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english renaissance and baroque
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Architecture
Undergraduate 1
05/11/2011

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Robert Smythson, Wollaton Hall, Nottinghamshire 1580-88

Eng Ren.

 

  • influence from Palladio (in plan--sq module)
  • windows!
  • parapets-->Medieval, railings-->italian==>blending of 2
  • interior: wood truss, window tracery

 

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Robert Smythson, Hardwick Hall, Derbyshire 1590-97

Eng Ren.

 

  • ital collonade
  • all about light

 

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Inigo Jones bio
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  • brough Ren. (esp Palladio) to Eng
  • commissioned by Henry I

 

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Inigo Jones, Queens House, Greenwich, 1616

Eng Ren.

 

  • looks close to Palladio
  • road dividing bldg in 2
  • spiral staircase

 

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Inigo Jones, Banqueting House, Whitehall, London

Eng Ren.

 

  • balustrade-hide roof
  • oversized in context w/ small medival bldgs
  • alternating window pediments

 

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Inigo Jones, Covent Garden, London

Eng Ren.

 

  • residential sq
  • arcades 
  • church: east end faces square (false door)

 

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Wren, Sheldonian Theater, Oxford

Eng Baroque

 

  • facade: ancient elements: pediment, 1/2 columns, pylasters, arcade
  • based on Serlio's Book of Architecture

 

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Wren, St. Stephen Walbrook, London

Eng Baroqe

 

  • 1 of 50 unique churches he designed in London after fire
  • inspired by Fr Gothic: spires-->cool skyline
  • got to experiment for St. Pauls
  • centralized w/ wood dome

 

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Wren, St. Pauls's Cathedral, London

Eng Baroque

 

  • gothic style plan ( latin cross=catholicism)
  • saucer domes: nave & aisle
  • west facade: double column pediment, 2 towers
  • triple shell dome: masonry, brick, then lead

 

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Roger Pratt, Coleshill, Berkshire, 1650

Eng Baroque

 

  • Wren-esque residential bldg
  • 2 rms deep w/ corridor through center
  • seen in 18th cent US Georgian arch

 

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William Talman, Uppark, Sussex, 1695

Eng Baroque

 

  • cubelike, pediment but no columns
  • 3 levels-->palazzo, pitched roof-->medieval
  • baroque influence evident but very lightly used 

 

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Vanbrugh, Castle Howard, Yorkshire, 1701

eng Baroque

  • huge complex
  • flanking curved collonades (ital. influence)

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Vanbrugh and Hawksmoor, Blenheim Palace, Woodstock, Oxfordshire, 1705

Eng Baroque

  • large and pompous-->impractical
  • curved walls, collonades, pedimented main bldg entrance

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Hawksmoor, Christ Church, Spitalfields, London

Eng Baroque

  • overly detailed interior
  • facade: tower, serliana module, columsn

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James Gibbs, St. Martin in the field, London

Eng Baroque

  • corinthian order
  • wren inspired tower & steeple
  • wrote A Book of Architecture-->Am colonies, almost all churches looked like this
  • iinfluenced Neo Classicism

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