Principal Works. Palazzo Pitti; bridge Santissima Trinità ; Rucellai Palace at Florence; Jesuit's college at Rome, and many other works. The old château of Meudon, tomb of Francis I. at St. Denys; decorated the apartments of the palace of Fontainebleau. Olympic Theatre at Vicenza; Il Redentore at Venice; and, perhaps, more public and private buildings than have been erected before or since by any architect. Villa of Marignolle, now Casa Capponi; the casino behind San Marco at Florence; a palace for the Acciajuoli, now the Corvini; the façade of the Strozzi Palace in the Via Maggiore; the façade of the church della Santissima Trinità; and works in many other parts of Italy. Chapel of the Manger in the church of S. Maria Maggiore; library of the Vatican, and many other works. A painter and architect, who flourished during the reign of Queen Elizabeth, from 1558 to 1608. Superintendent of royal buildings to Queen Elizabeth. Monastery of the Escurial in Spain; the new canal of the Adour; "Tour de Cordouan," at the mouth of the Garonne. Pont Neuf at Paris; hotels de Sully, de Mayenne, and that of the Fermes Général; designed the fine gallery built by Henri IV. at the Tuilleries. Supposed inventor of the angular Ionic capital; made some additions to the library of S. Mark, finished the Olympic Theatre at Vicenza, and built a theatre at Sabionetta, Luxembourg at Paris, and other works. Altered Michel Angelo's design for St. Peter's at Rome, from a Greek to a Latin cross; began the palace of Urban VIII. Architect of St. Mary's Church tower, Cambridge. Author of "The Elements of Architecture," published in London, 1624. Banqueting House; chapel, Lincoln's Inn; Surgeons' Hall; arcade, Covent Garden, London; and a vast number of other important works. Fortress at Ferrara; many palaces, theatres, and other public buildings at Mantua, Parma, Modena, and Venice. Plan for the grand hotel of Luynes; hotel Laigle and Beauvilliers. Author of "numerous absurdities" at Rome and Florence, nevertheless much employed. Chiefly employed at Rome. The celebrated piazza, colonnade, and staircase at St. Peter's; grand fountain of the Piazza Na vona. Abbey of Val de Grace; Château des Masons; portal of the Minims in the Place Royale. LIST OF ARCHITECTS. No. in 259 260 AFTER CHRIST. Cen Name of Architect. tury. Principal Works. Claude Perrault of 17th. Façade of the Louvre; chapel of Sceaux ; chapel 261 266 267 Jules Hardouin Bridge over the Charente at Saintes; gate of Designed Aldersgate, London; was an architect St. Paul's; city of London after the Fire ; The Old Bethlem Hospital in Moorfields; Ashe's Alms-houses; British Museum. He was associated with Wren. He gave a plan for rebuilding London after the Fire. One of the last architects of St. Peter's. Dome des Invalides; Gallerie du Palais Royal; Three sides of Many churches and palaces. Blenheim House; Castle Howard, Yorkshire; Buildings near Turin on the Superga; church Wanstead House, Mereworth. Compiler of the "Vitruvius Britannicus." He continued the Dôme des Invalides; finished the chapel of Versailles; and raised the new buildings at St. Denys. Designed the church of St. George, Bloomsbury, and St. Anne, Limehouse. L'Hôtel de Vendome, in the Rue d'Enfer at Paris. He was employed much in Russia by Peter the Great. Corsini Chapel, &c., Rome. Theatre Verona; theatre at Vienna. Author of two books on Architecture ARCHITECTURE. The art of building according to certain proportions and rules determined and regulated by nature and taste. As the art, in its various parts, is the subject of this work, we do not here consider further definition necessary. For origin and progress, see Book I. Chap. I. Sect. 2.; different species at early period, Book I. Chap. I. Sect. 3. ARCHITECTURE, ARABIAN or SARACENIC, Book I. Chap. II. Sect. 10. BABYLONIAN, Book I. Chap. II. Sect. 3. BRITISH, EARLY PERIOD, Book I. Chap. III. Sect. 1. BYZANTINE and ROMANESQUE, Book I. Chap. II. Sect. 14. CYCLOPEAN. See PELASGIC. CHINESE, Book I. Chap. II. Sect. 8. DRUIDICAL and CELTIC, Book I. Chap. II. Sect. 1. EGYPTIAN, Book I. Chap. II. Sect. 7. EARLY ENGLISH, Book I. Chap. III. Sect. 3. ELIZABETHAN, Book I. Chap. III. Sect. 6. ETRUSCAN, Book I. Chap. II. Sect. 12. FRENCH, Book I. Chap. II. Sect. 17. FLORID ENGLISH OF TUDOR, Book I. Chap. III. Sect. 5. of George I., Book I. Chap. III. Sect. 8. OF GEORGE II., Book I. Chap. III. Sect. 9. OF GEORGE III., Book I. Chap. III. Sect. 10. GERMAN, Book I. Chap. II. Sect. 18. GRECIAN, Book I. Chap. II. Sect. 11. INDIAN, Book I. Chap. II. Sect. 6. ITALIAN, Book I. Chap. II. Sect. 16. JAMES I. to ANNE, Book I. Chap. III. Sect. 7. ARCHITECTURE, JEWISH, Book I. Chap. II. Sect. 5. MEXICAN, Book I. Chap. II. Sect. 9. NORMAN, Book I. Chap. III. Sect. 2. ORNAMENTED ENGLISH, Book I. Chap. III. Sect. 4. POINTED, Book I. Chap. II. Sec. 15. RUSSIAN, Book I. Chap. II. Sect. 20. SPAIN and PORTUGAL, Book I. Chap. II. Sect. 19. ARCHITECTURE, WORKS ON. It would too far extend this work to print a list of these, but we here insert A Catalogue of the principal and most useful Works to the Student of Architecture, arranged under the several Classes of Aberdeen's, Earl of, Inquiry into the Principles of Beauty in Grecian Architecture. 8vo. London, 1822. Aikin's, E., Essay on the Doric Order. Imperial folio. London, 1810. Chambers's Civil Architecture. Gwilt's Edition. Introductory Essay on Grecian Architecture. Imp. 8vo. London, 1825. Chandler's, R., Travels in Asia Minor and Greece. 2 vols. 4to. London, 1817. Choiseul, Gouffier. Voyage Pittoresque de la Grèce. 2 vols. folio. Paris, 1782—1809. Cockerell's, C. R., Temple of Jupiter Olympius at Agrigentum. London, 1825. Delagardette. Les Ruines de Paestum, ou Posidonia. Royal folio. Paris, 1799. Donaldson. Collection of the most approved Examples of Doorways from ancient Buildings in Greece and Italy. 2 vols. 4to. London, 1833. Gartner, F. Monuments of Greece and Sicily. Folio. Munich, 1819. Harris and Angell. Temple of Selinus. Large 4to. plates. London, 1826. Hittorff. Architecture Antique de la Sicile. Paris, 1825-30-37. Le Roy. Les Ruines, les plus beaux Monuments de la Grèce, considerées du Coté de l'Histoire, et du Coté de l'Architecture. Imp. folio, plates by Le Bas. Paris, 1758. Not a correct work. Major, T. Ruines de Pæstum. 24 plates, large folio. 1768. Quincy's, M. Quatremère de, Jupiter Olympien. Large folio, plates, some coloured. Paris, 1815. Restitution des Deux Frontons du Temple de Minerve à Athènes. 4to. 3 plates, Paris, 1825. Stanhope, J. S. Olympia; or Topography of the ancient State of the Plain of Olympia, and of the Ruins of the City of Elis. Imp. folio. London, 1824. Stuart's, James, Antiquities of Athens. 4 vols. large folio. 1762, &c. Stuart, James, F. R. S. F. S. A., and Nicholas Revett's Antiquities of Athens, a second edition, with a very considerable augmentation of notes of subjects further elucidated and brought to light by Travellers since the times of Stuart and Revett, edited by W. Kinnaird, architect, with an additional and entirely new volume (as supplement) of Architecture and Antiquities in Greece, Sicily, &c., the result of recent Travels and Investigations, by C. R. Cockerell, W. Kinnaird, T. L. Donaldson, W. Jenkins, and others, architects. 4 vols. royal folio, about 200 plates. 1825-1830. The plates in the three first volumes of this edition are from the coppers of the French edition. Visconti, Chevalier. Ouvrages de Sculpture du Parthenon. drawn work. 8vo. Paris, 1818. Imp. folio. Cambridge, 1807. Topography and Buildings of Athens. Royal 8vo., plates. 1816. An ill |
