Identifier: architectureforg00hort (find matches)
Title: Architecture for general students
Year: 1874 (1870s)
Authors: Horton, Caroline W
Subjects: Architecture
Publisher: New York, Hurd and Houghton Cambridge, The Riverside press
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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.Yet the early death of Raphael and the immensesums of money necessary to carry out his planprevented its adoption; and Peruzzi, appointed hissuccessor, returned to the form designed by Bra-mante. Under Peruzzi the work progressed veryslowly for want of funds, and only the tribune ap-proached completion ; but so admirable was hisjudgment that his plans were adhered to by his suc-cessors with scarcely an alteration. After Peruzzicame Giulio Romano, and then Michael Angelo,in his seventy-second year, refusing all pecuniaryrecompense, undertook the work for The honorof God. He adhered to the plan of Bramante, ofwhom he writes, Bramante was, if any one de-serves the name, one of the most able architectssince the days of the ancients. He made the firstdesign for St. Peter. Without confusion, clear andcompact, well lighted and open on all sides, hewished so to place the church, that it should innowise interfere with the Vatican palace. And, asis evident now, whatever the standard of beauty,
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THE NEW YORK IpUBLIC LIBRAR ASTOR, LENOX AND ,TILDEN FOUNDATIONS. Renaissance Architecture. 209 whoever clepart3 from his idea as Sangallo did^departs from the very rules of art. Angelo en-larged the transepts but devoted himself especiallyto the dome, which he determined to construct aftera plan of his own. Having no hope of living untilits completion, he prepared a wooden model ofexact proportions, so that his idea might be carriedout by others. Like the dome of Brunelleschi atFlorence, that of St. Peters is double ; but it ismuch lighter and more artistic in construction.Within the drum is formed by thirty-two Corinthianpilasters arranged in pairs and windows betweeneach two pairs. These support a cornice fromwhich spring the slender ribs of the circular vault-ing, ornamented with gilded stuccoes. The in-tervals are filled with rich mosaics, rendered bril-liant by the light of the spacious windows. Betweenthe inner and outer dome winds a passage andstaircases leading to the lantern

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