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Italian Gothic
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Undergraduate 1
03/13/2011

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S. Maria Novella, Florence, 1279-1310

  • Dominican order
  • similar to Cistercian plan
  • square plan, 4 square chapels

Interior

  • plain walls, simple, polychrome and stained glass but no elaborate sculptures
  • ribbed, domed vaults to minimize lateral thrust, no need for flying buttresses, support system is concealed under aisle roof
  • narrow and open between aisles and nave, making it bright and airy
  • good for preaching to congregation, smaller scale church

Windows

  • aisle windows are small and punch-out style
  • clerestory windows are small and circular
  • no need for huge windows in this area
  • 3 stained glass windows in the choir
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SS. Giovanni e Paolo, Venice, 1333-1430

  • Dominican Order
  • finished late... into the start of the Renaissance
  • dome vaults over square bay, similar to s. Maria Novella
  • minimized building weight, foundation wooded, built with b rick, wooden vaults, and stone ribbs for support

Interior

  • transverse arches, rinns
  • tie-rods
  • small circular windows in clerestory
  • minimalist rose window
  • minimal decoration
  • choir built in 1390, polygonal aspe w/ 3 tiers of windows that start at the floor and reach cieling, emphasis on vertical, hierarchy - brightest space 
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Milan Cathedral, 1387-1572

  • largest, most ambitious italian gothic church
  • no flying buttresses
  • emphasis on the vertical
  • lots of sculpture and elaborate decoration
  • 5 part entrance
  • front motif wraps all the way around cathedral,not just a western front
  • high nave (157') that steps down
  • shallow transept
  • ambulatory
  • square aisle bays (squares considered perfect and used only in important places
  • domed vaults in aisles, reinforced with tie-rods
  • interior lacks openness, dark
  • small clerestory windows
  • tiered down aisles
  • elaborate floortiles, super intricate exterior

Master Builder Controvery

  • Simone Orsengo was orig. master builder
  • second guessed 2 years after start, project reassigned to a new builder twice
  • Gabe Stornoloco's idea used, nave 3x height of outermost aisle (triangular)
  • consultation continued forover a decade and was recorded
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