Architecture of Italy (Reference Guides to National Architecture)
Jean Castex
Language: English
Pages: 288
ISBN: 0313320861
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
Covering all regions of Italy―from Turin's Palace of Labor in northern Italy to the Monreale Cathedral and Cloister in Sicily―and all periods of Italian architecture―from the first-century Colosseum in Rome to the Casa Rustica apartments built in Milan in the 1930s―this volume examines over 70 of Italy's most important architectural landmarks. Writing in an authoritative yet engaging style, Jean Castex, professor of architectural history at the Versailles School of Architecture, describes the features, functions, and historical importance of each structure. Besides idetifying location, style, architects, and periods of initial construction and major renovations, the cross-referenced and illustrated entries also highlight architectural and historical terms explained in the Glossay and conclude with a useful listing of further information resources. The volume also offers ready-reference lists of entries by location, architectural style, and time period, as well as a general bibliography, a detailed subject index, and a comprehensive introductory overview of Italian architecture.
Entries cover major architectural structures as well as smaller sites, including everything from the well-known dome of St. Peter's at the Vatican to the Fiat Lingotto Plant in Turin. Ideal for college and high school students, as well as for interested general readers, this comprehensive look at the architecture of Italy is an indispensable addition to every architectural reference collection.
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And four windows with ogee openings. This sort of composition typifies the visual miracle of Venice: an evanescence caused by humidity in the atmosphere and the glittering reflections off the water that create on the buildings a chromatic, dancing sense of movement of singular beauty. The Saracenic crenellation that crowns the building dissolves the façade into the hazy sky. Marino Contarini, Procurator (public prosecutor) of Saint Mark, belonged to a patrician family and held one of the most.
Materials. The façade of the cathedral probably reflects Lombard freestanding galleries and is made of a glittering white limestone of the best quality. Because it was also used for the baptistery, the amount of limestone needed was so great that a canal was built to transport it from the quarries in Monte Pisano to the building site. Church of the Autostrada 27 The baptistery was begun in 1152 by the builder Diotisalvi but was not completed until a second building campaign from 1250 to 1265.
The third and fourth centuries. Among them was a young girl, perhaps twelve or thirteen years of age, who suffered martyrdom on the January 21 in a year that is only vaguely preserved by tradition as perhaps the fourth persecution of Diocletian in 305. Agnes, whose name means “chastity,” was venerated as an example of purity and faith. Although very little is known about her, local tradition added many legendary elements to her story. It is not certain how she was martyred because there are.
Restrained harmony of its interior and the extravagantly complex decoration of its exterior. The east end is particularly florid, with three stories of Norman interlaced arches crossed by horizontal friezes, medallions filling in the spaces between, and Muslim pointed arches over the windows. On the west end, the entrance to the basilica is marked by two blocky tower bases, one unfinished, that flank a portico that was not added until 1770. The interior of the Cathedral combines a basilican nave.
Demolished that archaeologists posit that a massive earthquake, not human action, was responsible for their destruction. The buildings were forgotten and not rediscovered until around 1550 and later on by travelers in the eighteenth century. Some of the temples were rebuilt; some columns still remain scattered on the ground waiting to be re-erected. The splendor of the temples at Selinus contrasted sharply with the simplicity of the houses. Most of them had rudimentary foundations that consisted.