Test 2: Buildings Flashcards
Title: House church
Date: c.230 A.D.
Location: Dura-Europas, Syria
Title- Old St. Peter’s Basilica
Date- begun 333A.D.
Location- Rome
Patron- Constantine
Early Christianity
Title- Old St. Peter’s Basilica
Date- begun 333A.D.
Location- Rome
Patron- Constantine
Early Christianity
Title- Old St. Peter’s Basilica
Date- begun 333A.D.
Location- Rome
Patron- Constantine
Early Christianity
Title: Santa Costanza
Date: c. 340 AD
Location: Rome
Patron- Constantine
Title: Santa Costanza
Date: c. 340 AD
Location: Rome
Patron- Constantine
Early Christianity
Title: Santa Costanza
Date: c. 340 AD
Location: Rome
Patron- Constantine
Early Christianity
Title: Santa Costanza
Date: c. 340 AD
Location: Rome
Patron- Constantine
Early Christianity
Title: Church of the Holy Apostles
Date: c. 382 A.D.
Location: Milan
Plan by- St. Ambrose
Early Christianity
Title: Haghia Sophia
Date: 532-537
Location: Constantinople (modern Istanbul)
Architects- Anthemius of Tralles and Isidorus of Miletus; Patron- Emperor Justinian
Byzantine
Sig:
• Centralized plan
• Dome on Pendent/ four piers for support
• Windows and light used as decoration
- Built in five years
- Was originally the Santa Maria that burned down
- Two architects-Isidorus of Miletus/ Anthemius of Tralles’s
- Exterior takes structural form interior
- Spatial quality to the major dome that is nearly square in proportions
- Narthex with barrel vault
- 230 feet long by 250 feet wide
- Built to represent the dome of heaven
- Ribs are a umbrella dome 9 true dome would be like the monolithic dome of the (Pantheon)
- Dome feel down the first time they built it
- Considered dynamic space
- Use of natural light to dematerialize walls
- Mosaics of gold and blues
- Built up of scale
- Dynamic space
- Carved deep relief’s for decoration
Title: Haghia Sophia
Date: 532-537
Location: Constantinople (modern Istanbul)
Architects- Anthemius of Tralles and Isidorus of Miletus; Patron- Emperor Justinian
Byzantine
Title: Haghia Sophia
Date: 532-537
Location: Constantinople (modern Istanbul)
Architects- Anthemius of Tralles and Isidorus of Miletus; Patron- Emperor Justinian
Byzantine
Title: Haghia Sophia
Date: 532-537
Location: Constantinople (modern Istanbul)
Architects- Anthemius of Tralles and Isidorus of Miletus; Patron- Emperor Justinian
Byzantine
Title: San Vitale
Location: Ravenna, Italy
Date: begun c. 526
Patrons- Emperor Justinian and Empress Theodosia
Byzantine
Sig:
• Remnants of roman exteriors
• Centralized dome
• Octagon plan/ daisy shaped interior
- carvings of high relief on the bottom
- light and authorial
- twin mosaics
- images of patrons
- Images of the Theodora Empire
- glorification of god
- outer worldly emphasis on space
Title: San Vitale
Location: Ravenna, Italy
Date: begun c. 526
Patrons- Emperor Justinian and Empress Theodosia
Byzantine
Title: San Vitale
Location: Ravenna, Italy
Date: begun c. 526
Patrons- Emperor Justinian and Empress Theodosia
Byzantine
Title: The Kabba
Location: Mecca, Saudi Arabia
Date:
Islamic
Title: Great Mosque
Location: Kairawan, Tunisia
Date: c. 7th century
Islamic
Sig:
• courtyard that is surrounded by arcading
• rear wall faces Mecca
• Disorientating halls
• indicator-minrab/niche
• four doors to symbolize four points of compass
• decoration- is abstract geometric relief’s
Title: The Great Mosque
Location: Djenne, Mali
Date: Current 1906-1997
Patron- Koi Konboro
Islamic
Sig:
• Rebuilt three times 17th, 18th, 24th
• maintains standard built form of mosque
• thick walls conical piers around entrances
• wood torons
• orientated to the east
• normal minrab, towers, minarets
• vertical buttress
• monumental door
• thick battered walls
• small windows
• building material is adobe ( which is a tie into the ancient theory of earth material
• some brick(made only by women)
• built by hand
• big communal events
• Skylights that are created by hollowed out pots, so they can top the pot off with a lid when it rains. Otherwise it is left open for air circulation.
Title: The Great Mosque
Location: Djenne, Mali
Date: Current 1906-1997
Patron- Koi Konboro
Islamic
Title: Great Mosque
Location: Cordoba, Spain
Date: begun 786, last addition 987
Islamic
Sig:
• small gates
• small doors
• very highly decorated
• polylobed arches
• typical horseshoe arches outside
• orange trees in open courtyard/garden
• columns are from spoilage/Ascolia
• capitals don’t match columns
• huge expanse of columns
• entry from many sides
• minaret near main gate
• hauz for ablutions in courtyard
• minrab arch
• red and pink striped blocks
Title: Great Mosque
Location: Cordoba, Spain
Date: begun 786, last addition 987
Islamic
Title: Rock-cut chaitya (hall)
Location: Karli, India
Date: late first century BC
Islamic
Sig:
• light illuminates the stupa from a hole in the ceiling
• clockwise rotation around the stupa by the monks while they mediate
• heavy carving of sculpture
• smaller decorative relief’s
• Vaharma
• Stupa-“ mound” with writings on it in Sand script
Title: The Great Stupa
Location: Sanchi, India
Date: c. 150 BCE
Islamic
Sig:
• carved to resemble wood carvings
• painted red
• 42’ high solid brick construction
• base and railings
• carved entrance
• 4 entrances
• has a continuous flow
• always located on the highest mound(sacred mound)
• Reliquary- only holds the remains of one saint/person
• Cannot gain entrance into stupa
• main gate faces in the east direction
Title: The Great Stupa
Location: Sanchi, India
Date: c. 150 BCE
Islamic
Title: The Great Stupa
Location: Sanchi, India
Date: c. 150 BCE
Islamic
Title: Parasuramesvara Temple
Location: Bhuvanesvara, India
Date: 8th Century AD
Islamic
Title: Parasuramesvara Temple
Location: Bhuvanesvara, India
Date: 8th Century AD
Islamic
Title: Lakshmi Narayan Temple
Location: Bhuvanesvara, India
Date: 8th century AD
Islamic
Sig:
• sacred architecture
• small amount of detail
• built in 1930
• covered with pattern
Title: Angkor Wat
Location: Angkor, Cambodia
Date: 12th century AD
Islamic
Sig:
• 5 levels till you get to the main ;eve;
• deep relief carvings
• concentric rings
• mortuary temple
Title: Angkor Wat
Location: Angkor, Cambodia
Date: 12th century AD
Islamic
Title: The Naiku, or the Inner Shrine, at Ise Shrine
Location: Ise, Japan
Date: rebuilt every 20 years since the late 7th century
Islamic
Sig:
• family shrine
• oscillating construction
• located in southern Japan
• dedicated to Amaterasu –Sun goddess
• marks the spot of her arrival
• plan based off Imperial vernacular model
• late bronze age granaries
• sacred upper class architecture
• built every 20 years
• tori -ceremonial gate
• Level of entrance depends on your social status. Only the royal family and priests are allowed to enter the main structure, for they are descendants of Amaterasu
• all natural materials
• extending rafters
• raised platform
• precision craftsmanship-no nails, mortise and tension construction
Title: Chapel of Charlemagne (Palatine Chapel)
Date: c. 792-805
Location: Aachen (Germany)
Architect- Odo if Metz;
Patron- Charlemagne
Carolingian
Sig:
• axial reading
- centralized plan form
- octagonal dome, center ring
- 16 exterior sides
- umbrella dome(not a true dome)
- ribs with infill
- weight carried out onto ribs down to the web
- chancellor, vestibule , ambulatory style dome
- Imperial chapel
- embodies Charlemagne
- throne room built up on the step
- vaulting in the ambulatory
- directionality created by the placement of the altar
- mosaics as decoration
- not accurate order of use
- fragments of several architects as designers
- Byzantine influence
- Corinthian capital-with arches on columns
- Barbarians sacked the place and burned the manuals of the church
Title: Chapel of Charlemagne (Palatine Chapel)
Date: c. 792-805
Location: Aachen (Germany)
Architect- Odo if Metz;
Patron- Charlemagne
Carolingian
Title: Chapel of Charlemagne (Palatine Chapel)
Date: c. 792-805
Location: Aachen (Germany)
Architect- Odo if Metz;
Patron- Charlemagne
Carolingian
Title: Gatehouse of the Abbey
Date: 767-744
Location: Lorsch (Germany) Carolingian
Romanesque
Sig:
- orders used as decorative details
- 3 arches for entrances
- twin towers
- space in attic above the arches
- triumphal arch
- patterned front façade-geometric
- half columns
- simple arches without capitals
- incorrect usage of exterior and interior uses of orders
- Architrave is chopped off
- Pilasters instead if real columns
- painted columns on the interior walls
Title: Gatehouse of the Abbey
Date: 767-744
Location: Lorsch (Germany) Carolingian
Romanesque
Title: Sainte-Foy
Date: c. 1050-1120
Location: Conques (France)
Romanesque
Sig:
- extremely high ceilings 125 feet high
- interior stark and plain
- columns turn into piers
- complex compound piers, round , square piers past the tribune level
- vertical lines and thin colonnettes
- relics of St. Patrick
- Gold statue of St. Peter
- Uncut gem inlays of emerald, rubies, etc.
- typandium- has a arch relief or sculptures scenes of judgment day/meant to teach the people who could not read
- carved with several different images
- transverse arch
- barrel vault/true vault
- no corridor around the center of the chapel
- capitals carved with old laciest
- return of Latin cross form
- dark nave
Title: Sainte-Foy
Date: c. 1050-1120
Location: Conques (France)
Romanesque
Title: Sainte-Foy
Date: c. 1050-1120
Location: Conques (France)
Romanesque
Title: Durham Cathedral
Date: begun 1093
Location: Durham (England)
Romanesque
Title: Durham Cathedral
Date: begun 1093
Location: Durham (England)
Romanesque
Sig:
- first usage of double arches
- Blind arcading as a decorative motif
- Interlocking arcading was also used
- each main bay is supported by a bay of pier arches
- decoration is in between compound arch
- Celtic patterns mixed in with Norman Architecture
- Archivolts
- first groin vault used since Roman times
- usage of massive columns as decoration
- fusion of Norman and Anglo-Saxon pieces
- fan vault
Title: Saint Ambrogio
Date: 8th- 12th centuries
Location: Milan (Italy)
Romanesque
Sig:
- Built over a 4th century Basilica church that had an Atrium
- 2 bell towers almost equal in size/campanili
- three major bays
- transverse arches bear their weight on the compound piers
- low flattish vaults
- Northern town columns
- feels spacious to the sides vs. center
- carved capitals of griffins, animal motifs use throughout building
- considered old fashion
Title: Saint Ambrogio
Date: 8th- 12th centuries
Location: Milan (Italy)
Romanesque
Title: Saint Ambrogio
Date: 8th- 12th centuries
Location: Milan (Italy)
Romanesque
Title: Cathedral complex
Date: begun 1063-to 13th century
Location: Pisa (Italy)
Architect- Busketos Baptistry, Campanile, Campo Santo
Romanesque
Sig:
• ornately carved pediment
• polychromic stone usage
• Black and white strips stone
• color marble
• vaulting for nave
• flat wood timber structure
• clerestory windows
• separate baptistery
Title: Durham Cathedral
Date: begun 1093
Location: Durham (England)
Romanesque
Title: Pisa Baptistery
Date: begun 1093
Location: Durham (England)
Romanesque
Sig:
- Lombard screen façade
- blind arcading
- ornately carved pediment
- polychromic stone usage
- Black and white strips
- transverse arch
- Vaulting (nave)
- free standing Baptistery
- campanile separate from church
Title: New chevet of Saint Denis
Date: 1140-1144
Location: outside Paris
Designer and patron: Abbot Sugar
Detail: Early Gothic parts
French Gothic
Title: New chevet of Saint Denis
Date: 1140-1144
Location: outside Paris
Designer and patron: Abbot Sugar
Detail: Early Gothic parts
French Gothic
Title: Notre Dame
Date: 1163- 1250
Location: outside Paris
Additional info: patron- Archbishop Maurice de Sully
Detail: Early Gothic parts
French Gothic
Sig:
• façade –triumphal arch pattern
• twin towers
• very balanced
• created on a grid pattern
• 150’ high to keystone
• piers are quite massive
• simple rounded piers
• radical thinning of the structure
Title: Notre Dame
Date: 1163- 1250
Location: outside Paris
Additional info: patron- Archbishop Maurice de Sully
Detail: Early Gothic parts
French Gothic
Title: Notre Dame
Date: 1163- 1250
Location: outside Paris
Additional info: patron- Archbishop Maurice de Sully
Detail: Early Gothic parts
French Gothic
Title: Notre Dame
Date: 1194-1220
Location: Chartres
Additional info: the Master of Chartres
Detail: “High” Gothic
French Gothic
Sig:
• a towns display of wealth
• vertical elements/ Transverse arches
• took two centuries to build
• vaults, has spatial qualities
• Two towers don’t match
• meant to represent heaven on earth
• transcendental atmosphere
• stone, glass and masonry building materials
• dedicated to St. Augustine
• considered the divine city and Chartes means “Our Lady”
• considered “high Gothic”
• first creation of stone tracery
• mullion don’t interrupt the eye
• thin stone frame
• lead windows
Title: Notre Dame
Date: 1194-1220
Location: Chartres
Additional info: the Master of Chartres
Detail: “High” Gothic
French Gothic
Title: Sainte-Chapelle
Date: 1241-1248
Location: Paris
Additional info: patron- King Louis IX
Detail: Rayonnant
French Gothic
Sig:
• wall piers
• tracery
• pier buttresses/wall buttress
• not typical French gothic
• flatness of walls
• elaborate rose windows
• radiating tracery
Title: Salisbury Cathedral
Date: 1220-1260
Location: Salisbury (England)
Detail: Early English
English Gothic
Sig:
• didn’t push the flying buttress
• used more wall buttress
• smoother interior wall surface treatments
• Built in 1320, spire was added later.
• cloister and chapter house on grounds
• squared off
• twin transcepts
• long choir
• Tall spire on crossing instead of front façade.
• façade has short spires
• blind arcading
• vertical glass windows
• surface complexity-dematerialized by being carved away
• rib vaulting became more decorative in chapter house
• Tierceron vaults
• stone carvings into joists, Take off of Byzantine
• interior quite plan
• Stone vegetation reliefs
Title: Salisbury Cathedral
Date: 1220-1260
Location: Salisbury (England)
Detail: Early English
English Gothic
Title: Ely: Cathedral Lady Chapel
Date: 1321-c.1353
Location: Ely (England)
Detail: decorated
Enlish Gothic
Title: Ely: Cathedral Lady Chapel
Date: 1321-c.1353
Location: Ely (England)
Detail: decorated
Enlish Gothic
Title: Gloucester Cathedral Choir
Location: Gloucester (England)
Date: 1337-1367
Detail: perpendicular
English Gothic
Sig:
• rebuilt chancellor to look like perpendicular from the Norman style
• complex ribs
• tall thin line, flat surfaces
• concave cone
• cloister is located in Gloucester
• interior choir
Title: Gloucester Cathedral Choir
Location: Gloucester (England)
Date: 1337-1367
Detail: perpendicular
English Gothic
Title: King’s College Chapel
Date: 1443 – 61, 1506 – 15
Location: Cambridge (England)
Additional info: patrons- Henry VI, Henry VII, & Henry VIII
Detail: late Perpendicular
English Gothic
Title: King’s College Chapel
Date: 1443 – 61, 1506 – 15
Location: Cambridge (England)
Additional info: patrons- Henry VI, Henry VII, & Henry VIII
Detail: late Perpendicular
English Gothic
Title: Milan Duomo
Date: Begun 1386
Location: Milan
Italian Gothic
Sig:
• thousand spires
• gray stone
• no crossing tower
• flying buttresses in back
• wall pier are like the English
• no light
• squatty
• copper door
• stain glass
• Janet thinks this is the ugliest building ever, not tall enough
Title: Milan Duomo
Date: Begun 1386
Location: Milan
Italian
Title: San Francesco
Date: 1326-1475
Location: Siena (Italy)
European Mendicant Church
Sig:
• stone stripping done by paint
• yellow sandstone
Title: San Domenico
Date: 1226-1340
Location: Siena (Italy)
European Mendicant Church
Sig:
• brick
• lancet windows
Title: Santa Maria Novella
Date: 1278-1350
Location: Florence (Italy)
Culture: (Dominican)
European Mendicant Church
Sig:
• blind arcading
• interior space has vaults and isles
• thin ribbed vaults
• usage of white and black stone
Title: Santa Maria Novella
Date: 1278-1350
Location: Florence (Italy)
Culture: (Dominican)
European Mendicant Church
Sig:
• blind arcading
• interior space has vaults and isles
• thin ribbed vaults
• usage of white and black stone
Title: Santa Croce
Date: 1252-c.1400.
Location: Florence (Italy)
European Mendicant Church
Sig:
• plain
• orders unify space
• simple piers
• large side vaults
• beginning movement of more decoration being used inside
Title: Santa Croce
Date: 1252-c.1400.
Location: Florence (Italy)
European Mendicant Church
Sig:
• plain
• orders unify space
• simple piers
• large side vaults
• beginning movement of more decoration being used inside
Title: The Duomo
Date: 1196-1215, façade after 1376
Location: Siena
European Cathedral
Sig:
Title: The Duomo
Date: 1196-1215, façade after 1376
Location: Siena
European Cathedral
Title: The Duomo
Date: 1196-1215, façade after 1376
Location: Siena
European Cathedral
Title: The Duomo
Date: 1196-1215, façade after 1376
Location: Siena
European Cathedral
Title: Ypres Cloth Hall
Date: begun 1200, completed 1620
Location: Ypres (Belgium)
European Guild Hall
Time: Rathaus
Location: Gottingen (German)
Sig:
-With the invention of town halls, it became the new symbol of town pride.
Title: Palazzo del Broletto
Date: 1215
Location: Como (Italy)
European Palazzi del Pubblico
Sig:
• specialized windows
• space large enough for vote
• platform was made from ground stairway
Title: Palazzo Pubblico and the Campo
Date: 1297-1310
Location: Siena (Italy)
European Palazzi del Pubblico
Title: Palazzo Pubblico and the Campo
Date: 1297-1310
Location: Siena (Italy)
European Palazzi del Pubblico
Title: Palazzo Pubblico and the Campo
Date: 1297-1310
Location: Siena (Italy)
European Palazzi del Pubblico
Title: Palazzo Pubblico and the Campo
Date: 1297-1310
Location: Siena (Italy)
European Palazzi del Pubblico
Title: Palazzo Vecchio
Date:1229-1314 and 1376-1382
Location: Florence (Italy)
Euopean Palazzi del Pubblico
Title: Loggia dei Lanzi (della Signoria)
Date:1229-1314 and 1376-1382
Location: Florence (Italy)
Title: Palazzo Vecchio and Loggia dei Lanzi (della Signoria)
Date:1229-1314 and 1376-1382
Location: Florence (Italy)
Title: La Venta
Date: c. 900-400BCE
Location: Southern Mexico, on Golf Coast
Additional info: Olmec otilmacan
Sig:
• structures were cone
• second plaza was a tomb with two bodies.
• Pyramid and plaza- orientation to the north of the jaguar god
• first culture to develop centralism
[Great Pyramid and ballcourt]
Title: La Venta
Date: c. 900-400BCE
Location: Southern Mexico, on Golf Coast
People: Olmec otilmacan
Title: Teotihuacán
Date: c. 100 BC-750 AD
Location: Central Mexico
People: Teotihuacano, then Aztec
Sig:
• 2nd occupants by the Aztec in 1200 AD
• theocratic government
• built first cities
• consisted government, priests, service workers
• organizational planning through orthogonal design
• gold in decoration and obsidian
• created mass and voids
• organized on a grid space pattern
[Avenue of the Dead, Pyramids of the Sun and Moon]
Title: Teotihuacán
Date: c. 100 BC-750 AD
Location: Central Mexico
People: Teotihuacano, then Aztec
Sig:
Divided into four zones-
• citadel
• forum
• shops, retail
• ceremonial axis
Title: Teotihuacán
Date: c. 100 BC-750 AD
Location: Central Mexico
People: Teotihuacano, then Aztec
[Great Plaza]
Title: Tikal
Date: c. 300-950 AD
Location: Guatemala
People: Mayan
Title: Tikal
Date: c. 300-950 AD
Location: Guatemala
People: Mayan
[Temple of the Giant Jaguar (ca. 700 AD)]
Title: Tikal
Date: c. 300-950 AD
Location: Guatemala
People: Mayan
Title: Chichen Itza
Date: c. 800 AD-1200 AD
Location: Mexico, Yucatan Peninsula
People: Mayan/Toltec
Sig:
• no roof comb
• not a typical site
• ball courts
• temenos in center
[Temple of the Worriors (12th c.)]
Title: Chichen Itza
Date: c. 800 AD-1200 AD
Location: Mexico, Yucatan Peninsula
People: Mayan/Toltec
[Temple of the Worriors (12th c.)]
Title: Chichen Itza
Date: c. 800 AD-1200 AD
Location: Mexico, Yucatan Peninsula
People: Mayan/Toltec
Title: Tenochtitlan
Date: 1325 AD-1527
Location: under Mexico City
People: Aztec
Title: Tenochtitlan
Date: 1325 AD-1527
Location: under Mexico City
People: Aztec
Title: Duomo (Santa Maria del Fiore)
Date: begun 1296
Location: Florence
Additional info: architect- Arnolfo de Cambio, dome by- Brunelleschi (1420-1436)
Title: Duomo (Santa Maria del Fiore)
Date: begun 1296
Location: Florence
Additional info: architect- Arnolfo de Cambio, dome by- Brunelleschi (1420-1436)
Title: Duomo (Santa Maria del Fiore)
Date: begun 1296
Location: Florence
Additional info: architect- Arnolfo de Cambio, dome by- Brunelleschi (1420-1436)
Title: Foundling Hospital
Date: 1419
Location: Florence (Italy)
Additional info: architect- Brunelleschi
Sig:
–Three Key points-
• appearance of symmetry
• a return to the classical style & orders
• and medieval details
–Characteristic of Hopedale dei Innocenti-
• site was irregular/ used false symmetry to straighten perspective to give allusion of symmetry
• roundels
• spandrels
• shallow domes in classical style restrained architrave/ornamental
• moldings used around windows
• frescos
–This building introduced-
• beauty
• clarity
• purity
• spatial orientation
Title: San Lorenzo Church & Old Sacristy
Date: 1421-1460
Location: Florence
Additional info: architect- Brunelleschi, patron- Medici family
significance:
- indentives
- edges and lines articulate in dark stone
- flat web
- rib dome
Title: San Lorenzo Church & Old Sacristy
Date: 1421-1460
Location: Florence
Additional info: architect- Brunelleschi, patron- Medici family
Title: San Lorenzo Church & Old Sacristy
Date: 1421-1460
Location: Florence
Additional info: architect- Brunelleschi, patron- Medici family
Title: Palazzo Davanzati
Date: late 14th c.
Location: Florence
Significance:
- tower house
- built in late 1400’s
- loggia on ground floor
- loggia was used for business, trade
- privates space were upstairs
- put emphasis on the streets.
- Still had attitude of midevil time, but also had the public factor.
- opening to a indoor courtyard
- murder holes
- symmetrical/order
- public display of values
- exterior metal rings that were used for the horses to be tethered to
Title: Palazzo Davanzati
Date: late 14th c.
Location: Florence
Title: Palazzo Medici-Riccardi
Date: 1444-1460
Location: Florence
Additional info: architect- Michelozzo, patron- Medici family
Significance:
- new symmetry
- 1444-1460
- filled with lots of windows
- medieval qualities a minarets
- logia at bottom
- rustification
- roman way of zoning
- ground floor was considered as rough space
- grand salon on ground floor for public space
- 3rd floor was family/private space
- attic was service space
- consisted of large households-cousins,daughters, parents, grandparents, etc.
- had windows overlooking the street (salon) became a place for parties and such.
- Town palace replaced the tower house.
- Michael Angelo redid the building.
Title: Palazzo Medici-Riccardi
Date: 1444-1460
Location: Florence
Additional info: architect- Michelozzo, patron- Medici family
Title: Palazzo Medici-Riccardi
Date: 1444-1460
Location: Florence
Additional info: architect- Michelozzo, patron- Medici family
Title: Palazzo Rucellai
Date: ca. 1450-1470
Location: Florence
Additional info: architect- Alberti, patron- Rucellai family
Significance:
- orders are used in correct order
- architraves over windows and doors
- bench for the amenity of the public
- Antiquity being used in a new way
- unfinished edge at the joining of the next building
- evidence of new public order (had a public amenity (a bench))
- had eches in the stone to suggest that this is an old house, built on Roman building foundations… indicating that this family is important and has been here since Roman times.
Title: Palazzo Rucellai
Date: ca. 1450-1470
Location: Florence
Additional info: architect- Alberti, patron- Rucellai family
Title: Mantua: San Andrea
Date: 1470-1472, completed 1481
Location: Mantua
Additional info: architect- Alberti, patron- Gonzaga family
Significance:
- church built over an already existing monastery
- colorless
- church was rebuilt in 1470
- communal rulers-Gonzaga Family
- the churches focus was to tend to the communal aspect of the public
- catholic model of a church
- longitudinal and central nave
- side aisles for circulation
- side chapels and tombs
- height for clerestory windows
- temple front of a medieval church
- first introduction of the porch
- framed the town clock tower and hall separated by building
- pilasters on dado Blocks
- porch temple front with Tympanum
- arch is interrupted by the pilasters being in front of it
- basilica form of great mass
- directional light
- Lighting effects- lights from the side chapels reveal them and direct focus to the center
- exedra
Title: Mantua: San Andrea
Date: 1470-1472, completed 1481
Location: Mantua
Additional info: architect- Alberti, patron- Gonzaga family
Title: Mantua: San Andrea
Date: 1470-1472, completed 1481
Location: Mantua
Additional info: architect- Alberti, patron- Gonzaga family
Title: San Maria in San Satiro
Date: 1482
Location: Milan
Additional info: architect- Barmante, patron- Ludovico Sforza
Title: San Maria in San Satiro
Date: 1482
Location: Milan
Additional info: architect- Barmante, patron- Ludovico Sforza
Title: the Tempietto (San Pietro in Montorio)
Date: 1504
Location: Rome
Additional info: architect- Bramante, patron- Queen Isabella and King Ferdinand of Spain
Title: the Tempietto (San Pietro in Montorio)
Date: 1504
Location: Rome
Additional info: architect- Bramante, patron- Queen Isabella and King Ferdinand of Spain
Title: the Tempietto (San Pietro in Montorio)
Date: 1504
Location: Rome
Additional info: architect- Bramante, patron- Queen Isabella and King Ferdinand of Spain
Title: Florence: S. Lorenzo Int.: New Sacristy: Medici Chapel
Date: 1519-27 & 1530-4
Location: Florence (Italy)
Location: Italy
Description: By Michelangelo
Creator: Michelangelo Buonarroti, 1475-1564
Title: Medici Chapel: Tomb of Lorenzo de’Medici
Date: 1520-34
Description: Florence, S. Lorenzo
Title: Florence: S. Lorenzo plan and section
Laurentian Library
Date: 1524-50
Location: Florence (Italy)
Description: by Michelangelo
Title: Florence: S. Lorenzo plan and section
Laurentian Library
Date: 1524-50
Location: Florence (Italy)
Description: by Michelangelo
Title: Florence: S. Lorenzo plan and section
Laurentian Library
Date: 1524-50
Location: Florence (Italy)
Description: by Michelangelo
Title: Mantua: Palazzo del Te: Ext.: raking view of facade
Date: 1525-1535
Location: Mantua (Italy)
Subject: Gonzaga family
Creator: Sir Christopher Wren; Restorer: Cecil Brown
Culture: Baroque
Title: St. Lawrence Jewry
Work Type: Architecture
Date: 1670-1687; bombed 1941
Location: United Kingdom
Location: London
Creator: Wren, Christopher, Sir, 1632-1723
Title: London: St. Bride: ext.: Steeple
Date: 1670-78
Location: London (England)
Creator: Sir Christopher Wren; restorer: Sir Albert E. Richardson
Culture: Baroque
Title: St.James’s Church Piccadilly
Work Type: Architecture
Date: Originally: 1700; rebuilt: 1968
Creator: Sir Christopher Wren; tower: James Gibbs
Culture: Baroque
Title: St. Clement Danes
Work Type: Architecture
Date: 1680; bombed 1941; rebuilt as Royal Air Force Memorial church
Creator: Wren, Christopher, Sir, 1632-1723
Title: London: St. Paul’s Cathedral Aerial View
Date: 1675-1711
Location: London (England)
Creator: Wren, Christopher, Sir, 1632-1723
Title: London: St. Paul’s Cathedral Plan
Date: 1675-1711
Location: London (England)
Creator: Wren, Christopher, Sir, 1632-1723
Title: Plan-Design for St. Paul’s: Cathedral (pre-fire – unexecuted)
Location: London (England)
Creator: Wren, Christopher, Sir, 1632-1723
Title: London: St. Paul’s Cathedral Int.: nave to east
Date: 1675-1711
Location: London (England)
Creator: Wren, Christopher, Sir, 1632-1723
Title: London: St. Paul’s Cathedral: Ext.: West Front
Date: 1675-1711
Location: London (England)
Creator: Various architects
Culture: Renaissance
Title: Basilica of St.Peter
Work Type: Architecture
Date: 1506-1612
Creator: Bernini, Gian Lorenzo, 1598-1680
Title: Vatican: Baldacchino: overall view on central axis, daylight
Date: 1624-33
Location: Rome
Creator: Bernini, Gian Lorenzo, 1598-1680
Title: Rome: S. Maria della Vittoria Int: Cornaro Chapel altar
Date: c.1647-51
Location: Rome
Creator: Bernini, Gianlorenzo, Italian
Title: Cornaro Chapel
Date: 1642-1652
Location: Church of Santa Maria della Vittoria, Rome
Creator: Borromini, Francesco, Italian
Title: San Carlo alle Quattro Fontane, Rome: exterior, front facade
Date: 1665-1668
Location: Rome, Italy
Creator: Borromini, Francesco, 1599-1667
Title: Rome: S. Carlo alle Quatro Fontane plan from Portoghesi
Date: c.1638-41
Location: Rome
Creator: Borromini, Francesco, 1599-1667
Creator:
Title: Rome: S. Carlo alle Quattro Fontane Int: from lantern to pavement
Date: c.1638-41
Location: Rome
Title: Steingaden: Die Wies Pilgrimage Church: Ext.: N elevation
Date: 1746-54
Location: Steingaden (Germany)
Title: Steingaden: Die Wies Pilgrimage Church Int.: choir arcade clerestory
Date: 1746-54
Location: Steingaden (Germany)
Title: Rome: Piazza del Popolo Aerial view
Date: c.1670-90
Location: Rome
Title: Rome: Piazza del Popolo View from North 3 radiating streets & churches by Rainaldi
Location: Rome
Subject: Rome–Piazza del Popolo
Title: Rome: Piazza del Campidoglio: reconstruction drawing
Title: Piazza del Campidoglio
Location: Rome
Creator: Michelangelo Buonarroti, 1475-1564
Title: Rome: Piazza del Campidoglio: plan
Date: begun 1561
Location: Rome
Creator: Michelangelo Buonarroti, Florentine, 1475-1564
Title: Palazzo del Senatore: principal facade, view from west [completed ca. 1600 by Martino Longhi after earlier designs as part of the Piazza del Campidoglio (Capitoline Hill) project, begun ca. 1539]
Location: Rome, Italy
