Character of Renaissance ArchitectureMoore, Charles Herbert
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Character of Renaissance Architecture
Moore, Charles Herbert
Architecture, Renaissance
Walpole, Horace, _Anecdotes of Painting_, 226;
quoted on Inigo Jones, 226, 229;
quoted on faults of Jones’s façade of old St. Paul’s, London,
231, 232.
Ware, Isaac, _A Complete Body of Architecture_, 248^1, 249^1;
quoted on the rules of ancient architects, 248, 249.
Wenz, Paul, _Die Kuppel des Domes Santa Maria del Fiore zu
Florenz_, 20^1.
Willis, his term “continuous impost” used, 188^1.
Window openings, framed by structural members without structural
meaning, 116;
a peculiar form of compound, sometimes called an invention of
Scamozzi, 134 (cut), 143;
the same form occurs in the basilica of Shakka, 134 (cut);
tapering jamb shafts, 137 (cut), 142, 149;
illogical scheme of, which became characteristic of Lombard and
Venetian Renaissance architecture, 148 (cut);
mediæval form of those in Venetian palaces, 159 (cut), 160, 162;
Lower Walterstone Hall, England, illustrates Elizabethan
neo-classic ornamentation, 221 (cut);
château of Azay le Rideau, France, Flamboyant Gothic and
neo-classic forms combined, 186 (cut);
château of Charleval, France, unmeaning variation of details,
210, 211 (cut);
Palazzo Bartolini, Florence, 109 (cut);
Palazzo Guardagni, Florence, 107;
the Quaratesi, Florence, 106;
the Riccardi, Florence, mediæval in their larger features, but
with tapering jamb shafts, 103;
Palazzo Rucellai, Florence, 109 (cut);
Ospedale Maggiore, Milan, 165 (cut);
of the Certosa of Pavia, tapering jamb shafts, 137 (cut);
Palazzo Cancelleria, 112 (cut);
of Palazzo Farnese, Rome, framed by structural members without
structural meaning, 116 (cut);
Ducal Palace, Venice, east side of court, 154;
north side, pseudo-Corinthian order of, 155 (cut);
Palazzo Contarini, Venice, grouping of the pilasters, 161 (cut);
Palazzo Corner-Spinelli, Venice, mediæval features, incomplete
circle in the tympanum space, 160;
Palazzo Corneri, Venice, 124 (cut);
Palazzo Vendramini, Venice, grouping of, in the bays of the
façade, 162;
Scuola di San Rocco, Venice, with mediæval features and with
pseudo-Corinthian colonnettes, 159 (cut);
Palazzo Bevilacqua, Verona, 126, 127;
Palazzo Branzo, Vicenza, a peculiar form of compound window,
sometimes called an invention of Scamozzi, 134.
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