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Certosa di Pavia, Pavia, Lombardy, Italy, Europe
The church is built on a Latin cross plan, with a nave, two aisles and transept, typical of Gothic architecture. The chancel terminates with an apse. It is covered by crossed vaults on Gothic arches and is inspired, on a reduced scale, by the Duomo of Milan. The vaults are alternatively decorated with geometrical shapes and starry skies. The transept and the main chapel end with square-plan chapels with smaller, semi-circular apses on three sides. The façade of the church is famous for its exuberant decorations, typical of Lombard architecture, every part being decorated with reliefs, inlaid marble and statues. Sculptors who worked on it include Cristoforo Mantegazza and Giovanni Antonio Amadeo himself. In addition to applied sculpture, the facade itself has a rich sculptural quality because of the contrast between richly textured surfaces, projecting buttresses, horizontal courses and arched openings, some of which are shadowed, while those in the small belfries are open to the sky. The sober form of the roughly finished brick front can be seen in a fresco by Ambrogio Bergognone in the apse of the right transept, painted in 1492-1495, when work was commencing on the new facade, portraying Gian Galeazzo Visconti offering the model of the Certosa to the Blessed Virgin. Its profile, with roofs on three levels, has been compared to the churches of San Giovanni in Monza and San Petronio in Bologna; among the architects in close correspondence at all three projects, Borlini ascribes the form of the original facade at the Certosa to Giacomo da Campione, who was working at Pavia while his uncle Matteo was completing San Giovanni in Monza. The architect Giovanni Solari, in building the double row of arcades down the flanks of the church, modified its appearance. After his death he was succeeded in Pavia by his son Guiniforte Solari, but work came to a halt with the death of Guiniforte in 1478. In 1492 Gian Giacomo Dolcebuono took up the construction, assisted on site, for he was cocurrently occupied with the cathedrals at Pavia and at Milan and other churches, by his inseparable collaborator on both cathedrals, Giovanni Antonio Amadeo. In their hands the project was thoroughly redesigned. Scores of artists were involved. The classicist style portal is by Benedetto Briosco (1501). The porch has a large arch of classicist form resting on paired Corinthian columns which are each surmounted by a very strongly modelled cornice on which the arch rests, the construction being derived from the Classical, used by Brunelleschi, and employed here for a bold and striking effect. The decoration is of bas-reliefs illustrating the History of the Certosa. Above the central arch is a shallow balcony of three arches, above which rises the central window. This campaign was interrupted in 1519 as work was going forward by the condition of French occupation in Lombardy after the War of the League of Cambrai. French troops were encamped round the Certosa. Notations of work on the facade did not resume until 1554, when a revised design under the direction of Cristoforo Lombardo was approved for the completion of the facade above the second arcade; there marble intarsia was substituted for the rich sculptual decorations of the lower area. Some final details were added by Galeazzo Alessi. Gian Galeazzo Visconti, hereditary lord and first Duke of Milan, commissioned the building of the Certosa to the architect Marco Solari, inaugurating the works and laying the foundation stone on August 27, 1396, as recorded by a bas-relief on the facade. The location was strategically chosen midway between Milan and Pavia, the second city of the Duchy, where the Duke held his court. The church, the last edifice of the complex to be built, was to be the family mausoleum of the Visconti. It was designed as a grand structure with a nave and two aisles, a type unusual for the Carthusian Order. The nave, in the Gothic style, was completed in 1465. However, since the foundation, the Renaissance had spread in Italy, and the rest of the edifice was built according to the new style, redesigned by Giovanni Solari continued by his son Guiniforte Solari and including some new cloisters. Solari was followed as director of the works by Giovanni Antonio Amadeo, (1481-1499). The church was consecrated on May 3, 1497. The lower part of the façade was not completed until 1507. The construction contract obliged the monks to use part of the revenue of the lands held in benefice to the monastery to continue to improve the edifice. Consequently, the Certosa includes a huge collection of artworks of all centuries from the 15th to the 18th.
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ITALY: CHINESE ENGINEER ON MISSION TO SAVE LEANING TOWER OF PISA
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A Chinese engineer has travelled to Italy to try and carry out what he calls his life's mission - to save the Leaning Tower of Pisa.
Professor Cao Shizhong, from Zhejiang, says his technique, which aims to weight the tower differently, will prevent it from falling down.
But he says tourism authorities should not worry about the tower becoming a normal, boring, straight tower - he would leave it leaning a little bit.
Thousands of visitors come to Pisa every year to see its bell tower, renowned for its dramatic lean.
The top of the tower is over five metres off centre.
Engineers have been trying to correct the lean since the 13th Century, shortly after the tower was completed.
But so far they have only succeeded in stabilising the structure and slowing down its rate of incline.
A special commission set up in 1990 to deal with the leaning problem is always looking for an solution.
And now a Chinese engineer - Professor Cao Shizhong - claims he can help.
As director of the Slanting Building Correction Research Institute in the eastern city of Hangzhou, he has perfected his methods, using them to correct the same problem on 80 pagodas and towers in his home country.
The commission recognises the tower will never be straight - and Cao is in agreement, saying that anyway it wouldn't be the same if it was.
SOUNDBITE: (Mandarin)
Back in the 13th Century, the leaning tower was already leaning by at least two metres. Part of the objective would be to return it to this original inclination, in order to avoid damaging both the tower and the tourist industry.
SUPER CAPTION: Professor Cao Shizhong
Cao puts his theories to the Pisa Tower Commission next Monday.
During a press conference in Rome, Shizhong demonstrated his approach with several gestures, some sketches, and an animated speech.
He's confident the Oriental approach, which he defines as 'softness conquers hardness' can correct the tower in ten months.
It aims to reinforce the tower from within, unload the huge pressure on the foundations and treat the soft land base around it.
Cao said, although he has already righted many leaning monuments, saving the Tower of Pisa would be a dream come true.
SOUNDBITE: (Mandarin)
It is one of my life dreams to be able to straighten the Tower of Pisa.
SUPER CAPTION: Professor Cao Shizhong
And he is not the only one - proposals to solve Pisa's best-known problem are regularly sent in from all over the world.
One man said he would do it for one (m) million U-S dollars.
And a boy from New York State in the United States suggested permanently masting a blimp to the tower.
Until a permanent solution is found to the problem, the tower will remain closed to visitors as it has done since 1989, after the collapse of a similar bell tower at the Cathedral of Pavia.
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Renaissance Art - 2 Italian Quattrocento: Architecture
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Italian Quattrocento is the period of XV century. It began in Florence, impulsed by the Medici family. The artists are more recognized.
Filippo Brunelleschi: he began as sculptor, but later decided to be architect.
Ospedale degli Innocenti: horizontal facade, two heights. The superior is for rooms with classic windows and the inferior is the portico.
Santa Maria del Fiore: he won the competition to do the dome. He did it by doing two domes, one inside the other. I think in the image is clearly descripted. He used brick in the nerves to lighten the weight. Between both domes there is a wooden skeleton. It is a dome with gothic tradition.
San Lorenzo: basilical plant of latin cross, with various kinds of covers, three naves. The light enters using oculus in the lateral naves. The Vecchia Chapel, or Old Sacristy is of centralized plant, with a dome by Donatello depicting a map of the cosmos.
Pazzi Chapel: it is little, of centralized plant. It has the golden ratio. Plant of greek cross.
Pitti Palace: rusticated facade.
Santo Spirito.
Michelozzo Michelozzi: disciple of Brunelleschi.
Sant’ Agostino (Montepulciano): gothic influence.
Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana: it is like a church, with jonic order and pointed arches.
Medici Riccardi Palace: a masterpiece, with a central courtyard. Three heights, being the high ones for living.
Cafaggiolo Castle.
Giuliano da Maiano: disciple of Brunelleschi.
Porta Capuana.
Faenza Cathedral: use of pilasters and columns in the lateral chapels.
Benedetto da Maiano: disciple of Brunelleschi.
Santa-Maria-delle-Grazie.
Giuliano da Sangallo: disciple of Brunelleschi.
Palazzo Strozzi: Giorgio Vasari said this was by Benedetto da Maiano, but Sangallo did the model. Symmetric facade, interior courtyard.
Santa-Maria-delle-Carceri.
Leon Battista Alberti: architect and teoric. With him the column is decorative and the archers are over pilasters. Dome is used in all his buildings.
Tempio Malatestiano: it was gothic but he rebuilt it. It has a dome inspired by the Pantheon.
Palazzo Rucellai: typical florentine palace with various heights and great decoration. Sucession of different orders like in the Colosseum.
Santa Maria Novella: very decorated facade, latin cross plant, three naves and gothic interior. Use of marbles of colors. Use of golden ratio and symmetry.
Sant’ Andrea (Mantua).
San Sebastiano (Mantua).
Bernardo Gambarelli: disciple of Alberti.
Piccolomini Palaces: there are two, one in Pienza and other in Siena.
Agostino di Duccio: disciple of Alberti.
San Bernardino (Perugia).
Francesco Laurana: disciple of Alberti.
Castel Nuovo.
Lombardy: the tuscan characters are mixed with the gothic tradition, maintained by the construction of the Cathedral of Milan.
Filarete: architect and writter. He also wrote the Sforzinda, a tale in a imaginary city.
Ospedale Maggiore: it was planned as a cross inside a square, with a church of centralized plant in the center.
Mantegazza.
Certosa di Pavia: great decoration, full of reliefs and statues. Contrast between surfaces with rich textures, buttresses, horizontal marks and arches. Also done by the next author.
Giovanni Antonio Amadeo.
Colleoni Chapel: use of decorations with rhomb form in polychromed marble, with white, red and black colors.
Venice: the lombard influence is mixed with the gothic tradition in civil architecture. Here work Pedro Lombardo and his sons Antonio and Tullio.
Santa Maria dei Miracoli: one nave with barrel vault, with statues of Tullio and more authors, and a vault decorated with faces of prophets.
Palazzo Vendramin Calergi: here is where died the composer Richard Wagner. It has three floors. Classic columns. With paintings and sculptures in the interior.
Palazzo dei Diamanti: curious by the bossage.
Palazzo Ducale (Urbino): Federico de Montefeltro has influence in this castle, that is propagandistic. The construction began with Luciano Laurana, that has knowledges of greek art. One of the difficulties was the landscape. In the facade there are two cylindrical towers. It also has a courtyard, and there are representations of ideal cities.
Piazza del Campidoglio: it is thought as the center of the world.
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Pavia, San Michele maggiore. Le parti alte del corpo centrale e dell'abside della chiesa romanica mostrano parecchi rifacimenti, intercorsi nei secoli, e parti di murature che occorre ancora spiegare e interpretare. Si vede anche la tragica situazione del parcheggio quasi selvaggio, adiacente alla chiesa...
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