Character of Renaissance ArchitectureMoore, Charles Herbert
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Character of Renaissance Architecture
Moore, Charles Herbert
Architecture, Renaissance
Rome, its monuments the inspiration of Renaissance architecture, 3,
43, 247.
St. Peter’s, rebuilding and demolishing of the old basilica, 47;
work of Rossellino, 47;
work of Bramante, 47–53 (cuts), 63, 64, 70;
date of the beginning of building, 47;
general plan, 47, 53, 66 (cut);
the plans of Raphael and Peruzzi, 47^2;
work of Michael Angelo, 54–65 (cuts), 66;
work of Maderna, 66, 245;
short-sighted admiration of, 71;
design of Antonio San Gallo, 71;
influence of, seen in other churches, 90, 92;
arabesque on door-valves, 170 (cut);
Wren’s scheme for St. Paul’s based on the model of, 236, 237;
comparison of, with St. Paul’s, 236, 239, 241, 243, 245.
Dome, 44–65 (cuts);
use of the Pantheon and the Basilica of Maxentius as models,
49–52 (cuts);
drum, 50 (cut), 53;
abutments, 50 (cut), 53;
colonnade, 51, 56, 142;
lantern, 52;
piers, 53, 66, 68;
buttresses, 53 (cut), 55, 56, 59;
design of Michael Angelo, 53–65 (cuts);
his alterations of Bramante’s scheme, 53–55, 64;
attic, 54 (cut);
vault shells, 54 (cut), 55;
ribs, 55, 56, 59;
binding chains, 59, 60, 62;
ruptures in, 59, 60–63 (cut), 64;
mathematicians’ report of the condition of the structure in
1742, 60 (cut);
violation of laws of stability in, 64, 65;
strengthening of Bramante’s work, 64^1;
its beauty exaggerated, 65;
likeness of Wren’s scheme of St. Paul’s to, 236.
Exterior, 68–70 (cut);
makeshifts necessitated by the use of the colossal order,
68–70 (cut);
aisle walls carried to the height of the clerestory, 68, 245;
domes over the aisles, 68–70 (cut), 245.
Interior, Bramante’s scheme, 53, 66;
Michael Angelo’s work, 53, 66–70;
piers, 53, 66, 68;
effect of magnitude dwarfed by the colossal order, 53, 67,
68;
great size of the structural parts, 68;
part of the vault hidden by the cornice, 68, 92;
its ornamentation a cheap deception, 71;
ressauts, 90, 92.
Church of the Gesù, 91–95 (cuts);
Vignola’s plan given in his book on the Five Orders, 92;
interior, general scheme, 92;
orders, 92;
entablature, 92;
façade, 92–95 (cuts);
broken pediments of, 93, 95;
scroll work and hermæ, 93;
reversed consoles, 95;
tablets, 95 (cut).
Church of Sant’Agostino, 72–74 (cuts);
its architects, 72;
date, 72;
the general style is Rhenish Romanesque, 72;
nave, 72;
Renaissance ornamental details, 72 (cut);
façade, 73, 74 (cut);
truncated pediment, 74;
tablets in wall surface, 74;
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