Character of Renaissance ArchitectureMoore, Charles Herbert
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Character of Renaissance Architecture
Moore, Charles Herbert
Architecture, Renaissance
Venice, church of The Redentore, general scheme, 100 (cut);
east end, 100, 101;
orders, 101;
façade, 101.
Church of S. Fantino, 151.
Church of San Francesco della Vigna façade, 100.
Church of San Giorgio Maggiore, 97;
nave, 97, 98;
piers, 97, 98 (cut);
orders raised on pedestals, 98, 99;
placed under the archivolts, 98;
entablature, 98, 99, 101;
façade, 99 (cut), 101.
Church of Santa Maria Formosa reproduces features of St. Andrea
of Mantua with details of the character of the Lombardi, 153.
Church of Santa Maria dei Miracoli, 151 (cut), 156;
refinement in details, 151;
façade a marvel of excellence in mechanical execution, 151, 152
(cut);
Lombard blind arcade recalled in decoration of the façade, 151;
carving of ear of barley and flower stalks, 169 (plate);
carved mask from a pilaster, 178 (cut).
Church of St. Mark, piers pierced longitudinally and
transversely, 150 (cut).
Church of San Salvatore, 150, 151;
peculiar pier supports of the barrel vaulting, 150 (cut);
use of an attic as support for vaulting, 151;
its system is that of the ch. of St. Mark, 151.
Church of San Zaccaria, general description of interior, 149,
150;
singular column of nondescript character, 150 (cut).
Palaces of the grand canal, finest are those of the later
mediæval period, 159.
Palazzo Contarini, 161;
details of façade, 161;
window openings, 161 (cut);
grouping of pilasters of three different proportions and
magnitudes, 161 (cut).
Palazzo Corner-Spinelli, 160 (plate);
window openings, mediæval features, incompleted circle in the
tympanum space, 160;
pilasters, panelling of, 160.
Palazzo Cornaro, description of the front, 124;
unequal main divisions of the front overladen with heavy
orders, 162.
Ducal Palace, east side of the court, 154 (plate);
façade described in detail, 154, 155;
window openings described, 154, 155;
north side of court, window openings, 155 (cut);
giant’s stair, fine execution of, 156;
arabesque after Roman model, 167 (cut);
grotesque creatures in the relief of the Scala d’Oro, 177
(cut).
Palazzo Grimani, façade, 163.
Palazzo Pesaro, 163.
Palazzo Valmarano, 133.
Palazzo Vendramini, 161;
full orders in all three stories, 161, 162;
grouping of mediæval window openings, 162;
balconies, 162;
disproportion of topmost entablature, 162.
Library of St. Mark, 121 (cut);
arrangement of the metope in the frieze, 121, 122 (cuts);
orders, 122;
frieze and balustraded balconies, 123;
free-standing column under the archivolt in the order of the
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