Almost all monuments of 11c civilization had a religious function of some kind, only the remarkable apt. house towns of Anasazi of Colorado, in North America, remaining to suggest some of the complexities of what was already, at Pueblo Bonito and...
Chateau de Josselin, Brittany, France.
Here, the courtyard facade of the addition built for Jean Rohan II, illustrating transition from fortification to comfortable country seat. Within grim fortifications a palatial manor house with an open...
Palazzo Venezia, ca1465. Courtyard; bottom, Colosseum, Rome, 72 AD.
Lowry uses this courtyard to illustrate the failure of contemporaries of Brnelleschi and Alberti to understand what motivated their work, pointing out that this roman courtyard...
Top: Brunelleschi, Palazzo di Parte Guelfa, Florence, designed ca.1420. Bottom: Brunelleschi, Palazzo Pitti, Florence, designed ca.1440 (late additions not shown).
Upper left:Brunelleschi, S. Spirito, Florence, designed 1426. Nave. Lower left: SS Apostoli, Florence, end of 11th c. Right: Plans of S. Spirito (left) and S. Lorenzo (right).1
Upper left: Ruins of the ""Porticus of Pompey"" Rome, c.285 AD. Anonymous 16th c drawing. Lower left: Roman Forum, Leptis Magna, 200 AD. Detail of Arcade. Right: Brunelleschi, S. Lorenzo, Florence, designed 1418, constructed...
Tournus Abbey, Saone et Loire, 979-1120. The central tower and part of the choir from the south (early twelfth century). Here for the first time the ambulatory appears in the form used at Cluny III, Paray-le-Monial, etc,=., and the great...
Tournus, Saone et Loire, 979-1120. The former Benedictine Abbey of Saint-Philibert at Tournus is situated near one of the most ancient crossings of the Saone, in the neighbourhood of which prehistoric, Gallo-roman and Burgundian finds have...
Prosperity one reason for church and monastery building that swept across Austria and Bavaria in 18th c., but also, counter reformation ideology, the struggle over ideas. A committed and didactic art in south, an appeal to senses abjured in...
