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Architecture in Italy 1400 to 1600 LUDWIG H. HEYDENREICH AND WOLFGANG LOTZ ARCHITECTURE IN ITALY 1400 TO 1600 Translated by Mary Hottinger PUBLISHED BY PENGUIN BOOKS CONTENTS LIST OF FIGURES XI LIST OF PLATES XV FOREWORD XXV MAP xxvii Part One The Quattrocento BY LUDWIG H. HEYDENREICH I. BRUNELLESCHI 2. BRUNELLESCHI S CONTEMPORARIES AND SUCCESSORS IN FLORENCE: MICHELOZZO DI BARTOLOMEO l8 3. BRUNELLESCHl's CONTEMPORARIES AND SUCCESSORS IN FLORENCE: GHIBERTI AND DONATELLO 24 4. ALBERTI 27 5. FLORENCE 1450-1480 39 6. ROME 48 The City: The Capitol, the Lateran, and the Vatican 49 Ecclesiastical Buildings 53 Palazzi 64 7. URBINO 71 8. MANTUA 80 9. VENICE 83 10. LOMBARDY 96 11. EMILIA AND ROMAGNA 114 12. THE FRINGES NORTH AND SOUTH 122 Piedmont and Liguria 122 The South 124 Naples 124 13. FROM THE QUATTROCENTO TO THE CINQUECENTO 130 Epilogue: Leonardo da Vinci 143 vii CONTENTS Part Two The Cinquecento BY WOLFGANG LOTZ 14. CLASSICAL ARCHITECTURE IN ROME: BRAMANTE 149 ~ The Tempietto of S. Pietro in Montorio 150 - The Cloister of S. Maria della Pace 152 Buildings for Julius II 152 The Belvedere Court of the Vatican 153 The Logge 156 - New St Peter's 157 The Choir of S. Maria del Popolo 162 The Palazzo Caprini (Raphael's House) 163 The Santa Casa of Loreto 163 Summary 164 The Designs for St Peter's after Bramante's Death 164 15. CLASSICAL ARCHITECTURE IN ROME: RAPHAEL 167 The Chigi Chapel in S. Maria del Popolo 167 Palazzi 169 The Villa Madama 171 ' St Peter's 173 16. OTHER EARLY-SIXTEENTH-CENTURY BUILDINGS IN ROME AND CENTRAL ITALY 178 ROME 178 Palazzi 178 Churches 181 CENTRAL ITALY 182 S. Maria della Consolazione at Todi 182 The Madonna di S. Biagio at Montepulciano 184 The Palazzo Pandolfini in Florence 186 17. BALDASSARE PERUZZI AND ANTONIO DA SANGALLO THE YOUNGER L88 BALDASSARE PERUZZI 188 ANTONIO DA SANGALLO THE YOUNGER 194 St Peter's 198 The Palazzo Farnese and Other Works 200 18. LOMBARDY AND THE VENETIAN TERRAFERMA 206 Cesare Cesariano 206 The Steccata at Parma 207 Tramello at Piacenza 209 Falconetto at Padua 211 viii CONTENTS 19. SANMICHELI 214 City Gates 215 Palazzi in Verona 216 Palazzi in Venice 220 Churches and Chapels 222 20. GIULIO ROMANO - 227 21. JACOPO SANSOVINO 234 22. MICHELANGELO 24O FLORENCE 240 The Facade of S. Lorenzo 240 The New Sacristy of S. Lorenzo 242 The Laurentian Library 245 The Ricetto 246 ROME 249 The Capitol 249 The Palazzo Farnese 253 St Peter's 254 Late Architectural Projects 257 The Porta Pia 260 <5 S. Maria degli Angeli 260 23.ROME 1550-1600 263 THE PERIOD FROM 1550 TO 1575 263 Pirro Ligorio 264 Vignola 267 Ecclesiastical Architecture 273 THE PERIOD FROM 1575 TO 1600 278 Giacomo della Porta 279 Other Architects 282 24. NORTHERN ITALY: GENOA, MILAN, AND PIEDMONT 287 Galeazzo Alessi in Genoa 287 Cristoforo Lombardino and Domenico Giunti in Milan 291 Alessi's Later Works in Milan 293 Pellegrino Pellegrini 296 The Rebuilding of S. Lorenzo in Milan: Martino Bassi 299 Ascanio Vitozzi in Piedmont 301 25. PALLADIO 303 The Quattro Libri di Architettura 303 Churches 3°6 Secular Architecture 310 Palazzi 312 Villas 313 ix CONTENTS 26. VENICE AND PADUA IN THE LATE SIXTEENTH CENTURY 316 Scamozzi 318 27. TUSCANY I55O-I6OO • 32O Ammannati 320 Vasari 321 Buontalenti 3 23 Bizzarrie 324 NOTES 327 BIBLIOGRAPHY 397 The Plates INDEX 4I5.
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