’Agostino, Rome, 72.
Ribs, system of, in Florence dome, 16–19, 55 (cuts);
in Gothic vaulting have nothing of the character of dome ribs,
20, 21, 56;
of St. Peter’s dome, Rome, 55, 56, 59;
of cath. of Salamanca, 57, 58.
Riccio, Antonio, his work on east side of the court of the Ducal
Palace, Venice, 154 (plate).
Rimini, San Francesco of, church of, 35;
façade, 38, 42;
modelled on the arch of Septimius Severus, 38, 42;
ressauts, 38.
Roman arch and entablature scheme applied to a continuous arcade,
118, 119.
Roman architecture, furnished models for Renaissance architecture,
38, 40, 43, 97;
use of entablature block in, 37;
use of the arch in, 37;
the ressaut, 38;
triumphal arch design a model for Renaissance façades, 38, 39–43
(cut);
treatment of the angle, 79 (cut).
Roman architectural carving, furnished models for Renaissance work,
167;
tasteless and meaningless designs, 170^1;
leafage of, compared with Greek leafage, 174 (cuts).
Roman Renaissance, church architecture of the, 66–101 (cuts);
palatial architecture, 112–134.
_See_ Renaissance architecture and Rome.
Romanesque architecture, 7;
Rhenish Romanesque style of ch. of Sant’Agostino, Rome, 72.
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