ABC/240 - The Architecture of the Renaissance in Italy

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ABC/240

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The Architecture of the Renaissance in Italy

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  • 1901 (Creation)

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(fl.1898)

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Architect and associate of the Royal Institute of British Architects.
Director of Architecture and Lecturer at the Glasgow School of Art.

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A small volume that gives a general view of the Architecure of the Renaissance in Italy. The text is accompanied by 64 collotype plates and 98 smaller illustrations (drawings, sections, elevations and plans) in the text. Buildings included: The Cathedral, Como; Siena Cathedral; Bapistery of St. John, Florence; Santa Maria del Fiore, The Cathedral, Florence; The Pazzi Chapel, Santa Croce, Florence; San Lorenzo, Florence; Church of the Badia di Fiesole, near Florence; Santo Spirito, Florence; Santissima Annunziata, Florence; Spedale degli Innocenti, Florence; Palazzo Strozzi, Florence; Palazzo Medici, Florence; Sant' Antonio, Padua; Santa Maria delle Carceri, Florence; Sacristy, Santo Spirito, Florence; Santo Salvator, Florence; Sant' Agostino, Rome; Tomb of Bishop Tommaso Piccolomini, Siena; Certosa di Pavia; Santa Maria delle Grazie, Milan; Sacristy of Santa Maria near San Satiro, Milan; Scuola di San Marco, Venice; Capella Gesu, Sant' Anastasia, Verona; Palazzo Vendramini, Venice; Confraternita di San Rocco, Venice; The Loggia, Brescia; Palazzo Bevilacqua-Vicenzi, Bologna; The Cancellaria Palace, Rome; Sibyl and the Emperor Augustus; Farnese Palace, Rome; Palazzo Massimi alle Colonne, Rome; St. Peter's, Rome; Villa Chigi, Farnesina, Rome; Palazzo Albergati, Bologna; Chiesa del'Ospedale, Siena; San Michele in Bosco, Bologna; Palazzo Sacrati, Ferrara; The Grimani Palace, Venice; Palazzo Cornaro della Ca' Grande, Venice; Libreria Vecchia, Venice; Tomb of Lorenzo de' Medici, Florence; The Basilica Palladiana, Vicenza; Casa del Diavolo, Vicenza; Palazzo del Consiglio, Vicenza; Palazzo Poto Barbarano, Vicenza; Palazzo Valmarana, Vicenza; The Teatro Olimpico, Vicenza; Santissima Annunziata, Genoa; Palazzo Pesaro, Venice; Palazzo Pitti, Florence; Palazzo Rucellai, Florence; Santa Maria Novella, Florence; Sant' Andrea at Mantua; Sacristy of Church of Santo Spirito, Florence; Church of Santo Salvator del Monte, Florence; The Porta della Carta, Doge's Palace, Venice; Santa Maria dei Miracoli, Venice; Palazzo Cornaro-Spinelli, Venice; Santa Maria Maggiore, Bergamo; Palazzo Fava, Bologna; Casa Tacconi, Bologna; Church of Santo Salvatore, Venice; Triumphal Arch of Alphonso, Naples; Santa Maria della Pace, Rome; Palazzo Giraud, Rome; San Pietro in Montorio, Rome; Palazzo Massimi, Rome; House in Via Giulia, Rome; Palazzo Contarini delle Figuri, Venice; Santa Maria in Organo, Verona; Church at Montepulciano; Bramante's Design for Dome of St. Peter's; Palazzo Spada alla Regola, Rome; Sistine Chapel, Rome; Casa Pollini, Siena; House in Via Baldessare Peruzzi, Siena; Palazzo Albrgati, Bologna; Palazzo Pompei, Verona; Porta del Palio, Verona; Porta Nuova, Verona; La Zecca, Venice; Figure of Mercury from Logetta, Venice; New Sacristy, San Lorenzo, Florence; Mediceo-Laurentian Library, Florence; The Basilica Palladiana, Vicenza; Chiesa del Redentore, Venice; San Sebastiano, Via Appia, Rome; Santa Maria della Salute, Venice.

[believed to be the third edition]

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    Corners slightly scuffed

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    Digitised copy of second edition (1898) available at https://archive.org/details/architectureofre00andeiala

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