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| Architect | Arnolfo di Cambio |
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| Location | Orvieto, Italy map | |||||
| Date | 1290 to 1500 timeline | |||||
| Building Type | church | |||||
| Construction System | masonry | |||||
| Climate | mediterranean | |||||
| Context | urban | |||||
| Style | Romanesque-Gothic | |||||
| Notes | mosaic inlaid facade | |||||
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| Discussion | Orvieto Cathedral Commentary
"Orvieto, with its base some 660 feet above the River Paglia and its sharply cut flanks giving it clarity, possesses one of Italy's most distinctive profiles. Though the town is full of historic buildings, none can equal its superb Romanesque-Gothic cathedral, begun in 1290, and the medieval square it faces." — G. E. Kidder Smith. Looking at Architecture. p56. "Orvieto Cathedral,...built after 1290 under the patronage of the papacy, is a timber-roofed, columnar basilica like Santa Croce, but with colorful stone striping and sumptuous capitals and cornicework. Its magnificent polychrome faŤade (begun 1310) embodies a love of luxurious effects reminiscent of the northern cathedral fronts, but with a typically Italian emphasis on closed mural surfaces, classically carved detailing, and marble inlays." — Marvin Trachtenberg and Isabelle Hyman. Architecture: from Prehistory to Post-Modernism. p275. | |||||
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Sources on Orvieto Cathedral
Donald Corner and Jenny Young, University of Oregon. Slide from photographers' collection. PCD.2350.1012.1143.71. photo of cathedral facade from street facing, framed by vernacular building facades. Louis Grodecki. Gothic Architecture. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1977. ISBN 0-8109-1008-X. LC 77-4853. NA480.G7613. transverse section drawing, f355, p337. plan drawing, f354, p337. Johnson Architectural Images. Copyrighted slides in the Artifice Collection. G. E. Kidder Smith. Looking at Architecture. New York: Harry N. Abrams, Publishers, 1990. ISBN 0-8109-3556-2. LC 90-30728. NA200.S57 1990. discussion p56. very distant photo, p56, close-up of square, p57. A. Rosengarten. A Handbook of Architectural Styles. London: Chatto and Windus, 1910. NA200.R7 1910. elevation drawing of west front, f524, p364. Marvin Trachtenberg and Isabelle Hyman. Architecture, from Prehistory to Post-Modernism. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1986. ISBN 0-13-044702-1. NA200.T7. discussion p275. — available at Amazon.com Kevin Matthews. The Great Buildings Collection on CD-ROM. Artifice, 2001. ISBN 0-9667098-4-5.— Available at Amazon.com
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