HOA 2 - Late Medieval Architecture

Medieval Architecture.

The conflicting influences of Gothic, Roman, Greek, Byzantine & Moslem produced a peculiar blend of

1. Flatness of roof
2. Screen wall of the west facade masks the aisle roof
3. Circular window of the west front
4. Absence of pinnacles and flying buttresses
5. Stripes of colored marbles instead of mouldings
6. Small windows without tracery
7. Occasional frescoes & mosaics

General Features of Churches Medieval Architecture.

MILAN CATHEDRAL

is the 2nd largest Gothic cathedral in the world, next to Cathedral of Seville, Spain.

BASILICA DE SAN ANTONIO PADUA

is a 7-domed pilgrimage church.

S. GIOVANNI e PAOLO

is a Dominican church with beautiful brickwork.

S. ANDREA, VERCELLI

by Cardinal Guala Bicchieri, is closest in spirit and form to the French gothic style.
Its façade is finished with grey-green stones.

DOGE'S PALACE

was designed perhaps by Filippo Calendario.

The Doge's Palace

is faced with white & rose-colored patterned marble with a central ornate window.

CA D' ORO, Venice

was designed by Giovanni & Bartolomeo Buon.

FLORENCE CATHEDRAL

was designed by Arnolfo di Cambio.
The exterior is faced with polychrome marble panels in various shades of green and pink bordered by white, an elaborate 19th-century Gothic Revival façade by Emilio De Fabris.

FLORENCE CATHEDRAL BELL TOWER

was initially designed by Giotto & later by Andrea Pisano & Francesco Talenti.
The Cathedral, Bell Tower, Baptistery and its surrounding city is a World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 1982.

The FLORENCE CATHEDRAL BAPTISTERY

by Lorenzo Ghiberti in Florentine Romanesque style, is octagonal in plan with an internal dome. It is faced with Siena red and Prato green marbles.

SIENA CATHEDRAL

interior with zebra-marble stripes on piers & walls. It is one of the most stupendous undertakings since the building of Pisa cathedral.

SIENA CATHEDRAL

's Piccolomini Library houses the precious illuminated choir books and frescoes painted by the Umbrian Bernardino di Betto, called Pinturicchio, probably based on designs by Raphael.

ORVIETO CATHEDRAL

by Arnolfo di Cambio is faced with striped marble, basalt & travertine & windows are filled with alabaster.
Its façade has glittering mosaics created by artist Cesare Nebbia.

S. MARIA NOVELLA

, Florence is the city's principal Dominican church & the first great basilica in Florence . It was designed by Fra Sisto Fiorentino and Fra Ristoro da Campi. The façade was later designed by Leon Battista Alberti in the renaissance style.

S. CROCE

, Florence is a Gothic version of a basilican church by Arnolfo di Cambio.

S. CROCE

It is the largest Franciscan church in the world.
Its most notable features are its 16 chapels decorated with frescoes.
It contains monuments of celebrated Italians. Inside are Michelangelo's and Galileo's tombs.

MESSINA CATHEDRAL

as begun during the time of King Roger.
The façade portals are Gothic.
The bell tower holds one of the largest astronomical clocks in the world, built in 1933 by the Ungerer Company of Strasbourg.

PALERMO CATHEDRAL

was erected in by Walter Ophamil.
It was turned into a mosque by the Saracens after their conquest of the city in the 9th cent.