AESTHETICS

STRUCTURE AND DESIGN

western aesthetic  -   Greece and Rome  -   proportion, harmony, and coherence  -   eastern aesthetic  -   Byzantium and Islam  -   space and complexity of form  -   ornamentation  -   Venice


RENAISSANCE STYLES

EARLY RENAISSANCE

mainland expansion  -   its effect on Venetian architectural tastes  -   Lombard stonecutters  -   their origin and training - on their style  -   Mauro Codussi  -   his work in Venice  -   Istrian stone - on the role of religious orders  -   the war of Cambrai and its impact on architecture in Venice

“ROMAN” RENAISSANCE

the Sack of Rome  -   Venice as “New Rome”  -   Sebastiano Serlio  -   his treatises  -   the “Serlian” window  -   Jacopo Sansovino  -   his influence  -   the papalists  -   their role in architectural commissions


  ANDREA PALLADIO

CIVIC ARCHITECTURE

project for Doge's Palace  -   project for Rialto Bridge

SACRED ARCHITECTURE

the Roman temple as prototype  -   the temple and basilica floor plans compared  -   the facade and the articulation of interior space  -   the superimposed pediment as solution

CHURCHES IN VENICE

San Pietro di Castello  -   San Francesco della Vigna  -   San Giorgio Maggiore  -   Santissimo Redentore  -   Santa Maria della Presentazione “Zitelle”


PALLADIO'S LEGACY

ARCHITECTURAL ELEMENTS

the thermal window  -   colossal orders

BAROQUE

Baldassare Longhena: Santa Maria dei Derelitti and Santa Maria della Salute  -   Giuseppe Sardi: San Salvador, San Lazzaro dei Mendicanti, Santa Maria di Nazaret, and Santa Maria del Giglio  -   Alessandro Tremignan: San  Moise'  -   Domenico Rossi: San Stae and Sant Maria Assunta “Gesuiti”

ROCOCO AND NEO-PALLADIAN

Giorgio Massari: Santa Maria del Rosario Gesuati and Santa Maria della Pietà  -   Andrea Tirali: San Vidal

PALLADIANISM

the Four Books on Architecture  -   Palladianism as erudite architecture  -   as embodiment of political ideals and social status  -   the superimposed pediment in the Anglo-American context  -   Palladian architecture in the British Isles, America, and Russia