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| Location | Siena, Italy map | ||||||||||||
| Date | 1280 to 1350 timeline | ||||||||||||
| Building Type | piazza, plaza, urban open space | ||||||||||||
| Construction System | bearing masonry | ||||||||||||
| Climate | mild | ||||||||||||
| Context | urban | ||||||||||||
| Style | Late Medieval | ||||||||||||
| Notes | "Il Campo", the main square of Siena. (Not "Sienna".) Asymmetrical open space radiating from tower at one side. Location of the Palio horse races in July and August. | ||||||||||||
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| Discussion | Piazza del Campo Commentary
"...The Palazzo Publico, Siena, [and other great Italian palazzos of the period] represent the municpal life and enterprise of these Medieval cities, and stand, grave and severe, amidst the bustle of modernlife, with their lofty watch towers and fortified facades, often finished with machicolations and battlements." — Sir Banister Fletcher. A History of Architecture | ||||||||||||
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Sources on Piazza del Campo
Fritz Baumgart. A History of Architectural Styles. New York: Praeger Publishers, 1970. NA204.B3513. LC 70-110283. site plan drawing, f119, p111. Jean Roubier, Paris. Francis D. K. Ching. Architecture: Form, Space, and Order. New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1979. ISBN 0-442-21535-5. LC 79-18045. NA2760.C46. aerial perspective drawing, p140. — A nice graphic introduction to architectural ideas. Updated 1996 edition available at Amazon.com Sir Banister Fletcher. A History of Architecture. London: The Butterworth Group, 1987. ISBN 0-408-01587-X. LC 86-31761. NA200.F63 1987. p757. f745d. — The classic text of architectural history. Updated edition available at Amazon.com Niccolo Rodolico and Giuseppe Marchini. I Palazzi del Popolo, nei Comuni Toscani del Medio Evo. Milan: Electra Editrice, 1962. exterior photo of tower, plate62. Kevin Matthews. The Great Buildings Collection on CD-ROM. Artifice, 2001. ISBN 0-9667098-4-5.— Available at Amazon.com
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Piazza del Campo photo tour - at Europe for Visitors Piazza del Campo at Archiplanet — Find, add, and edit info at the all-buildings collaboration
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