COLLECTION NAME:
Archivision Digital Research Library
Record
Title:
Basilica of Sant'Andrea, Mantua
Title:
Façade, detail where central arch meets the façade
Alternate Title:
Basilica di Sant'Andrea di Mantova
View:
Façade, detail where central arch meets the façade
Creators:
Filippo Juvara (Italian architect, 1678-1736); Leon Battista Alberti (Italian architect, 1404-1472); Lodovico Gonzaga (Italian patron, 1412-1478); Luca Fancelli (Italian architect, 1430-1495)
Date:
1470-1472 (design); 1733 (alteration)
Style/Period:
Renaissance
Location:
site: Mantua, Lombardy, Italy
Location Note:
Piazza Mantegna
GPS:
+45.158889+10.794167
Culture:
Italian
Materials:
brick; stucco; stone
Work Types:
buildings; religious buildings; churches
Description:
Executed after Alberti's death by Luca Fancelli; dome added in 1733 by Filippo Juvarra. The church has a Latin-cross plan with a broad nave and a domed crossing. The nave is covered by a vast, longitudinal barrel vault. Alberti drew his inspiration principally from antique example, as he makes clear in his letter to Ludovico II Gonzaga, where he referred to the design as a templum etruscum (a temple of Etruscan type). It is likely modeled on the Basilica of Maxentius in Rome. For the first time in Alberti's architecture the internal arrangement of the building is mirrored in the façade (modeled after the Arch of Titus). This is attached not directly to the main body of the church but, as in S Sebastiano, to a frontal block accommodating a portico. These influences and the use of side chapels instead of aisles, exerted a strong influence upon church design in Rome, Milan, Venice and elsewhere. (Source: Grove Art Online; http://www.groveart.com/)
Classification:
Architecture and City Planning
Technique:
construction (assembling)
Image Rights:
© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.
Vendor ID:
1A1-AL-SA-B6
MDID Identifier:
191
Archivision Set:
Archivision Base Collection
Measurements:
18 m (width, barrel vault, nave)
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