Letarouilly on Renaissance Rome

John Barrington Bayley, Henry Hope Reed, David Mayernik

• Publisher: Dover Publications
• Year: 2013
• eBook ISBN:
  9780486267210
• Topic: Architecture
• Subtopic: History of Architecture

Architect and engraver Paul Letarouilly dedicated more than 30 years of his life to creating the most complete collection of plans, elevations, and details of the buildings and monuments of Renaissance Rome. This student's edition of his achievement features highlights from five massive volumes, originally published between 1825 and 1882. Its systematic overview illustrates the principles of design behind the works of Michelangelo, Sangallo, Peruzzi, Vignola, Bramante, Bernini, Fontana, dalla Porta, Maderno, Borromini, and other great builders of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
Letarouilly's engravings, which illustrate the translation of the principles behind classical architecture into the new age of the Renaissance, served as a major source of inspiration from the moment of their publication, and they remain standard references to this day. This edition includes informative text by classical architect and scholar John Barrington Bayley that offers insights into the architecture of Rome's palaces, villas, and squares as well as St. Peter's and the Vatican. Ideal for students of classical, Renaissance, and Roman architecture, this affordable volume also constitutes a useful guide for visitors to Rome.

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES

FIG. 1 Paul Letarouilly

FIG. 2 Courtyard of the Collège de France, Paris, 1831–1842 by Paul Letarouilly

FIG. 3 The New Wing of the Frick Collection, New York, 1977, designed by John Barrington Bayley

FIG. 4 An Ionic capital of the New Wing of the Frick Collection

INTRODUCTION—LIST OF PLATES

1. Courtyard of the Palazo Spada (Girault)

2. The Gesu and the Casa Professa dei Gesuiti

3. San Biagio e Carlo ai Catinari and the Convento dei Barnabiti

4. Dome, S. Andrea al Quiriale (Bernini)

5. Section perspective of S. Ivo (Borromini)

I. THE ROMAN VISION

FIG. 1 Rue de Rivoli, Paris, 1811–1835, by Percier and Fontaine

FIG. 2 The Maison Carrée, Nîmes, France, 19 B.C.

FIG. 3 Pont du Gard, Nîmes, France, 19 B.C.

FIG. 4 Place de la Concorde, Paris, 1749–1753, by Ange-Jacques Gabriel

FIG. 5 East Front of the Louvre, Paris, 1667–1674, by Claude Perrault

FIG. 6 The West Front of the United States Capitol

FIG. 7 John Barrington Bayley’s design for the new West Front to the United States Capitol

FIG. 8 Plan by John Barrington Bayley for the new West Front of the United States Capitol. The additions are cross-hatched

II. SQUARES

FIG. 1 Elevation of the Capitoline from Georges Gromort, Eléments d’architecture classique

FIG. 2 The old Senatorial Palace, ca. 1540

FIG. 3 The old Palace of the Conservators

FIG. 4 Elevation of a bay of one of the side palaces on the Capitoline from Georges Gromort, Eléments d’architecture classique

FIG. 5 Tower of St. Paul’s Church, New York

FIG. 6 Trophies of Marius by Antoine-Martin Garnaud from Hector d’Espouy, Fragments from Greek and Roman Architecture

FIG. 7 Statue of Marcus Aurelius on the Capitoline

FIG. 8 View of the Capitoline, 1569, by Etienne Du-pérac

FIG. 9 Plan of the Capitoline from Georges Gromort, Eléments d’architecture classique

PLATE 1 View of the Square and the Buildings of the Capitoline or Campidoglio

PLATE 2 View of the Senatorial Palace or Palazzo Senatorio

PLATE 3 The Facade of the Palace of the Conservators or Palazzo dei Conservatori View across the Square from the Portico of the Palace of the Conservators or Palazzo dei Conservatori

III. COURTYARDS

FIG. 1 The Colosseum by Louis Due from Hector d’Espouy, Fragments from Greek and Roman Architecture

FIG. 2 The Theatre of Marcellus in Rome by Edmond Paulin from Hector d’Espouy, Fragments fromGreek and Roman Architecture

FIG. 3 Courtyard of the Freer Gallery of Art.

FIG. 4 The Health and Human Services Building in Washington, D.C.

FIG. 5 The Pergamon Altar. Reconstruction in the Pergamon Museum, Berlin

FIG. 6 The Villard Houses by McKim, Mead & White on Madison Avenue and 50th Street, New York

FIG. 7 The Convent of the Sacred Heart, formerly the Otto Kahn mansion, on Fifth Avenue and 91st Street, New York, by G. Armstrong Stenhouse

PLATE 1 Plan of the Court of the Sapienza

PLATE 2 View of the Court of the Sapienza

PLATE 3 Section of the Long Side of the Court of the Sapienza

PLATE 4 The Courtyard of the Mattei Palace

PLATE 5 The Cloister of Santa Maria della Pace

PLATE 6 View of One Side of the Courtyard of the Cloister of Santa Maria della Pace

PLATE 7 Details of the Two Orders of the Courtyard of the Cloister of Santa Maria della Pace

PLATE 8 The Principal Facade of the Chancellery

PLATE 9 The Elevation of a Side of the Court of the Chancellery

PLATE 10 View of the Court from the Portico of the Ground Floor of the Chancellery

PLATE 11 View of the Court from the Portico of the Piano Nobile of the Chancellery

IV. PALACES

PLATE 1 Facade of the Little Spada Palace

PLATE 2 Facade of the Muti Papazzurri Palace in the Piazza di SS. Apostoli

PLATE 3 Facade of the Casa Professa de’ Gesuiti in the Piazza del Gesu

PLATE 4 Palace near the Piazza della Pace

PLATE 5 House on the Via del Governo Vecchio

PLATE 6 House on the Piazza Borghese

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Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• List of Illustrations
• Preface by Arthur Ross
• Biographical Notes by Nicholas King and Henry Hope Reed
• Introduction to the Dover Edition by David Mayernik
• I. THE ROMAN VISION
• II. SQUARES
• III. COURTYARDS
• IV. PALACES
• V. THE MASSIMO PALACES
• VI. THE FARNESE PALACE
• VII. THE DECORATION OF VAULTS
• VIII. VILLAS
• IX. DOMES
• X. SAINT PETER’S SQUARE
• XI. SAINT PETER’S
• XII. THE VATICAN
• XIII. THE VATICAN—THE GREAT ROOMS
• APPENDIX