![]() One of the most dramatically placed buildings in Venice is San Giorgio Maggiore, directly across a broad canal from the Piazza San Marco.ĭissatisfied with earlier solutions to the problem of integrating a highīroad one. ![]() Peter behind shield with facing scrolling acanthus C scrolls and lion's feet. Coat of arms decorates tympanumĬoat of arms: Pope's triple tiara (crown). 48Īngel and festoon between flanking Roman (smooth shaft) Composite columns It is hidden by the central section of the facade and might continueīehind it." - Katherine Fresina, "Palladio's Religious Architecture in Venice," Louisiana State University, 2012, p. The side aisles, frontedīy smaller Corinthian pilasters supporting parts of a lower pediment,Īre clearly subordinate, and the pediment over the aisles looks as if Its pediment parallel the slope of the roof. Of the Composite order, stands in front of the nave, and the sides of The dominant central element, featuring four giant half-columns Therefore, Palladio designed the facade of San Giorgio as aĬombination of two classical temple fronts, one superimposed upon the Lower aisles that does not exist in temple architecture, where the ![]() As already noted, Christian basilicalĪrchitecture involves a difference in height between a tall nave and "Palladio’s creative problem-solving was required again when itĬame to the facade, where the blending of temple and churchĪrchitecture presented the same challenge he had previously confrontedĪt San Francesco della Vigna. Solved it by superimposing a tall, narrow, Classical porch on a low,īroad one." - Gardner's Art Through the Ages, Tenth Edition "Dissatisfied with earlier solutions to the problem of integrating a highĬentral nave and lower aisles into a unified facade design, Palladio Central pediment flanked by the two halves of a broken pediment. White marble west elevation, with brick on other elevations. Semicircular apse is end of thje north transept Note the rounded thermal windows, an Italian response to European Gothic stained glass windows. Campanile (bell tower) with conical roof (detailed below:)īuttresses above the lower side aisle help support the barrel vault. Its tall nave and lower attendant aisles." - Jonathan Glancey, ![]() Still expresses the form of the red-brick building behind with White marble facade that even though an architectural smoke screen, "Instructed to build a a traditionally cruciform church, he concealed San Giorgio Maggiore displays an impressive facade to the Piazetta di San Marco across the water. Scalfarotto and rebuilt in 1791 by Fra Benadetto Buratti in the style of the nearby Neo-classic style campanile in St. First built in 1467, fell in 1774 it was designed in 1726 by ![]()
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