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Architecture History
Exam 3
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Architecture
Undergraduate 2
03/17/2011

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James Gibbs
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Whig party became dominant voice in political life and they saw the Baroque far too Italiante, too Catholic, and too exuberant

Gibbs continued English Baroque
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St. Mary le Strand
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1714
London
James Gibbs
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St. Mary le Strand
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St. Mary le Strand
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St. Mary le Strand
Layered composition of alternating bays
blind niches at either end of the upper story as wall as the ground story
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St. Mary le Strand
Resemble apsidal east end of St. Paul's
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St. Mary le Strand
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St Martin in the Fields
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1726
London
James Gibbs
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St. Martin in the fields rejected first plan
based on St. Stephen Walbrook- Wren
congregational space= domed rotunda
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St. Martin in the fields
pulpit directly connected to the nave
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St. Martin in the fields
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St. Martin in the Fields
spire rises from within the larger mass of the building
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St. Martin in the Fields
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St. Martin in the Fields
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St. Martin in the Fields
temple motif w/ serliana window
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Radcliffe Library
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The Radcliffe Library
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1739

Oxford

James Gibbs

precedents: Tempietto, Santa Maria della Salute

Italianate character

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The Fellows Building
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The FEllows Building
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1724

Cambridge University

James Gibbs

 

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A Book of Architecture

 

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1728

James Gibbs

included small buildings and ornamentation

pattern book 

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Christ Church
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1723

London

Nicholas Hawksmoor

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Christ Church
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Christ Church

 

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St. George in the East
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1714

London

Nicholas Hawksmoor

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St. George in the east
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Christ church interior

mimicked barrel vault carried on columns on the exterior

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St. George in the East
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St. George in the east
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Sir John Vanbrugh
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  • wrote plays that defended women's rights in marriage
  • politically a Whig
  • his association with Nicholas Hawksmoor= Baroque learning
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Castle Howard
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1699

North Yorkshire

Sir John Vanbrugh

  • Varoque style
  • roman doric pilasters on north
  • corinthian pilasters on south

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Castle Howard
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Castle Howard

 

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Castle Howard
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Castle Howard
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Castle Howard

  • west wing was not started until after Vanbrugh's death
  • West wing was built in Palladian style

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castle howard
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Blenheim Palace
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Blenheim Palace
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Woodstock, Oxfordshire

1705

Sir John Vanbrugh

  • was to be gift for John Churchill for military triumph at Battle of Blenheim- except for political infighting= Marlborough's exile

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Blenheim Palace
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Blenheim Palace
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Blenheim Palace
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Blenheim Palace
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Blenheim Palace
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Blenheim Palace
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Blenheim Palace
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Blenheim Palace
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Blenheim Palace
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