Santa Maria di Loreto (Rome, Italy) : Detail of architectural work

Creator:

Bramante, Donato, 1444-1514
Duca, Giacomo del, ca. 1520-1604
Sangallo, Antonio da, the younger, 1484-1546

Published/Created:

Rome, Lazio, Italy
ca. 1507-1577

Date Depicted:

ca. 1990's
1500 AD - 1699 AD

Materials:

brick
marble

Notes:

[The lower church is by Antonio da Sangallo the Younger built in 1525. The two side doors and the drum, dome and lantern were added by Del Duca between 1573-1577. Anthony Blunt refers to lantern as "a brilliant but fantastic structure which deeply shocked his successors and was never imitated."] Two important ecclesiastical commissions for Giacomo date from the mid-1570s. S Maria di Loreto, Rome, had been begun by Donato Bramante ca. 1507 and continued by Sangallo. Built on a restricted site, to a centralized plan, it has a square base and an octagonal drum with a prominent cupola; the small chancel projects at the rear. The lower parts of the church and the principal façade to the south were complete when work restarted under Giacomo, after 1573. The detailing of the body of the church is restrained, but Giacomo's cupola is a powerful work, with strongly moulded ribs and circular windows in bold, simple frames; it displays his inheritance from Michelangelo in a context too refined for the strength of its forms. The complex lantern, with its pinnacles and colonettes, is too elaborate for the bold expression of the dome. His designs for the flanking façades broadly respect Sangallo's principal elevation.

Topics:

Architecture -- Italy -- 16th century -- (YVRC)

Period/Style:

Baroque
Renaissance

Culture:

Italian

Accession Number:

1A1-SA-SL-D7

Genre:

architecture (AAT)
churches (AAT)

Format:

Image

Content Type:

Sculptures, Models, & Architecture

Rights:

Copyright Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc
The use of this image may be subject to the copyright law of the United States (Title 17, United States Code) or to site license or other rights management terms and conditions. The person using the image is liable for any infringement.

Access Restrictions:

Yale Community Only

Digital:

architectural exteriors carving ; construction buildings; religious buildings; churches

Source Creator:

Gilchrist, Scott

Source Title:

Archivision Module One

Source Created:

2878 Chamonix, Montreal QC
Archivision, Inc.
ca. 1990's

Source Note:

Purchase, Visual Resources Collection, May, 2011; photographer Scott Gilchrist

Yale Collection:

Visual Resources Collection

Digital Collection:

Visual Resources Collection

Local Record Number:

4152

OID:

10111051

PID:

digcoll:1829017