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Title: The architecture of the renaissance in Italy : a general view for the use of students and others
Year: 1909 (1900s)
Authors: Anderson, William J. (William James), 1864-1900
Subjects: Architecture, Renaissance Architecture
Publisher: London, B. T. Batsford
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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iderable originality in the variations ofhis treatment of the classical forms, and much ingenuity intheir adaptation to modern requirements, but he was in aposition to benefit greatly by the far more remarkable originalityof those who had preceded him. As an assimilator Bramanteexcelled, and his work is characterised by a quite remarkablevariety and flexibility of treatment of the elements placed at hisdisposal. To Bramante nothing was common nor unclean, andthe same power of assimilation which enabled him to sum upthe traditions of Lombardy in such work as Santa Maria delleGrazie, enables him now to produce in Rome a work so com-pletely in harmony with its surroundings as the CancelleriaPalace (1495—1505). The revolt from the Lombardy stylewhich its general design evinces is in itself a mark of * SerXios Five Books of Architecture. 86 THE CULMINATION IN ROME. Bramantes capacity, and an indication of the nature of it.Yet there is Httle in this quiet and monotonous facade (Plate 34),
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with its dry and ineffective decoration, or in the Hght and over-weighted arcades of the cortile, to justify the theory that BRAMANTES METHODS. 87 Bramante initiated a new era in architecture.* The windowwith its balcony from the south-east corner of this palace(Plate 35) conveys an idea of the early character of the detailand ornament, showing that these at least have no claim to beregarded as of the culminating period or even of leading up toit. The treatment is simply that which Bramante brought withhim from the terra-cotta district of Lombardy; unsuited toRoman travertine or tufa, it has demanded the employmentof marble as an inset, for of this the window and balcony areconstructed. In general arrangement the pilasters, arch, andspandrils, with their enclosing moulding, are a revival of thevery late and debased Roman window of about the fourthcentury, examples of which were to be seen in many of thenorthern provinces. But the broad fa9ade in its general charactermust have revealed

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