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| Architect | Guarino Guarini |
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| Location | Turin, Italy map | |||||||||
| Date | 1667 to 1690 timeline | |||||||||
| Building Type | church | |||||||||
| Construction System | masonry | |||||||||
| Climate | mediterranean | |||||||||
| Context | urban | |||||||||
| Style | Baroque | |||||||||
| Notes | crosshatching hexagonal ribs make high, airy dome. | |||||||||
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| Discussion | Sindone Chapel Commentary
"Santa Sindone in Turin, Guarini's most dramatic creation, is a Palatine chapel housing the precious relic of the Holy Shroud. Built between 1667 and 1690, it has an unusual triangular plan, clearly an allusion to the Trinity. The chapel is sheathed in black marble, over which plays the pure white light that floods through the multiple ribbing of the dome." — Mitchell Beazley. The World Atlas of Architecture. p307. "...Cappella SS. Sindone...is also crowned by an exceptional cupola of pointed profile. The complexity of its structure is mirrored in the three levels of the exterior...The view into the dome from below reveals a realm of soaring height and brilliant luminescence in which float kaleidoscopic images of circles, semicircles, and diminishing hexagons that cut across corners as they rise to the star-shaped base of the lantern." — Marvin Trachtenberg and Isabelle Hyman. Architecture: from Prehistory to Post-Modernism. p350. | |||||||||
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Sources on Sindone Chapel
Mitchell Beazley. The World Atlas of Architecture. New York: Portland House, 1988. ISBN 0-517-66875-0. p307. 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, p814. Description, p815. — 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. interior photo, p93. H. A. Meek. Guarino Guarini and His Architecture. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1988. ISBN 0-300-03989-1. LC 87-24636. NA1123.G8M44 1988. elevation drawing of drum and dome, f60, p76. plan drawing of dome, f59, p75. section drawing, f56, p72. plan drawing, f54, p69. elevation, plan, and section drawing of entrance to stairs, f53, p67. Christian Norberg-Schulz. Baroque Architecture. New York: Rizzoli International Publications, 1986. ISBN 08478-0693-6. LC 85-30011. NA590.N6. section drawing, f179, p135. axonometric drawing, f178, p135. plan drawing, f177, p134. Marvin Trachtenberg and Isabelle Hyman. Architecture, from Prehistory to Post-Modernism. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1986. ISBN 0-13-044702-1. NA200.T7. p350. Kevin Matthews. The Great Buildings Collection on CD-ROM. Artifice, 2001. ISBN 0-9667098-4-5.— Available at Amazon.com
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