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| Architect | Benedetto da Maiano |
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| Location | Florence, Italy map | |||||||||
| Date | 1489 to 1539 timeline | |||||||||
| Building Type | palace | |||||||||
| Construction System | bearing masonry | |||||||||
| Climate | mild | |||||||||
| Context | urban | |||||||||
| Style | Italian Renaissance | |||||||||
| Notes | Continued by Il Cronaca (Simone del Pollaiuolo). Rusticated walls, arched and rectangular openings. | |||||||||
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| Discussion | Palazzo Strozzi Commentary
"Strozzi's design culminates the Florentine palazzo 'pattern,' which favors a flat facade of three storieseach level marked by a prominent full-width stringcourse (horizontal banding)topped by an outsize cornice.... Stone of almost theatrical rustication commands the facade, with semicircular arches crowning all the major openings. Note that the radating voussoirs (wedge-shaped stones) of the arches increase in length as they rise to the keystone. Divided two-arched windows with varying ornamental panels are typical of the upper floors, while squarish windows mark the lower. A haughty main entrance leads to a central courtyard." from G.E. Kidder Smith. Looking at Architecture. p68. | |||||||||
| Resources |
Sources on Palazzo Strozzi
Robert Adam. Classical Architecture. London: Penguin Books, 1990. ISBN 0-670-82613-8. NA260.A26 1990. section drawing, fig a, p57. plan oblique drawing, fig a, p57. Sir Banister Fletcher. A History of Architecture. London: The Butterworth Group, 1987. ISBN 0-408-01587-X. LC 86-31761. NA200.F63 1987. detail drawing of first floor window, p855. detail drawing of cornice, p855. plan drawing, p855. Sir Banister Fletcher. Sir Banister Fletcher's A History of Architecture. 18th ed., revised by J.C. Palmes. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1975. ISBN 684-14207-4. NA200.F63. Drawings, p802. The classic text of architectural history. Expanded 1996 edition available at Amazon.com 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. exterior elevation photo, p69. discussion, p68. John Julius Norwich, ed. Great Architecture of the World. London: Mitchell Beazley Publishers, 1975. elevation drawing, p151. Reprint edition: Da Capo Press, April 1991. ISBN 0-3068-0436-0. An accessible, inspiring and informative overview of world architecture, with lots of full-color cutaway drawings, and clear explanations. Available at Amazon.com Russell Sturgis. The Architecture Sourcebook. New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1984. ISBN 0-442-20831-9. LC 84-7275. NA2840.S78. drawing of lower plan, p253. drawing of main facade, p253. lantern detail drawing, p253. [JE] Kevin Matthews. The Great Buildings Collection on CD-ROM. Artifice, 2001. ISBN 0-9667098-4-5. Available at Amazon.com
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