Ponte Vecchio - Taddeo Gaddi - Great Buildings Online

Architect

Taddeo Gaddi

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Location

Florence, Italy map

Date

1345 and 1564 timeline

Building Type

bridge and shops

Construction System

bearing masonry, stone arches

Climate

temperate

Context

urban, river

Style

Italian Medieval Vernacular

Notes

Inhabited urban bridge across the Arno. three great segmented arches on massive piers, with arches above. The corridor above the shops is by Vasari

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On bridge, from south	North end	At center, from east
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Sources on Ponte Vecchio

Sir Banister Fletcher. A History of Architecture. London: The Butterworth Group, 1987. ISBN 0-408-01587-X. LC 86-31761. NA200.F63 1987. discussion, p757. photo, fig B, p756. — The classic text of architectural history. Expanded 1996 edition available at Amazon.com

Johnson Architectural Images. Copyrighted slides in the Artifice Collection.

Kevin Matthews. The Great Buildings Collection on CD-ROM. Artifice, 2001. ISBN 0-9667098-4-5.— Available at Amazon.com

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