# Character of Renaissance Architecture/Index

INDEX
Aachen, dome, 11 (cut).
Abutments, lack of, in the dome of Florence cathedral, 22, 23; of dome of St. Peter's, 50 (cut), 53.
Agnolo, Baccio d', his work on the Palazzo Bartolini, Florence, 109; his innovation in framing window openings, 109, 116.
Aisles, treatment of façade over the, in ch. of Santa Maria Novella, Florence, 37; in ch. of Sant' Agostino, Rome, 74.
Alberti, Leon Batista, said by Milizia to be regarded as one of the principal restorers of the architecture of antiquity, 35; his use of the Roman triumphal-arch design as a model for his façades, 38, 39-43 (cuts); applied himself to writing on, rather than practising architecture, 107, 108; his influence seen in Bramante's works, 112; ch. of Santa Maria Novella, Florence, 35, 41, 42; ch. of Sant' Andrea of Mantua, 38-42 (cut and plate), 53; Palazzo Rucellai, Florence, 107, 108 (cut).
Angelo, Michael, 90; design for the tomb of Pope Julius II., 46; his work on St. Peter's, 53-65 (cuts), 237; date of his appointment as architect of St. Peter's, 53; his alterations of Bramante's plan, 53, 70; his admiration for the dome of Florence cathedral, 55; quoted on the Pantheon dome, 55; defects in his scheme, 63, 64; his makeshifts, 66; windows of Palazzo Farnese, Rome, 116, 117 (cut).
Angle, Roman treatment of the, 79 (cut); pilasters on the, 78-81 (cut).
Arabesque, Renaissance in imitation of Roman, 167 (cuts).
Arcades, of the court of Palazzo Farnese, use of Roman combination of arch and entablature, 118; cloister of Santa Maria della Pace, Rome, 119; château of La Rochefoucauld, France, Flamboyant arches framed with pilasters, 188.
Arch, the radical nature of the change wrought in architecture by the introduction of, was never grasped by the imperial Roman designers, 37; the Roman triumphal, used as a model of Renaissance façades, 38, 39-43 (cuts); the Roman arch and entablature scheme applied to a continuous arcade, 118, 119; of Flamboyant depressed or three-centred form, 184, 188.
Architectural carving of the Renaissance, 167-178 (cuts). See Carving, Architectural.
Architectural shams, use of, in the Renaissance, 32, 121, 132.
Architecture, the communal and individual spirit in, 4, 5; its division into three distinctive styles and two classes, 6, 7; proper meaning of the term, 15$^2$; structural integrity a fundamental prerequisite of good, 24; use of structural members without structural meaning violates the true principles of architectural design, 68; mechanical rules cannot reach the law of the proportions of a genuine work of art, 133, 207, 249; conscious effort to be original in, is inevitably disastrous, 206; the noblest, has always been mainly a social, communal, and national, not a personal product, 206.
Arezzo, church of Santissima Annunziatta, 83; nave, 83 (cut).
Arnolfo, his design for the dome of Florence cathedral, 13 (cut), 16.
Artificial elements in architectural ornamentation, use of, 172.
Assisi, church of Santa Maria degli Angeli, 89; date, 89; general plan, 89; chapels, 90; orders, 90 (cut); piers, 90 (cut); ressauts, 90; influence of St. Peter's in, 90; façade, 90.
Athens, the Propylæa, spacing of the columns of the order, 113; National Museum, leafage of capital from Epidaurus, 174 (cut).
Attic wall, use in an interior as a support for vaulting, 151, 243; of the façade of the chapel of the Pazzi, Florence, 31; of Michael Angelo's dome of St. Peter's, Rome, 54,
Baalbek, Pantheon of, 29$^2$; entablature, 29$^2$; breaking of the pediment, 94, 95 (cut), 117; ressauts, 95.
Baccio d'Agnolo, architect of tower of Santo Spirito, Florence, 82.
Balconies, with balustrades, 160.
Baldinucci, Lettera di Filippo Baldinucci Intorno al modo di dar Proporzione alle Figure, etc., 249$^2$; quoted on rules of proportion in art, 250.
Barley, ear of, in Renaissance and in Greek carving compared, 169 (plate and cut).
​Barrozzi, Giacomo. See Vignola.
Beltrami, Luca, Il Pantheon, 89$^1$.
Benedict XIV, Pope, his inquiries as to the safety of the dome of St. Peter's, 60.
Bernini, Wren's meeting with him at Paris, 233.
Berty, Adolphe, Les Grands Architectes Français de la Renaissance, 194$^1$, 200$^1$; quoted on Lescot, 194, 196$^1$; quoted on De l'Orme, 200$^1$.
Bettini, Giovanni, his work on the church of Santa Maria Novella, Florence, 35.
Blind arcade, forms proper decoration for mediæval interiors, 29.
Bloomfield, Reginald, A History of Renaissance Architecture in England, 218, 232$^2$; quoted on Inigo Jones, 232.
Bologna, Palazzo Bevilacqua, 165; window openings of mediæval form without central shaft, 165. Bourges, house of Jacques Coeur, a forerunner of the Renaissance châteaux, 180.
Bramante, his birth and early work, 44; the Tempietto of San Pietro in Montorio, 44-46 (cut) , 239; his work on St. Peter's, Rome, 47-53 (cuts), 63, 64, 70, 236; his use of the Pantheon and Basilica of Maxentius as models, 49-52 (cuts); alteration of his scheme by others, 49$^3$, 53-55, 64, 70; weakness of his scheme, 52; accused of poor workmanship, 64; ch. of Santa Maria della Consolazione at Todi, 74-77 (cuts); his work on the cathedral of Como, 144; ch. of Santa Maria delle Grazie, Milan, 140, 142; ch. of San Satiro, Milan, 138 (cut); cloister of Santa Maria della Pace, Rome, 119; Palazzo Cancelleria, Rome, 112-114 (cut).
Brescia, Palazzo Comunale, 163, of the broletto type, 163, window openings, 164; Palazzo Martinengo, peculiar and meaningless style of window opening, 166 (cut); Palazzo Municipale, leafage of capitals, 176 (cut).
Brunelleschi, the dome of Florence cathedral, 10-25, 22, 48, 50, 54, 55; his own account of the dome quoted, 18$^1$, 22$^1$; his great ability, 21; his scaffolding, 21$^3$; why he led the way in a wrong direction, 22, 25, 63; character of his work in general, 26; his use of the orders, 26; the chapel of the Pazzi, Florence, 26-32 (cuts), 175; ch. of San Lorenzo, Florence, 33; ch. of Santo Spirito, Florence, 33; the Pitti palace, Florence, 106; Palazzo Pazzi or the Quaratesi, Florence, 106; leafage of capital, 17s (cut).
Bullant, Reigle Géneralle de Architecture, 192$^1$; his reproduction of the order of a Roman temple in the portico of the château of Écouen, 192.
Buttresses, in support of domes, 10, 53; of St. Peter's, Rome, 53 (cut), 55, 56, 59; of a circular Gothic vault, 57$^1$; concealing of, in St. Paul's, London, 244, 245 (cut).
Byzantine architecture, 6, 7; term loosely applied, 29$^1$; the dome on pendentives is the distinguishing structural feature of, 29$^1$; their domes were properly constructed, 63; scheme prevails in Renaissance architecture, 74.
Caen, church of St. Pierre, exterior of apse with Lombard Renaissance details applied to a Flamboyant structural scheme, 214.
Cambridge, England, Caius College, gate of honor, neo-classic features, 223.
Carving, architectural, of the Renaissance, 167-178 (cuts):
    Sculpture of the human figure on Renaissance buildings has little proper architectural character, 167.
    Relief carving, 167-178 (cuts); pictorial treatment of, 158; a great deal is in close imitation of Roman models, 167 (cut), 171, 172; the best is superior to that of ancient Rome, 168, 170, 176; conventionalization of forms, 169 (plate and cut); formal convolutions of, 170, 171; the finish, in many cases, mere surface smoothing, 170, 171; two schemes which are used with wearisome repetition, 171; arrangement of composition and treatment of details often artificial and inorganic, 172 (cut), 173, (cuts); the finest forms those of foliation, 170, 174; leafage of capitals, 175-178 (cuts); artificial convention of the ridges which mark the subdivisions of the leaf surface, 176 (cuts); the grotesque is uniformly weak and characterless, 176-178 (cuts); Putti are without particular merit as design, 178.
Casati, I Capi d' Arte di Bramante da Urbino nel Milanese, 138$^1$, 142$^1$.
Cecchini, Opinione Intorno lo Stato dellagran Cupola del Duomo di Firenze, 24$^1$; cited on the stability of the dome of Florence cathedral, 23$^8$, 24$^1$.
Celled vault, a Gothic circular, 20, 21; nature of its construction, 56-59 (cuts).
Chains, binding, 12, 22, 74; of the dome of Florence cathedral, 19, 24$^1$; of St. Peter's, Rome, 59, 60.
Chambers, Sir William, Treatise on the Decorative Part of Civil Architecture, 134$^1$
Chimney-stacks in shape of Doric columns in Elizabethan houses, 217 (cut), 223.
​Church, the, in Middle Ages and Renaissance period, 1-3.
Church architecture, of the Florentine Renaissance, 26-43 (cuts); of the Roman Renaissance, 66-101 (cuts); of the Renaissance in North Italy, 135-153.
Clamps, metal, used in masonry, 22$^2$; of St. Peter's dome, 60.
Classic inspiration in the Renaissance, 4, 97, 119.
Classic models, the classic style which was followed in the Renaissance was that of the decadent Greek schools as represented in Roman copies, 4, 247; misuse of, 33, 84.
Claudian aqueduct, 106.
Coffering, Roman, in interior of church of Sant' Andrea of Mantua, 39.
Colonnade of Bramante's scheme for St. Peter's dome, 51, 56.
Columns, small, free-standing, placed by Sansovino on each side of the pier to bear the archivolt, 123, 130, often spoken of as an innovation of Sansovino and Paliadio, but instances of it occur in Graeco-Roman architecture of Syria, 131 (cut); peculiar form of, claimed by De l'Orme as his own invention, 201-206 (cut), practically the same column occurs in Serlio's book, 203 (cut), an ancient adumbration of this form occurs in the Porta Maggiore, Rome, 205, other Italian examples of the same column, 205, 206, mention of its use in England, 221, 222, 229; notion that the Ionic order was designed after female proportions, 207.
Communal spirit of the Middle Ages, 4, 5.
Como, cathedral, 144-149 (cuts); description of exterior, 144; details are mediæval Lombard modified by neo-classic elements, 144; portals, illogical use of arch and entablature in, 144, 145 (cuts), 149; window openings, variety of illogical forms in, 148 (cut); tapering jamb shafts, 149.
Consoles, reversed over the aisle compartments of an exterior, 37, 74, 95.
Constantinople, Hagia Theotokos, dome, 10 (cut); church of St. Sophia, dome mentioned, 10.
Conventionalization of forms in relief carving of the Renaissance, 168 (cut).
Corinthian capitals, 84.
Corner pilasters, 78-81 (cut).
Cornice, of St. Peter's, Rome, dwarfs the effect of altitude, 68, 92; breaking of, 93-95 (cut).
Cosimo de' Medici, 103, no.
Court, circular, of Vignola, influences De l'Orme and Jones in building the courts of the Tuileries and Whitehall, 130, 131.
Cunningham, The Lives of the Most Eminent British Painters, Sculptors, and Architects, 217$^2$, 226 ff.; quoted on the unsubstantial structures of the Renaissance in England, 217.
De l'Orme, Philibert, Le Premier Tome de l' Architecture, 200$^2$ ff., 209; a man with little artistic genius, 200, 209; overestimated by Viollet le Duc, 200$^1$, 207$^8$; Adolphe Berty on, 200$^1$; studied the antique in Rome, 200; his work on the Tuileries, 200-207 (cut); peculiar form of column claimed by him as his own invention, 201-206 (cut); his doorway, with use of the peculiar column, 203 (cut); description of doorway quoted from his book, 209 (cut).
Delaborde, Viscount, quoted, 7$^3$. Della Porta, 73; façade of ch. of the Gesù, Rome, 95 (cut).
Dolcebono, architect. Church of Monastero Maggiore, Milan, 142, 143.
Domes, construction of early, 10-15; hidden externally by drum and timber roof, 10, II (cut); Byzantine, on pendentives, 10 (cut), 29$^1$; polygonal, 12, 24$^8$; pointed in outline, 12, 14, 16, 52; octagonal, 13, 14, 16; hemispherical, 24$^8$, 52; Arabian, 12$^1$; binding chains, 12, 241; the thrust, 15$^1$, 24, 52; why a dome cannot have the character of a Gothic vault, 20, 21, 56-59 (cuts); proper mode of constructing, settled by the ancient Romans and Byzantines, 63; attempt of the architects of the Renaissance to solve the great dome problem, 241, 242; most modern domes modelled after St. Peter's and St. Paul's are wooden constructions, 242; of Hagia Theotokos, Constantinople, 10 (cut); of Florence cathedral, 10-25, 65, design of Arnolfo, 13, modelled on dome of Baptistery, 16, details of construction, 16-20, magnitude of the work, 21, stability of, 23; of Florence Baptistery, details of construction, 14 (cut), dome of Florence cathedral derived from, 16, 20; vault of the chapel of the Pazzi, Florence, not a dome, 27 (cut), 28, 56; ch. of San Lorenzo, Florence, 34; vault of ch. of Santo Spirito, Florence, 34; St. Paul's, London, rejected scheme, 235 (cut), likeness to Bramante's scheme for St. Peter's, Rome, 236 (cut), likeness to Michael Angelo's scheme, 237, present structure, 239 (plate), recalls Bramante's San Pietro in Montorio, Rome, 239, structural system of, 239-242 (cut); ch. of Santa Maria delle Grazie, Milan, 140 (cut); vault of the chapel of St. Peter Martyr, ch. of Sant' Eustorgio, Milan, like vault of chapel of the Pazzi, Florence, 142; ch.
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Domestic architecture. See Palace architecture.
Doorway, of De l'Orme, 203 (cut); of Serlio, 203 (cut).
Drum, of a dome, raised above the springing of the dome, 10-14, 23; dome set on the top of, 12; of the dome of Florence cathedral, 16; the central vault of the chapel of the Pazzi, Florence, 27 (cut); the Tempietto of San Pietro in Montorio, Rome, 44; St. Peter's, Rome, 50 (cut), 53. Du Cerceau, engraving of the Fountain of the Innocents, Paris, 195 (cut); work of Lescot on the Louvre, 197 (cut); work of De l'Orme on the Tuileries, 201 (cut), 2212; project for the château of Charleval, 209.
Durm, Die Dom Kuppel in Florens, 191; Die Baukunst der Renaissance in Italien, 201; cited on domes, 201.
East end of the Redentore, Venice, 100, 101.
Elizabethan Art, 216-225 (cuts) . See Renaissance in England.
England, Renaissance in. Architecture of the, 216-246 (cuts). See Renaissance in England.
    Burghley House, chimneys in the form of a Doric order, 217 (cut); Cranborne Manor-House, porch and façade illustrate Elizabethan neo-classic ornamentation, 221, 222 (cut); Hardwick Castle, mention of, 217; Kirby Hall, façades of the court, 218-220 (cut), pilasters supporting nothing but miniature pedestals, 219, window openings said to have been inserted by Inigo Jones, 218, porch, description of, 220, its scheme a variation of Lescot's Louvre pavilions, 220, gables of Flemish or Dutch origin, 220 (cut); Longford Castle, 221; French influence in, 221; resemblance to château of Chambord, France, 221; Lower Walterstone Hall, window illustrating Elizabethan neoclassic ornamentation, 221 (cut); Stanway House, gatehouse portal, neo-classic features, 223; Tixall Castle, gatehouse, neo-classic ornamentation, 222; Westwood Park, porch in the form of a Roman triumphal arch, 223; Wollaton Hall, neo-classic ornamentation, 223, chimney-stacks in the semblance of Doric columns, 223, portal, 224.
Entablature, passing through the arch impost, 29, 30 (cut); in Roman art, 29, 30, 37; springing of a vault from, 29, 68; Vignola's, 85 (cut); removing of, between the ressauts, 117 (cut); Roman arch and entablature scheme applied to a continuous arcade, 118, 119; breaking of, 134 (cut), 199 (cut); used with the arch illogically in the portals of north Italy, 144, 145 (cuts); ch. of Santissima Annunziatta, Arezzo, 83 (cut); the chapel of the Pazzi, Florence, running through the impost, 29 (cut); façade of ch. of Sant' Andrea of Mantua, 40 (cut); ch. of Sant' Andrea di Ponte Molle, Rome, the two parts which have no raison d'être under a vault have been omitted, 89 (cut); ch. of San Biagio, Montepulciano, Rome, 78 (cut); the Gesù, Rome, has no ressauts except at the crossing, 92; ch. of St. Paul outside the wall, Rome, 30$^1$; St. Peter's, Rome, interior, dwarfs the effect of its altitude, 68; facade of ch. of San Francesco della Vigna, Venice, 100; of ch. of San Giorgio Maggiore, Venice, placed above small pilasters of the archivolts, 98; The Redentore, Venice, 101; Todi, 75, 76 (cut).
Entablature block, in Roman art, 30, 37; in ch. of San Lorenzo, Florence, 33 (cut): in façade of Santa Maria Novella, Florence, 36 (cut); in nave of ch. of Sant' Agostino, Rome, 72 (cut).
Entasis of columns in church of San Giorgio Maggiore, Venice, 98.
Façades, of the Badia of Fiesole, 32 (cut); chapel of the Pazzi, Florence, 30 (cut); ch. of Santa Maria Novella, Florence, 35 (cut); old St. Paul's cathedral, London, incongruous mixture of, 230-232 (cut); Whitehall, London, banqueting hall, 227 (plate), Westminster front, 229 (cut), circular court, 230; ch. of Sant' Andrea of Mantua, 39-42 (cut); ch. of the Gesù, Rome, Vignola's, 92-95 (cuts), Delia Porta's, 95 (cut); ch. of Sant' Andrea di Ponte Molle, Rome, 86-88 (cut), 92; ch. of Sant' Agostino, Rome, 74 (cut); Palazzo Cancelleria, Rome, description of, 112-114 (cut), projecting bays at each end, 113, portal of almost Greek purity of design, 114; Palazzo Massimi, Rome, 114-116 (cut); ch. of San Giorgio Maggiore, Venice, 99 (cut); Scuola di San Marco (Venice), 156-158 (cut); ch. of Santa Maria dei Miracole, Venice, a marvel of excellence in mechanical execution, 151, 152 (cut).
​Fiesole, church of the Badia, façade, 32 (cut); likeness to chapel of the Pazzi, 32.
Filarete, Antonio, Ospedale Maggiore, Milan, 164 (cut) ; window openings, 165 (cut); arabesque on door-valves of St. Peter's, Rome, 170 (cut).
Fine Arts, of an epoch, the expression of its conditions, 1, 3; of the Renaissance, spirit of, 3, 4, 6; of the Middle Ages, spirit of, 2, 5.
Flamboyant Gothic style of Castle Château-dun, 184 (cut).
Florence, condition in Middle Ages and in Renaissance, 2, 3; Board of Works of Florence cathedral, 21, 22$^1$.
    Badia, façade, 32 (cut).
    Baptistery, dome, details of construction, 14 (cut); forms inspiration for dome of the Florence cathedral, 16, 20; entablature, 30$^1$; attic wall, 31; Ghiberti gates, inorganic composition with over-naturalism in details, 173 (cut).
    Cathedral of, dome, 10-25 (design of Arnolfo, 13 (cut); modelled on the dome of the Baptistery, 16, 20, 50; details of construction, 16-20; its rib system gives it nothing of Gothic character, 20; shell, 16, 54; rib system, 16 (cuts), 55; binding chains, 19, 22; magnitude of the work, 21, 22; deliberations of the Board of Works, 21$^1$, 22$^1$; scaffolding, 21$^3$; is fundamentally false in principle, 22, 23, 24; stability of, 23; lantern, 25; has nothing of classic Roman character, 25; its octagonal form, 55$^1$; its fine features, 65.
    Chapel of the Pazzi, 26-32 (cuts); its central vault, 27 (cut), 56; interior, 28-30 (cut); Byzantine in form, 29; orders of, 29, 31, 32; entablature, 29, 30 (cut); portico, 30 (cut), 134; panelled attic wall, 31, 81; false use of the orders, 109; leafage of capitals, 175.
    Church of Santa Croce, pulpit, carving of, 171, 172 (cut); leafage of capitals, 176; see Chapel of the Pazzi.
    Church of Sant' Jacopo Soprarno, 32.
    Church of San Lorenzo, 33; celled vault, 33; mediæval features, 34; piers, 34 (cut).
    Church of Santa Maria del Fiore, false front of wood mentioned, 120.
    Church of Santa Maria Novella, 35; façade, 35-38 (cut), 42; orders, 35 (cut), 112; mediæval features, 35, 38; portal, 36 (cut), 41; tower, 82.
    Church of Santo Spirito, 33; spire-like tower of, 81 (cut); pseudo-classic details, 82; lantern, 83.
    Museum, Roman arabesque used as model for Renaissance, 167 (cut); pilaster with carving of a meaningless and artificial composition, 173 (cut).
    Palazzo Bartolini, 109, window openings, 109 (cut), 116; Palazzo Gondi, 107, arcades of the court, 107, leafage of capitals, 176 (cut); Palazzo Guardagni, 107; Palazzo Mozzi, 102; the Pitti palace, its façade as monotonous as the Claudian aqueduct, which it resembles, 106; the Quaratesi, 106; Palazzo Riccardi, 103 (cut and plate), moderation shown in, 103, no, façade, 103, window openings, 103, arcades of interior court, 104; Palazzo Rucellai, 107, 108 (cut), application of classic orders, 108, 112, window openings, 109, rustication of the masonry, 109, resemblance between Palazzo Cancelleria and, 112, 114; Palazzo Strozzi, 106, cornice, 106, fortress-like character, 106; the Strozzino, 106; Palazzo Vecchio, 102.
Florentine Renaissance, church architecture of the, 26-43 (cuts and plate); palace architecture, 102-111 (cuts and plate); see Renaissance architecture.
Foliation, the finest feature of Renaissance architectural carving, 174.
Fontana, Carlo, cited on dome of Pisa, 13$^1$; cited on stability of Florence dome, 23$^3$; quoted on Michael Angelo, 55$^1$, 24$^1$; cited on safety of St. Peter's dome, 59; Il Tempio Vaticano e sua Origine, etc., Discritto dal Cav. Carlo Fontana, etc., 71$^2$; cited on short-sighted admiration of St. Peter's, 71; cited on binding chains, 74.
France, Châteaux of, see Renaissance in France.
    Castle Châteaudun, portal and bay in the Flamboyant Gothic style, 184 (cut).
    Château of Azay le Rideau, 182-187 (cuts); general description, 182-184; portal and bay of characteristic French Renaissance design in which neo-classic details are worked into a pseudo-Gothic scheme, 184-187 (cut); window openings, 186; one of the finest monuments of the early Renaissance in the country, 187; portal, 214.
    Château of Blois, cornice with neo-classic and mediæval elements combined, 182, (cut); court façade, 188-190 (cut); superimposed orders of pilasters of the court façade ornamented with bead mouldings, 188 (cut); polygonal stair-case tower, 190 (cut); garden façade, 190; open gallery of, 191.
    Château of Chambord, its multiplicity of soaring features resembles a late Gothic building, 191; resemblance of Longford Castle, England, to, 221. ​
    Château of Charleval, 209-213 (cuts); exterior façade, pilasters which have no entablature to support, 210; unmeaning variation of the detail of the several bays, 210; interior façade, the division of the building into two stories not expressed on the outside, 211; court of Kirby Hail, England, resembles, 218.
    Château of Chenonceaux, portal where Flamboyant idea is treated in neo-classic details, 188 (cut).
    Château of Ecouen, architectural scheme is comparatively simple, 191; in the portico of the court is reproduced the order of a Roman temple without admixture of mediæval details or Italian corruptions, 192.
    Château of Fontainebleau follows the general character of early French Renaissance, 191.
    Château of La Rochefoucauld, arcades of the court where Flamboyant arches are framed with pilasters, 188; open gallery, 191.
    Château of St. Germain en Laye, 192, 193; buttresses, 192; window openings, 192.
    Villers Cotterets, column claimed by De l'Orme as his own invention, 202 (cut).
French architecture. Renaissance influence upon, 179.
French Renaissance. See Renaissance in France.
Frieze, problem of the arrangement of metope and triglyph at the end of, 121, 122 (cuts); of library of St. Mark, Venice, 123 (cut).
Galleries, open, covered by extension of the main roof in French châteaux, 191.
Genoa, portal containing columns claimed by De l'Orme as his own invention, 206.
Geymiiller, Baron H. von. Die ursprünglichen Entwürf für Sanct Peter in Rom, 47$^2$. 49$^2$.
Gisors, Church of SS. Gervais and Protais, the west front Flamboyant Gothic with incongruous Renaissance details, 214.
Gotch, Architecture of the Renaissance in England, 217$^1$; cited on Kirby Hall, England, 218$^3$; on Longford Castle, England, 221; on Tixall Castle, 222; on Stanway, Westwood Park, Wollaton Hall, 223.
Gothic, King James's, 227.
Gothic architectural carving, has at once an appropriate architectural character and a high degree of excellence in the development of form, 167, 172; foliation, 176; the grotesque, 177.
Gothic architecture, development and character of, cited, 7$^1$; cited on dome of Salamanca, 57$^2$, 59$^2$; cited on early stage of apsidal vault development, 59$^1$.
Gothic architecture, one of the three distinctive styles of architecture, 6; beauty and structural logic of, 7; use of wooden ties, 22$^2$; why a dome cannot have the character of a Gothic vault, 20, 21, 56-59 (cuts); variety which arises through some new constructive idea, 211$^1$; French Renaissance châteaux in which distorted neo-classic details are worked into a pseudo-Gothic scheme, 184; Wren's scheme to reconcile the Gothic to a better manner, 238, 243, 245.
Gothic art forms a new French order, a true evolution out of the ancient orders superbly adapted to new conditions, 206.
Goujon, sculptures of the fountain of the Innocents, Paris, 196.
Greek architectural carving, vitality of, 169 (cut), 171, 174 (cut); beauty of leafage, 174, 176 (cuts).
Greek architecture, the classic style which was followed in Renaissance architecture was that of the decadent Greek schools as represented in Roman copies, 4, 247; the only proper use of the classic order made in, 43.
Greek coin (of Metapontum), conventionalized ear of barley on, compared with Renaissance carving, 169, 170 (cut).
Greek sculpture on buildings is in a measure independent of the building on which it is placed, 167.
Grotesque, the, in architectural carving, the northern races only capable of conceiving it in an imaginative way, 177; in Renaissance architecture uniformly weak and characterless, 176, 177 (cuts).
Guasti, Santa Maria del Fiore, 13$^2$; quoted on Brunelleschi's account of the dome of Florence, 18$^1$.
Gubbio, his work on the ducal palace, Venice, arabesque after Roman model, 167 (cut).
Hermæ, of façade of the Gesù, Rome, 93; of the Tuileries, Paris, 207.
Human figure, in sculpture, on buildings, 167; has little proper architectural character in the Renaissance, 167.
Impost, continuous, 188$^1$.
Individuality, element of, in Renaissance architecture, 4; as developed by Middle Ages and by Renaissance, 5.
Innocent XI, Pope, his inquiries as to the safety of the dome of St. Peter's, 59.
Intellectual movement in the Renaissance, 2, 8.
Ionic volutes, 84.
​Italian domestic architecture, 102; unwise admixture of classic elements in, 107, 109; spirit of display in, 105, 110.
Italian genius for painting, 6, 7.
Jamb shafts, tapering, 137 (cut), 142, 149, 150.
Jones, Inigo, his work on Kirby Hall, England, 2183; influence of Vitruvius and Palladio on, 226, 227; travel and study in Italy, 227; Stonehenge Restored, 227 Whitehall, 227-230 (plate and cut); Banqueting Hall, London, 227 (plate); had no true conception of the principles of classic art, 230; old St. Paul's west front, 230-232 (cut); the spirit of his architecture theatrical, 232.
Julius II, Pope, the building of St. Peter's, 44,46.
Kent, William, The Designs of Inigo Jones, consisting of Plans and Elevations for Publick and Private Buildings, 229$^2$; scheme for the palace of Whitehall, London, 229; old St. Paul's cathedral, west front, 231 (cut).
Lantern of Florence dome, 25; St. Peter's, Rome, Bramante's plan, 52 (cut); ch. of Santo Spirito, Florence, 83.
Leafage, Greek and Roman compared, 174-176 (cuts); Renaissance, 175.
Lescot, Pierre, 194; Fountain of the Innocents, Paris, 194-196 (cut); influence of Serlio, 196; west wing of the Louvre, 196-200 (cut).
Letarouilly, Edifices de Rome Moderne, 72$^1$; cited on ch. of Sant' Agostino, Rome, 72.
Loftie, W. J., Inigo Jones and Sir Christopher Wren, 242$^1$.
Lombard blind arcade recalled in the ch. of Santa Maria dei Miracole, Venice, 151 (cut).
Lombard Romanesque architecture, towers, 82.
Lombard Romanesque, style modified by neo-classic elements mark the Renaissance architecture of northern Italy, 144; a porch which forms a model from which an illogical Renaissance portal is derived, 145 (cuts).
Lombardi, the, 149; architectural carving of, 169 (plate).
Lombardo, Martino, Scuola di San Marco, Venice, façade, 156.
Lombardo, Pietro, 149; ch. of Santa Maria dei Miracole, Venice, 151 (cut); Palazzo Corner-Spinelli, Venice, 160 (plate).
Lombardo, Tullio, 149; ch of San Salvatore, Venice, 150.
London, St. Paul's cathedral, west front of old structure by Inigo Jones, 230, 232 (cut); Wren ordered to submit designs for the restoration of, 234; his drawings for the new structure, 235-238 (cuts); rejected scheme with details of its dome, 235. 236 (cut); likeness of dome to Bramante's scheme for St. Peter's, 236; likeness to Michael Angelo's scheme, 237; façade of the second design a close copy of Inigo Jones's, 238; present structure never embodied in any set of drawings, 239; plan has no beauty comparable to that of St. Peter's, 239 (cut); comparison of, with St. Peter's, 236, 239, 241, 243, 245; plan and elevation, 239; dome, 239-242 (plate); recalls Bramante's San Pietro in Montorio, 239; structural system of, 240 (cut); vaulting of the nave has somewhat the effect of Gothic vaulting, 243; use of attic wall in support of vaulting, 243; neoclassic orders of the interior, 244, 245 (cut); intersecting of archivolt and entablature, 244; concealing of the buttresses, 244, 245 (cut); vaulting of the apse, 245.
    Whitehall, Banqueting Hall, 227 (plate); of Palladian design, 228; orders of the façade, 228; scheme for the palace illustrated by Kent, 229; plan is French in character rather than Italian, 229; order of the basement has a structural character, 229 (cut); façade of circular court, orders of, 230.
    Church of St. Stephen's, 246; ch. of St. Bride's, 246; ch. of St. Mary-le-Bow, 246; ch. of St. Peter's, Cornhill, 246.
Longhena, architect, Palazzo Pesaro, Venice, 163.
Maderna, the western bays of St. Peter's, Rome, 68.
Majano, Benedetto da, the Palazzo Strozzi, Florence, 106.
Mantua, church of Sant' Andrea, 38-42 (cut and plate); erected and ornamented on Roman models, 38; nave, 38 (plate); piers, 38, 39, 53; its interior one of the finest of the Renaissance, 39; its scheme foreshadows that of St. Peter's, 39, 53; façade, 39-42 (cut); early use of so-called colossal order, 40 (cut), 53, 66; resemblance of central arch to that of ch. of Santa Maria Novella, Florence, 41; panelled pilasters, 41, 160; reflection of, seen in Bramante's church of San Satire of Milan, 138.
Martin, Hist, de France, 180$^1$.
Mathematici, Parere di tre, sopra i danni che si sono trovato nella cupola di S. Pietro, etc., 60$^1$.
​Mathematicians' report on the condition of St. Peter's dome in 1742, 60.
Mediæval art, structural forms of, formed, for the most part, the basis of Renaissance design, 43, 247; considered false and barbaric by the neo-classicists, 97, 248; its architects transformed the classic orders in a creative way, 248.
Melani, Archittetura Italiana, 150$^1$, 154$^1$, 250$^2$; quoted on architecture of the Renaissance, 250.
Metope, problem of making half a metope fall at the end of the frieze, 121, 122 (cuts).
Michelozzi, The Riccardi, Florence, 103; praised by Vasari, 105; the Strozzino, Florence, 106; chapel of St. Peter Martyr, ch. of Sant' Eustorgio, Milan, 142; his work in Venice, 149.
Middle Ages, conditions of the, 1; spirit of, and that of the Renaissance, 2, 5-6; individuality of, 5.
Middleton, Ancient Rome, 52I; cited on the dome of the Pantheon, 52$^1$.
Milan, church of Sant' Eustorgio, chapel of St. Peter Martyr, 142; circular celled vault, 142.
    Church of San Lorenzo mentioned, 140.
    Church of Santa Maria delle Grazie, 140 (cut); description of exterior, 140; dome, 140; its encircling arcade suggests the encircling colonnade of the dome of St. Peter's, 142.
    Church of Monasterio Maggiore, 142; compound window openings, 143. Church and sacristy of San Satiro, 138-140 (cut); reflects ch. of St. Andrea of Mantua, 138; orders of the interior of the sacristy, 139 (cut).
    Ospedale Maggiore, 164; larger features are of mixed and debased mediæval character with no application of classic orders, 164; window openings, 165 (cut).
    Palazzo Brera, arches sprung from pairs of columns connected by short entablatures, 166.
Milanesi, cited, 34$^1$, 35.
Milizia, Memorie degli Architette, etc., quoted, 23$^2$, 84$^1$; cited on Alberti, 35, 44; cited on use of entablature block, 36; cited on safety of the dome of St. Peter's, 58$^4$; cited on the strengthening of the dome of St. Peter's, 62; on ch. of Consolazione at Todi, 74; on spire-like tower of ch. of Santo Spirito, Florence, 81; cited on Vignola, 84; on dome of Sant' Andrea di Ponte Molle, Rome, 86; on window openings framed with orders, crowned with pediments, 109; quoted on Sansovino, 119, 121; quoted on Vignola, 128; quoted on De l'Orme, 194.
Montalembert, cited, 5$^1$.
Montepulciano, church of San Biagio, 77-83 (cuts); interior, 78-80 (cut); ressauts, 78, 90; Doric order, 78; use of pilasters on the angles, 78, 81; exterior, 81-83 (cut); dome, 81; facade, 81; panels of upper story, 81; orders, 81, 83; towers, 81.
Naples museum, composite capital showing Roman leafage, 175.
Nave of ch. of Santissima Annunziatta, Arezzo,83 (cut); Sant' Andrea of Mantua, 38 (plate); ch. of Sant' Agostino, Rome, 72; ch. of San Giorgio Maggiore, Venice, 97, 98.
Nelli, Discorsi di Architettura, 21$^3$; quoted on Brunelleschi's scaffolding, 21$^3$; cited on stability of Florence dome, 23$^3$, 24$^1$.
Neo-classicists, their confidence in the art of Roman antiquity as the embodiment of all true principles of architectural design, 97.
Neo-pagan spirit of the Renaissance, 2, 4, 8. Nicholas V, Pope, rebuilding of basilica of St. Peter, 47.
Norton, C. E., Church Building in the Middle Ages, 21$^1$; cited on building of the dome of the Florence cathedral, 21$^1$.
Openings, mediæval Florentine form, 102 (cut); of domestic architecture in Perugia, 102; reveals are shallow in earlier buildings, 104; cathedral of Como, variety of illogical forms in, 148 (cut). See Window openings.
Order and symmetry of a mechanical kind seen in Renaissance architecture, 133.
Order, colossal, so-called, early use of, 40.
Order, classic, use of without structural meaning in Renaissance architecture, 6, 29, 43, 244; Brunelleschi's use of, 26; unsuitable for a building of mediæval character, 29, 43; disposition of, in various Renaissance facades, 42; misapplication and distortion of by Italians of the Renaissance, 43; used with propriety by the Greeks alone, 43; the usual size of, compared with that of St. Peter's, Rome, 67; Vignola's treatise on the Five Orders, 84; the proportions of the, altered by Vignola, 85; Vitruvius quoted on maintaining the purity of, 86; inappropriate in a church interior, 98; application of, in palace architecture, 107, 109; Renaissance innovation in spacing the columns of, 112, 114; podium introduced beneath, 112; where the columns of, act somewhat as buttresses, 131; aberrations and makeshifts made necessary by efforts to apply the classic orders to uses for which they were not adapted, 244; ​transformed by the mediæval architects in a creative way, 248; De l'Orme's claim of having invented a new order, which he called the French order, 202 (cut), 206.
Of the Parthenon, Athens, 67; the Temple of the Sun at Baalbek, 67$^1$; chapel of the Pazzi, Florence, 29, 30 (cut); ch, of Santa Maria Novella, Florence, 35, 42 (cut); Palazzo Rucellai, Florence, 108, 109 (cut); St. Paul's, London, interior, difficulties of combining neoclassic style of, with the high vaulting, 243, 244; Whitehall, banqueting hall, London, 228 (plate), 229 (cut), 230; ch. of Sant' Andrea of Mantua, 40 (cut), 42; ch. of San Biagio at Montepulciano, 78, 81 (cuts); Duomo of Pienza, 42; St. Peter's, Rome, interior, 53, 66, dwarfs the effect of magnitude in the interior, 67, size compared with that of the Parthenon and Pantheon, 67, diminishes the effect of altitude of the vaulting, 68; Palazzo Cancelleria, Rome, podium introduced beneath, 112, innovation in spacing the columns of, 113; court of Palazzo Farnese, Rome, treatment of the capital, 118; ch. of San Francesco della Vigna, Venice, 100; ch. of San Giorgio Maggiore, Venice, raised on pedestals, 98, 101, placed under the archivolts, 98; library of St. Mark, Venice, 122, 123 (cuts); Palazzo Contarini, Venice, 161; Palazzo Vendramini, Venice, full orders in all three stories of façade, 161, 162, arrangement in lateral bay of façade, 162; town hall portico of Vicenza, the columns of, act somewhat as buttresses, 130, 131. See Columns.
Ornamentation, architectural, use of artificial elements in, 172-174 (cuts); use of forms drawn from organic nature, 174. See Carving, architectural.
Oxford, St. Mary's Church, porch, mentioned, 227; Sheldonian theatre. Wren quoted on, 234.
Padua, town hall, Palladio's scheme for town hall of Vicenza derived from, 130, 131.
Painting, Italian genius for, 6, 7; most Renaissance architects were painters and sculptors, 6, 7, 84, 96.
Palace architecture of the Renaissance, Florentine, 102-111 (cuts and plate); Roman, 112-134 (cuts); of North Italy, 154-166 (cuts); Venetian, 154-163 (cuts). See Renaissance architecture.
Pallailian architecture, 95; introduced into England by Jones, 227; far from true to classic design, 228, 230; rules are arbitrary and not in accord with the true principles of ancient art, 248.
Palladio, Quatro libri dell' Architettura di Andrea Palladio, 96$^4$; his influence greater than that of any other architect of the Renaissance, 95, 248; quoted on his study of architecture, 96, 97; quoted on his admiration of his own work, 131$^1$; his compositions based on order and symmetry of a mechanical kind, 133; concerned with the superficial appearance in architecture, 133; ch. of San Francesco della Vigna, Venice, 100; ch. of San Giorgio Maggiore, Venice, 97-100 (cuts); ch. of the Redentore, Venice, 100 (cut); Palazzo Valmarano, Venice, 133; Loggia Bernarda, Vicenza, 133 (cut); Palazzo Colleone-Porta, Vicenza, 133; Palazzo Porta-Barbarano, Vicenza, 133; the portico of the town hall, Vicenza, 130-132 (cut).
Pallaiuolo, Simone, Palazzo Guardagni, Florence, 107.
Palustre, Leon, L' Architecture de la Renaissance, 892; quoted on the entablature of St. Andrea di Ponte Molle, Rome, 89.
Paris, Church of St. Etienne du Mont, of Flamboyant Gothic form, with neo-classic west front and central portal, 213, 214; portal with columns modelled after those claimed by De l'Orme as his own invention, 214.
    Church of St. Eustache, a Gothic structure overlaid with Renaissance details, 213.
    Fountain of the Innocents, 194-196 (cut); a reproduction of the scheme of a Roman triumphal arch, 196.
    Hotel Cluny, a forerunner of the Renaissance châteaux, 180.
    Louvre, Lescot's work on the west wing, 196-200 (cut); orders, 198, 199; the salient pavilions, have no function, 198; breaking of the entablature in, 199; sculptured festoons heavy and formal, 199.
    Palace of the Tuileries, work of De l'Orme, 200-207 (cuts); peculiar form of column claimed by De l'Orme as his invention, 201-206 (cut); basement arcade, 207; attic story, 207.
Parthenon, metal clamps in masonry, 22$^2$; effect of a dome erected on, 89.
Pavia, Church of the Certosa, general description of façade, 136-137; Lombard Romanesque forms with pseudo-classic elements engrafted on them, 137; window openings, 137 (cut).
    Church of San Pietro in Cielo d'Oro, portal framed by structural members without structural meaning, 148 (cut).
Pazzi, Chapel of the. See Florence.
​Pediment, breaking of the, 93-95 (cut), 117 (cut); one placed within another, 95 (cut); of Baalbek, 95 (cut).
Pellegrini, Palazzo Brera, Milan, 166.
Perugia, domestic architecture, 102.
    Church of S. Bernardmo, general description of façade, 135 (plate); affords a rare instance of the use of colour in Renaissance architecture, 135.
Peruzzi, Baldassare, his plan for St. Peter's, Rome, 47$^2$; Palazzo Massimi, Rome, 114-116 (cut).
Piers, pierced transversely and longitudinally, 38, 39, 150 (cuts); ch. of Santissima Annunziatta, Arezzo, 83 (cut); ch. of San Lorenzo, Florence, 34 (cut); château of Blois, France, polygonal staircase tower, 190 (cut); ch. of Sant' Andrea of Mantua, 38, 39 (plate); ch. of Sant' Agostino, Rome, alternate system, 72; St. Peter's, Rome, 53, 66, 68; Todi, 75, 76 (cut); ch. of San Giorgio Maggiore, Venice, 97, 98 (cut); ch. of St. Mark, Venice, 150 (cut); ch. of San Salvatore, Venice, 151 (cut). See Orders.
Pietra Santa, Giacomo da, said to have built the ch. of Sant' Agostino, Rome, 72.
Pilaster strips, form proper decoration for mediæval structures, 29, 82.
Pilasters, coupling of, 31; use of, in the treatment of the angles of buildings, 78-81 (cut); the panelling of, 160; of Kirby Hall, England, support nothing but miniature pedestals, 219; portico of the chapel of the Pazzi, 31 (cut); façade of Santa Maria Novella, Florence, 37, 38; National Museum, Florence, meaningless and artificial design in carving, 173 (cut); château of Azay le Rideau, France, combination of pseudo-Gothic and neoclassic forms, 186 (cut): façade of ch. of Sant' Andrea of Mantua, 41 (cut); San Biagio, Montepulciano, use of, on the angles in interior, 78 (cut); Palazzo Contarini, Venice, grouping of those of three different proportions and magnitudes, 161 (cut). See Orders.
Pisa cathedral, dome, 12.
Pisan Romanesque architecture, of façade of Santa Maria Novella, Florence, 37.
Poleni, Memorie Istorische delle Gran Cupola del Tempio Vaticano, 598; his strengthening of the dome of St. Peter's, 62, 63; quoted on poor work of Bramante, 64.
Pollaiuolo, Simione, called Il Cronaca, court and cornice of Palazzo Strozzi, Florence, 106.
Pontoise, church of St. Maclou, remarkable Renaissance north portal, 214.
Porches, church of San Zeno of Verona, a model from which an illogical form of Renaissance portal is derived, 146 (cut); Cranborn Manor-House, England, illustrates Elizabethan neo-classic ornamentation, 221, 222 (cut); Kirby Hall, England, 220; resemble Louvre pavilions, 220.
Portals, from Serlio, in which the entablature is removed between the ressauts, 117, 118 (cut); illogical use of arch and entablature in the portals of north Italy, 144, 145 (cuts); illogical Renaissance portal derived from the porch of San Zeno of Verona, 146 (cut); unreason of Renaissance portals compared with those of Greek or Gothic art, 156; of cath. of Como, illogical use of arch and entablature, 144, 145 (cut), 149; Stanway House (England) gatehouse, neo-classic features, 223; Wollaton Hall, England,, illustrates Elizabethan neo-classic ornamentation, 224 (cut); ch. of Santa Maria Novella, Florence, 36 (cut), 41; château of Azay le Rideau, France, neo-classic details worked into a pseudo-Gothic scheme, 184; château of Chenonceaux, France, Flamboyant and neo-classic forms combined, 188 (cut); ch. of San Pietro in Cielo d' Oro, Pavia, 148 (cut); Palazzo Cancelleria, Rome, of almost Greek purity of design, 114; Scuola di San Marco, Venice, 156 (cut); Porta del Palio, Verona, 125 (cut).
Portico, château of Ecouen, the order of a Roman temple is produced without admixture of mediæval details or Italian corruptions, 192.
Raphael, plans for St. Peter's, Rome, 47$^2$.
Ravenna, ch. of San Vitale mentioned, 140.
Relief carving of the Renaissance, see Carving, Architectural, of the Renaissance.
Renaissance, conditions of, 1; intellectual movement in, 2, 8; neo-pagan revival in, 2, 8; its spirit as manifested in its fine arts, 3, 4, 6, 8; its architects were sculptors and painters, 6; art of painting in, 7.
Renaissance architecture, element of individuality in, 4, 6; the classic style which, was followed was that of the decadent Greek schools as represented in Roman copies, 4, 247; architects were generally also painters and sculptors, 6, 96; a surface architecture, 6; little heed given to structural propriety, 23, 64, 66, 116; use of the classic order, 29; passing of the entablature through the arch imposts, 29; use of stucco, 32; alternation of wide and narrow intervals, 38; misapplication of the classic orders, 43, 247; the designers worked on a foundation of mediæval ideas from which they could not free ​themselves, 43, 247; use of Roman models, 43, 117, 119, 247; breaking of the pediment, 93 (cut), 117; use of structural members without structural meaning, 116, 133, 135, 156, 165; entablature removed between the ressauts, 117; later architecture the work of men of little genuine artistic inspiration, 119, 133; architectural shams extensively produced by later architects, 121, 132; attempt to make half a metope fall at the end of the frieze, 121122 (cut); barbaric compositions of frequent occurrence in later, 124; based on order and symmetry of a mechanical kind, 133; independent personal effort to be original at the bottom of most of the mistakes of, 206; no architects of, had a true conception of the principles of classic art, 230; theatrical in its spirit, 232; no true adaptation of classic elements in Renaissance design, 247; great influence of short-sighted and mechanical Italian rules in modern times, 248, 250; claims advanced for it as the only architecture of correct principles since that of classic antiquity are without justification, 250; sculpture of, see Carving, architectural, of the Renaissance.
Renaissance architecture, in England, 216-246 (cuts);
    Elizabethan art, 216-225 (cuts); its best features were of native growth out of the mediæval feudal castle and the latest phase of perpendicular Gothic, 216, 225; use of classic details, 217, 218-225 (cuts); flimsiness of material in interiors and ornamental details, 217, 218; buildings have little foreign character in plan and outline, but neoclassic forms are confined to ornamentation, 218, 221; strange aberrations of design wrought by foreigners and native craftsmen, 218-225 (cuts); fantastic gables features of the more showy architecture, 220; Flemish and Dutch ornamental workers, 220, 224; the design and execution of the buildings were performed by building craftsmen, 224, 225.
    Work of Jones and Wren, 226-246 (plate and cuts); use of classic details becoming established, 226, 228; acceptance of neo-classic style by the people, 228, 232, 233.
Renaissance architecture, Florentine; church architecture, 26-43 (cuts); palace architecture, 102-111 (cuts and plate). See also Renaissance architecture and Florence.
Renaissance architecture, in France, early, 179-193 (cuts); the French Renaissance château, conditions which gave rise to, 180; evolved from the feudal castle of the Middle Ages, 180, 201; factitious in composition, 179, 181, 211$^3$; distorted neoclassic details worked into a pseudo-Gothic scheme, 184, 190; a survival of later Gothic habit of design is shown where the continuity of upright lines is obtained in the use of superimposed pilasters with ressauts in the entablatures, 188, 190; has a distinctly French expression, 179, 193, 194; later French Renaissance given a more marked neo-classic dress by Lescot and De l'Orme, 194-215; misuse of structural forms in ornamentation, 199; excessive profusion of ornament, 200; church architecture, Gothic structural forms largely entwined with a misapplication of classic details, 213-215.
Renaissance architecture, Lombard, 135, 136-149; neo-classic influences confined largely to ornamental details, 136; illogical scheme of openings which became characteristic of, 144-149 (cuts).
Renaissance architecture. North Italian, profusion of ornament a marked characteristic of, 136; Lombard Romanesque forms modified by neo-classic features mark the character of, 144; church architecture of the, 135-153 (cuts); mixture of mediæval and pseudo-classic forms, 149; palace architecture of the, 154-166 (cuts); later architecture of the, based on the art of Palladio and Vignola, 165. See Renaissance architecture.
Renaissance architecture, Venetian, 135; church architecture, 149-153; palace architecture, 154-163 (cuts); its most characteristic architecture is that of the palaces of the grand canal, 159; the usual scheme of the front that of a wide central bay wholly occupied by openings flanked by lateral bays with a solid wall on either side of an opening, 162, 163; neo-classic influences confined largely to ornamental details, 136; illogical scheme of openings which became characteristic of, 144-149 (cuts); drew some of its material from Florentine and Lombard sources, 149; later architecture follows the measurably uniform style of Vignola and Palladio, 153, 162; overlaying with heavy orders the typical unequal main divisions of the palace fronts, 162, 163.
Ressauts, irrational use of, 38; of façade of Santa Maria Novella, Florence, 37; of San Francesco of Rimini, 38; of ch. of Santa Maria degli Angeli, Assisi, 89.
Rhenish Romanesque style of ch. of Sant' Agostino, Rome, 72.
​Ribs, system of, in Florence dome, 16-19, 55 (cuts); in Gothic vaulting have nothing of the character of dome ribs, 20, 21, 56; of St. Peter's dome, Rome, 55, 56, 59; of cath. of Salamanca, 57, 58.
Riccio, Antonio, his work on east side of the court of the Ducal Palace, Venice, 154 (plate).
Rimini, San Francesco of, church of, 35; façade, 38, 42; modelled on the arch of Septimius Severus, 38, 42; ressauts, 38.
Roman arch and entablature scheme applied to a continuous arcade, 118, 119.
Roman architecture, furnished models for Renaissance architecture, 38, 40, 43, 97; use of entablature block in, 37; use of the arch in, 37; the ressaut, 38; triumphal arch design a model for Renaissance fa9ades, 38, 39-43 (cut); treatment of the angle, 79 (cut).
Roman architectural carving, furnished models for Renaissance work, 167; tasteless and meaningless designs, 170$^1$; leafage of, compared with Greek leafage, 174 (cuts).
Roman Renaissance, church architecture of the, 66-101 (cuts); palatial architecture, 112-134. See Renaissance architecture and Rome.
Romanesque architecture, 7; Rhenish Romanesque style of ch. of Sant' Agostino, Rome, 72.
Rome, its monuments the inspiration of Renaissance architecture, 3, 43, 247.
    St. Peter's, rebuilding and demolishing of the old basilica, 47; work of Rossellino, 47; work of Bramante, 47-53 (cuts), 63, 64, 70; date of the beginning of building, 47; general plan, 47, 53, 66 (cut); the plans of Raphael and Peruzzi, 472; work of Michael Angelo, 54-65 (cuts), 66; work of Maderna, 66, 245; short-sighted admiration of, 71; design of Antonio San Gallo, 71; influence of, seen in other churches, 90, 92; arabesque on door-valves, 170 (cut); Wren's scheme for St. Paul's based on the model of, 236, 237; comparison of, with St. Paul's, 236, 239, 241, 243. 245.
       Dome, 44-65 (cuts); use of the Pantheon and the Basilica of Maxentius as models, 49-52 (cuts); drum, 50 (cut), 53; abutments, 50 (cut), 53; colonnade, 51, 56, 142; lantern, 52; piers, 53, 66, 68; buttresses, 53 (cut), 55, 56, 59; design of Michael Angelo, 53-65 (cuts); his alterations of Bramante's scheme, 53-55, 64; attic, 54 (cut); vault shells, 54 (cut), 55; ribs, 55, 56, 59; binding chains, 59, 60, 62; ruptures in, 59, 60-63 (cut), 64; mathematicians' report of the condition of the structure in 1742, 60 (cut); violation of laws of stability in, 64, 65; strengthening of Bramante's work, 64I; its beauty exaggerated, 65; likeness of Wren's scheme of St. Paul's to, 236.
          Exterior, 68-70 (cut); makeshifts necessitated by the use of the colossal order, 68-70 (cut); aisle walls carried to the height of the clerestory, 68, 245; domes over the aisles, 68-70 (cut), 245.
          Interior, Bramante's scheme, 53, 66; Michael Angelo's work, 53, 66-70; piers, 53, 66, 68; effect of magnitude dwarfed by the colossal order, 53, 67, 68; great size of the structural parts, 68; part of the vault hidden by the cornice, 68, 92; its ornamentation a cheap deception, 71; ressauts, 90, 92.
    Church of the Gesù, 91-95 (cuts); Vignola's plan given in his book on the Five Orders, 92; interior, general scheme, 92; orders, 92; entablature 92; façade, 92-95 (cuts): broken pediments of, 93, 95; scroll work and hermæ, 93; reversed consoles, 95; tablets, 95 (cut).
    Church of Sant' Agostino, 72-74 (cuts); its architects, 72; date, 72; the general style is Rhenish Romanesque, 72; nave, 72; Renaissance ornamental details, 72 (cut); facade, 73, 74 (cut); truncated pediment, 74; tablets in wall surface, 74; dome, 74.
    Church of Sant' Andrea di Ponte Molle, 86-89 (cuts); dome, 86; façade, 86-88 (cut), 92, 101; likeness to the Pantheon, 87; entablature, 89 (cut).
    Church of San Biagio, entablature, 78 (cut).
    Church of Santa Maria della Pace, cloister arcade, 119.
    Church of St. Paul outside the wall, entablature, 30$^1$.
    The Tempietto, 44-46 (cut); the dome and its drum, 44, 74; resemblance to the temple of Vesta, 44, 45; orders, 45, 83; dome of St. Paul's, London, recalls, 239.
    Arch of Septimius Severus used as model of façades by Alberti, 38, 39-43 (cut); treatment of angle in, 79.
    Arch of the Silversmiths, 39.
    Arch of Titus, scheme of, used by Sansovino in the Loggetta of the Campanile, Venice, 123.
    Basilica of Maxentius, columns and arches, 37; as model for St. Peter's, 49.
    Baths of Caracalla, entablature, 29.
    Pantheon, 10, 15$^1$, 87; said to be taken as model for dome of Florence cathedral, 16; grandeur of, 23; as model for Bramante's dome of St. Peter's, 49, 52 (cuts); its internal character, 52I; abutments, 49 (cut), 52; not a homogeneous structure, 89.
    Porta Maggiore, form of column similar to that claimed by De l'Orme as his own invention, 205.
    Temple of Peace. See Basilica of Maxentius.
    Theatre of Marcellus, its facade followed by Sansovino for the library of St. Mark's, 122.
    Palazzo Cancelleria, facade, 112-114 (cut), window openings, north Italian, 112, 149; podium introduced beneath each order, 112; spacing of the columns of the order, 112, 114; projecting bays at each end, 113; portal of almost Greek purity of design, 114; court, 114.
    Palazzo Farnese, 116-118; window openings framed by structural members without structural meaning, 116, 117 (cut); removal of entablature between ressauts over window openings, 117 (cut); court, treatment of columns, 118.
    Palazzo Girand Torlonia, 112; window opening, north Italian, 112, 149.
    Palazzo Massimi, facade described, 114-116 (cut); wall above basement unbroken by pilasters or string courses, 114; portico, 114, 115; spacing of columns and pilasters of basement, 114; window openings, 115.
Ronsard, his poem on Lescot cited, 196.
Roof, timber, built over early domes, 10, 11.
Rossellino, his use of the orders in the Duomo of Pienza, 42, 43; his work on the basilica of St. Peter, Rome, 47.
Ruptures, in the dome of Florence cathedral, 23, 24; in the dome of St. Peter's, Rome, 59, 60-63 (cut); not necessarily alarming in a properly constructed vault, 62$^2$.
Rustication of masonry, 109.
Salamanca, cathedral of, dome, how it approaches and differs in nature from a Gothic vault, 57-59 (cuts).
San Gallo, Antonio, the elder, 90; his work on ch. of San Biagio, Montepulciano, Rome, 78-83; ch. of Santissima Annunziatta, Arezzo, 83.
San Gallo, Antonio, the younger, his design for St. Peter's, Rome, 71; Palazzo P'arnese, Rome, 116.
San Gallo, Giuliano da, designed Palazzo Gondi, Florence, 107, 176; leafage of capital, 176 (cut).
San Giovanni, Florence Baptistery, 14, 16.
Sanmichele, Porta del Palio, Verona, 125 (cut); Palazzo Canalla, Verona, 126; Palazzo Pompei alia Vittoria, Verona, 126; Palazzo Bevilacqua, Verona, 126, 127 (cut).
Sansovino (Jacopo Tatti), his predilection for classic forms, 119, 120; library of St, Mark, Venice, 121 (cut), 130; his attempt to make half the metope fall at the end of the frieze, 121, 122; small freestanding column placed on each side of the pier to bear the archivolt, often spoken of as an invention of, 123, 130, 131 (cut); Loggetta of the Campanile, Venice, 123; his use of a form of column claimed by De l'Orme as his own invention, 205.
Scaffolding said to have been employed by Brunelleschi, 21$^3$.
Scamozzi, 133, 134; peculiar form of compound window, sometimes called his invention, 134 (cut).
Scrollwork, of façade of the ch. of the Gesù, Rome, 93.
Sculpture, on buildings, has in Gothic art only an appropriate architectural character, and a high degree of excellence in the development of form, 167; Greek, is in a measure independent of the building on which it is placed, 167; of the human figure in Renaissance art, has little proper architectural character, 167; relief carving of the Renaissance, 167-178 (cuts). See Carving, architectural, of the Renaissance.
Sebastiano, architect of ch. of Sant' Agostino, Rome, 72.
Serlio, Regole Generale di Architettura di Sebastiano Serlio, 442, 196$^2$; cited on the work of Bramante on St. Peter's, Rome, 472, 49; quoted on corner pilasters, 79; cited on the removal of the entablature between the ressauts, 117 (cut); influence on Lescot, 196; his column practically the same as that claimed by De l'Orme as his own invention, 203 (cut).
Sgrilli, Discrizione e Studj dell' Insigne Fabbrica di S. Maria del Fiore, quoted, 23.
Siena, Palazzo Pubblico, 102.
Soane Museum, John Thorpe's drawings, 218$^2$, 221.
Spavento, church of San Salvatore, Venice, 150.
Spire, Gothic, far removed from anything proper to classic composition, 83.
Steeples, Wren's, 246; are the outcome of the Renaissance spire-like towers, 82.
Strozzi, Filippo, 110.
​Stucco, use in Renaissance architecture, 32, 132, 133
Syria, St. Simeon Stylites, use of the free standing column under the archivolts, 131 (cut); Basilica of Shakka, form of window opening reproduced in architecture of the Renaissance, 134.
Tablets, rectangular in façade surface, 74; ugly shapes of, in the façade of The Gesù, Rome, 95 (cut); of Vignola, 95 (cut).
Tatti, Jacopo. See Sansovino.
Thorpe, Juhn, his plans show a French influence, 218, 220; little is known of him, 218$^2$; Kirby Hall, England, 218-220 (cuts); Longford Castle, 221.
Thrust, the, of a dome, 15$^1$, 24, 52.
Ties, wooden used in Gothic buildings, 222.
Tivoli, temple of Vesta, resemblance of the Tempietto, Rome, to, 44, 45 (cut).
Todi, church of Santa Maria della Consolazione, 74-77 (cuts); the scheme is Byzantine, 74, 77; dome, 74, 75, 77; interior, 75 (cut); orders, 75-77 (cut); piers, 75, 76; exterior, 77 (cut); similarity between the sacristy of San Satiro, of Milan, and, 140; between cath. of Como and, 144.
Towers, spire-like, of the Renaissance, 81; scheme based on the Lombard Romanesque tower and the mediæval campanile, 82; of ch. of San Biagio at Montepulciano, 78, 81 (cuts); of ch. of Santo Spirito, Florence, 81, 82 (cut); Giotto's, 82.
Triglyph, problem of the arrangement of, at the end of the frieze, 121, 122 (cuts).
Triumphal arch used as a model of Renaissance façades, 38, 39-43 (cuts).
Vanvitelli, his placing of binding chains around the dome of St. Peter's, Rome, 62.
Variety, unmeaning, different from that which results from an active inventive spirit, 211$^1$.
Vasari, Le Opere di Giorgio Vasari quoted, 16; cited on Brunelleschi's account of the dome of Florence, 18$^1$, 22$^1$; cited, 33$^1$, no; cited on Alberti's work, 35, 44, 107; cited on rebuilding St. Peter's, Rome, 47; his short-sighted admiration of St. Peter's, 71; quoted on Michelozzi, 105, 149; cited on the Palazzo Strozzi, Florence, 106.
Vault, Gothic, why a dome cannot have the character of a, 20, 21, 56-59 (cuts).
Vaults, the nature of the construction of a circular-celled vault on Gothic principles, 56-59 (cuts); of the chapel of the Pazzi, Florence, 27, 28, 56; ch. of San Spirito, Florence, 34; chapel of St. Peter Martyr, ch. of Sant' Eustorgio, Milan, 142.
Venetian Renaissance. See Renaissance, Venetian.
Venice, church of The Redentore, general scheme, 100 (cut); east end, 100, 101; orders, 101; façade, 101.
    Church of S. Fantino, 151.
    Church of San Francesco della Vigna façade, 100.
    Church of San Giorgio Maggiore, 97; nave, 97, 98; piers, 97, 98 (cut); orders raised on pedestals, 98, 99; placed under the archivolts, 98; entablature, 98, 99, 101; façade, 99 (cut), 101.
    Church of Santa Maria Formosa reproduces features of St. Andrea of Mantua with details of the character of the Lombardi, 153.
    Church of Santa Maria dei Miracole, 151 (cut), 156; refinement in details, 151; façade a marvel of excellence in mechanical execution, 151, 152 (cut); Lombard blind arcade recalled in decoration of the facade, 151; carving of ear of barley and flower stalks, 169 (plate); carved mask from a pilaster, 178 (cut).
    Church of St. Mark, piers pierced longitudinally and transversely, 150 (cut).
    Church of San Salvatore, 150, 151; peculiar pier supports of the barrel vaulting, 150 (cut); use of an attic as support for vaulting, 151; its system is that of the ch. of St. Mark, 151.
    Church of San Zaccaria, general description of interior, 149, 150; singular column of nondescript character, 150 (cut).
    Palaces of the grand canal, finest are those of the later mediæval period, 159.
    Palazzo Contarini, 161; details of façade, 161; window openings, 161 (cut); grouping of pilasters of three different proportions and magnitudes, 161 (cut).
    Palazzo Corner-Spinelli, 160 (plate); window openings, mediæval features, incompleted circle in the tympanum space, 160; pilasters, panelling of, 160.
    Palazzo Cornaro, description of the front, 124; unequal main divisions of the front overladen with heavy orders, 162.
    Ducal Palace, east side of the court, 154 (plate); façade described in detail, 154, 155; window openings described, 154, 155; north side of court, window openings, 155 (cut); giant's stair, fine execution of, 156; arabesque after Roman model, 167 (cut); grotesque creatures in the relief of the Scala d' Oro, 177 (cut).
    Palazzo Grimani, façade, 163.
    Palazzo Pesaro, 163.
    Palazzo Valmarano, 133.
    Palazzo Vendramini, 161; full orders in all three stories, 161, 162; grouping of mediæval window openings, 162; balconies, 162; disproportion of topmost entablature, 162.
    Library of St. Mark, 121 (cut); arrangement of the metope in the frieze, 121, 122 (cuts); orders, 122; frieze and balustraded balconies, 123; free standing column under the archivolt in the order of the upper story, 123, 130.
    Loggetta of the Campanile, 123.
    Scuola di San Marco, description of façade, 156-158 (cut); portal, described, unreason of its composition, 156 (cut); carvings, 157.
    Scuola di San Rocco, façade described, 158 (cut); portal, 159; window openings with mediæval features and others with pseudo-Corinthian colonnettes, 159 (cut), 160.
    The Zecca, form of column claimed by De l'Orme as his own invention, 205.
Verona, church of San Zeno, porch and portal, 146 (cut).
    Palazzo Bevilacqua, description of façade, 126, 127 (cut).
    Palazzo Canalla, 126.
    Palazzo del Consiglio, 163 (plate); presents a mediæval broletto scheme dressed out in Renaissance details, 163; in respect to its finest qualities it belongs to the Middle Ages, 163.
    Palazzo Pompei alia Vittoria, 126.
    Porta del Palio, description of façades, 125 (cut), 126.
Vicenza, Town hall portico by Palladio, 130-132 (cut); use of free standing columns under the archivolts, 130; columns of the great orders act somewhat as buttresses, 131.
    Palazzo Colleone-Porta, 133.
    Palazzo Porta-Barbarano, 133.
    Palazzo Valmarano, 133.
    Loggia Bernarda, 133 (cut).
Vignola, l' Cinque Ordine d' Architettura, 84, 85,92; entablature which he calls his own invention, 85 (cut); his unclassic and incongruous combinations, 86, 95; eliminates mediæval forms, 92; tablet from, 95 (cut); great influence of his writings, 248; ch. of Sant' Andrea di Ponte Molle, Rome, 86-89 (cuts), 92; ch. of Santa Maria degli Angeli, Assisi, 89; ch. of the Gesù, Rome, 91-95 (cuts); Palazzo Caprarola, near Viterbo, 128.
Violette-le-Duc, S. V. Chllteau, 171$^1$, 181$^1$; Entretiens sur l' Architecture, 207$^8$; quoted on French architects of the Renaissance, 179$^1$; quoted on château of Chambord, 191; quoted on De l'Orme, 200$^1$; his genius more scientific than artistic, 200$^1$; quoted on the château of Charleval, 211, 212; errs in his reasoning in his discourse on Renaissance architecture, 211-213.
Villani, quoted, 2.
Villari, cited, 3$^1$.
Viterbo, Palazzo Caprarola, near Viterbo, general description of, 128-130; a source of inspiration to later architects of transalpine Renaissance, 130.
Vitruvius, 85; quoted on the orders, 86; taken by Palladio as his master, 96, 97; later Renaissance architects based their practice on the writings of, 119; cited on meaningless Roman ornamental designs, 170$^1$; notion that the Ionic order was designed after female proportions, derived from, 207$^1$.
Walpole, Horace, Anecdotes of Painting, 226; quoted on Inigo Jones, 226, 229; quoted on faults of Jones's façade of old St. Paul's; London, 231, 232.
Ware, Isaac, A Complete Body of Architecture, 248$^1$, 249$^1$; quoted on the rules of ancient architects, 248, 249.
Wenz, Paul, Die Kuppel des Domes Santa Maria del Fiore zu Florence, 20$^1$.
Willis, his term "continuous impost" used, 188$^1$.
Window openings, framed by structural members without structural meaning, 116; a peculiar form of compound, sometimes called an invention of Scamozzi, 134 (cut), 143; the same form occurs in the basilica of Shakka, 134 (cut); tapering jamb shafts, 137 (cut), 142, 149; illogical scheme of, which became characteristic of Lombard and Venetian Renaissance architecture, 148 (cut); mediæval form of those in Venetian palaces, 159 (cut), 160, 162; Lower Walterstone Hall, England, illustrates Elizabethan neo-classic ornamentation, 221 (cut); château of Azay le Rideau, France, Flamboyant Gothic and neoclassic forms combined, 186 (cut); château of Charleval, France, unmeaning variation of details, 210, 211 (cut); Palazzo Bartolini, Florence, 109 (cut); Palazzo Guardagni, Florence, 107; the Quaratesi, Florence, 106; the Riccardi, Florence, mediæval in their larger features, hut with tapering jamb shafts, 103; Palazzo Rucellai, Florence, 109 (cut); Ospedale Maggiore, Milan, 165 (cut); of the Certosa of Pavia, tapering jamb shafts, 137 (cut); Palazzo Cancelleria, 112 (cut); of Palazzo Farnese, Rome, ​framed by structural members without structural meaning, 116 (cut); Ducal Palace, Venice, east side of court, 154, north side, pseudo-Corinthian order of, 155 (cut); Palazzo Contarini, Venice, grouping of the pilasters, 161 (cut); Palazzo Corner-Spinelli, Venice, mediæval features, incomplete circle in the tympanum space, 160; Palazzo Corneri, Venice, 124 (cut); Palazzo Vendramini, Venice, grouping of, in the bays of the façade, 162; Scuola di San Rocco, Venice, with mediæval features and with pseudo-Corinthian colonnettes, 159 (cut); Palazzo Bevilacqua, Verona, 126, 127; Palazzo Branzo, Vicenza, a peculiar form of compound window, sometimes called an invention of Scamozzi, 134.
Wren, Sir Christopher, Parentalia, or Memoir of the Family of the Wrens, 232$^8$ ff.; professor of astronomy at Oxford, 233; quotations from a letter written during his visit to Paris, 233; quoted on his Sheldonian theatre, Oxford, 234; ordered to submit designs for the restoration of old St. Paul's cathedral, London, 234; his drawings of plans for the new structure, 235-238 (cuts); building of the present structure, 239-245 (cuts); his scheme to "reconcile the Gothic to a better manner," 238, 243, 245; he learned his art on the scaffold in close contact with the works, 239: his churches other than St. Paul's, exhibit a medley of elements from spurious Gothic to pseudo-classic in irrational combinations, 245, 246; his spires are hybrid compositions of barbaric character, 246.