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Architect | unknown |
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Location | Venice, Italy map | ||||||||||||
Date | 1309 to 1424 timeline | ||||||||||||
Building Type | palace | ||||||||||||
Construction System | bearing masonry-cut stone-colored marble | ||||||||||||
Climate | mediterranean | ||||||||||||
Context | urban waterfront | ||||||||||||
Style | Italian Gothic | ||||||||||||
Notes | Strong planar facade on slender columns and arches. "Palazzo Ducale". | ||||||||||||
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Photo, exterior overview, showing the palace in context across water, with tower behind More images available on The GBC CD-ROM. Contributions appreciated.
Poster Image - Palazzo Ducale, Elevation Rendering
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Discussion | Doge's Palace Commentary
"The Doge's Palace, Venice, has faŤades which date from 1309-1424, designed by Giovanni and Bartolomeo Buon. The palace, started in the ninth century, several times rebuilt, and completed in the Renaissance period, forms part of that great scheme of town-planning which was carried out through successive centuries. The faŤades, with a total length of nearly 152 m (500 ft), have open arcades in the two lower storeys, and the third storey was rebuilt after a fire in the sixteenth century, so as to extend over the arcades. This upper storey is faced with white and rose-coloured marble, resembling ornate windows and finished with a lace-like parapet of oriental cresting." Sir Banister Fletcher. A History of Architecture. p506. Details "The arcade columns, which originally stood on a stylobate of three steps, now rise from the ground without bases, and the sturdy continuous tracery of the second tier of arcades lends an appearance of strength to the open arches. The capitals of the columns, particularly the angle capital which was eulogised by Ruskin in The Stones of Venice, are celebrated for the delicate carving in low-grained marble. The whole scheme of columned and pointed arcades, with its combination of carved capitals and long horizontal lines of open tracery, is of that unique design which can only be termed Venetian Gothic." Sir Banister Fletcher. A History of Architecture. p506. Address On the Piazette San Marcos. | ||||||||||||
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Sources on Doge's Palace
Donald Corner and Jenny Young. Slide from photographer's collection. PCD.2260.1012.1834.086 Howard Davis. Slide from photographer's collection. PCD.2182.1013.0218.008. Sir Banister Fletcher. A History of Architecture. Boston: Butterworths, 1987. ISBN 0-408-01587-X. NA200.F63 1987. discussion p506. The classic text of architectural history. Expanded 1996 edition available at Amazon.com Duane Siegrist, University of Oregon. Slide from photographer's collection, July 1993. PCD.3236.1011.0837.051. PCD.3236.1011.0837.050. PCD.3236.1011.0837.045. Henri Stierlin. Comprendre l'Architecture Universelle 1. Paris: Office du Livre S.A. Fribourg (Suisse), 1977. plan drawing, p184. no image credit. Russell Sturgis. The Architecture Sourcebook. New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1984. ISBN 0-442-20831-9. LC 84-7275. NA2840.S78. detail drawing, p137. Kevin Matthews. The Great Buildings Collection on CD-ROM. Artifice, 2001. ISBN 0-9667098-4-5. Available at Amazon.com
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