Identifier: dictionaryofarch02stur (find matches)
Title: A dictionary of architecture and building : biographical, historical, and descriptive
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: Sturgis, Russell, 1836-1909
Subjects: Architecture Architecture Architects
Publisher: New York : The Macmillan company
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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nsovino, and their successors, also of Berniniand Jladerno and tlie other emi)loyers of thecolossal order. A design leased upon S. Peterschurch at Rome or the buildings of Palladio atVicenza would be Italian in this limited andmore nearly accurate sense, while one basedupon the Florentine palaces of Brunellesco,Alberti, or upon the works of Bramante wouldnot be so styled. — R. S. ITALIAN GARDEN. A formal garden ofa character imitated from, or suggested by, thevilla gardens of the sixteenth anil seventeenthcenturies in and near the greater Italian cities.(See Landscape Architecture; Villa.) ITALY, ARCHITECTURE OF. That ofthe continental )iart of the kingdom of Italy,together with the republic of San Jlarino. Forthe purpose of this inquiry it may be dividedinto fourteen parts, namely : — I. Piedmont. VIII. Umbria. II. Liguria. III. Lombardy. IV. Venetia.V. Emdia. VI. Marches. VII. Tuscany. IX. Latium. X. Abruzzi and Molise. XI. Campania. XII. Apulia. XIII. Basilicata. XIV. Calabria.
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All this region is rich in ancient architecture,architectural scidpture, mosaic, and in portableworks of art of durable material ; also in paint-ing of epochs, beginning with the thirteenth cen-522 ITALY tury and with a few remains of early painting.Here are Italian pre-Koman structures of greatinterest, not always thoroughly understood asyet, but included among these are Etruscanand Oscan remains of unique value to students.The Grecian architecture of Italy is of peculiarimportance (see Parts XI. and XIII.). Forbuildings of the Roman state and the Romandominion previous to 100 B.C., Italy is the onlycountiy in which to search and study ; but forbuildings of the Imperial epoch the less gener-ally destroyed or defaced structures of NoithAfrica, Syria, Dalmatia, and southern Franceare destined to prove even more instructive. Atthe same time the historical buildings of thecity of Rome, for which documentary as wellas internal evidence is to be had, are the foun-dations of our knowledge o

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