2012, ISBN: 9781232558828

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustra… More...

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1806 Excerpt: ...the ruined Baths of Dioclesian into a Christian church for the accommodation of the adjoining Carthusian Monastery, and Michel Angelo was appointed architect for that purpose. The undertaking was carried into effect with great credit; and the interior of this church exhibits a striking example of the impression which can be produced by simplicity of form and grandeur of dimension'. Michel Angelo was also employed by the Cardinal Santa Fiore to build a chapel in S. Maria Maggiore, but which remained unfinished in consequence of the Bottari ascribes this gate to Vignola, from the style of Architecture, and from its being erected in the pontificate of Pio IV. when he was in high reputation and esteem. Whether this opinion be correct or not, it is entitled to respect. 'In England I have experienced a striking impression from a simple and-unadorned room; not to make a comparison between it and S. Maria degli Angeli, I mention it for the sake of instancing an example of what may be obtained by simplicity and dimension without any other aid. The room is in Lancaster Castle, appropriated to the use of prisoners, who for slight offences are sentenced to a temporary confinement; it is about sixty-three feet long, having only four plain walls, and making nearly the proportion of a double cube, and is remarkably illustrative of the true feeling of the great first principles of architecture; which are of-so much importance, that when they are once felt and understood, it is not afterwards easy to spoil the effect of grandeur, even by injudicious ornament or the caprice of fashion.' death of the Cardinal, and was afterwards terminated from the original designs by Giacomo della Porta8. During the prosecution of these works by Michel Angelo, the church of St. Peter was not... Weight:0.37 lbs, RareBooksClub.com, 5/14/2012 0:00:00<

ISBN: 9781232558828

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