Lecture 18: Baroque Rome - School of Architecture and Planning
Lecture 18: Baroque Rome - School of Architecture and Planning
Lecture 18: Baroque Rome - School of Architecture and Planning
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Il Gesu –Plan<br />
• Aisleless nave – small side<br />
chapels p<br />
• domed crossing<br />
• w/ short transept arms,<br />
compact apse end –for<br />
preaching<br />
Letarrouilly<br />
plate 261<br />
Il Gesu –Interior: a template for the <strong>Baroque</strong> church<br />
• Based on: Alberti’s San Andrea, Mantua (barrel vaulted<br />
space, p , c1472), ), as original g “model” + High g Renaissance, ,<br />
Bramateesque space (e.g. St Peters plan, as seen in<br />
Raphael’s painting, “The <strong>School</strong> <strong>of</strong> Athens”)<br />
• But –here meant to be viewed, taken in at a glance:<br />
emphasis on spatial unity <strong>of</strong> <strong>of</strong> barrel vaulted nave –short,<br />
wide, unrestricted view ffrom entry to focal f point at alter…<br />
Norberg‐Schulz p15