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Undergraduate 1
11/09/2010

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Michelangelo
Definition
-cross floor plan St. Peters
-first dome St. peters
-campigdolio-stairs to big building
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Andrea Palladio
Definition
-stonemason
-architect age 30
-"4 books of arch"
-used alot of golden ratio
-Villa barbaro
-Villa foscari
-villa rotunda
-S. Gorgio Maggiore
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Sebastiano Serlio
Definition
- "5 books arch" - ordinary builder - not latin
-French
Term
Dominico Fontana
Definition
-Engineer : vatican obelisk at st peters
-used 38 windlass'
-journal descriptions
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Brunelleschi
Definition
-architect of dome at Florence Cathedral
-double shell of radial concentric ribs
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Donato Bramante
Definition
- S. maria presso s. satiro
-tempieto, rome
-original floor plan of st peters
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Pope Sixtus V
Definition
-urban plan of rome
-27 new fountains and aqueduct
-vertical elements- led eyes to historical monuments
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Christopher Wren
Definition
-most outstanding english baroque
-known after great fire
-plan ready in 9 days
-st pauls cathedral
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Leonardo Da Vinci
Definition
-proportions on human figure
-vitruvian man
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Florence Cathedral
Definition

-1296- tuscany

-dome engineered by brunolleschi

-octagonal dome

 

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St. Peters church
Definition

-original floor plan- bramante 1505

-nave addition- carlo maderno+toward obelisk

-completed dome- Giacomo Della Porto

-Piazza+baldachino+throne- bernini 

-completed greek cross plan- michelangelo

 

-canopy 90 ft high- pantheon portico

-small cupola- vignola

-piazza obliqua + retta

-columns get smaller more vertical emphasis on facade

-massive dome - 16 ribs- not octagonal - taller less outward thrust

Term
Il Gesu
Definition

-Giacomo Vignola 1568

-order society of jesus

review elevation terms

 

 

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Term
[image]
Definition

- Rome, near spanish embassy

- arch : Specchi and M.B. - Sanctis

- begins at fountain, ended at trinita dei monti

-1723

 

Term
[image]
Definition

-1502 - renaissance

-bramante

-centered door was impossible

- circular dome

-tuscan columns

-doric entablature

-perfect proportions

Term
[image]
Definition

- S carlo alle quattro fontane

-also has funky floor plan-thick walls

- Francesco Borromini (bernini rival)

-oval, axis leading to altar

-stretched greek cross plan

-complex plan, equi triangles- interlocking circles

-geometry reliant (no Golden section)

-paired columns

-richly coffered dome +oculus- hexagons-

-facade - concave+convex complex

-praying figures create vertical theme

-undulating entablature

Term
[image]
Definition

Villa Rotunda- 1566

-Palladio

-place- vicenza

-square in plan

-Loggias on all four fronts

-perfect use of golden sections

Term

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Definition

St Pauls Cathedral- 1675

- Wren (life work)

-original "too roman"

-"warrant design" - latin cross design

-woodcarver : Grinling Gibbins

-Ironworker - Jean Jijou

-used triple dome:

dome masonry

cone

wood superstructer covered with lead exterior dome

Term
Golden Section
Definition

series of number

1+1+2+3+5+8+13+17 so on etc...

A is proportional to B, and B is proportional to C

same time A= B+C and so on. 

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