COLLECTION NAME:
Archivision Base to Module 9
Record
Preferred Title:
Doge's Palace
Alternate Title:
Palazzo Ducale di Venezia
Image View:
Stairway of the Giants, view of Neptune
Creator:
Antonio Rizzo (Italian architect, ca. 1440-ca. 1499); Bartolomeo Bono (Italian architect, ca. 1400-ca. 1464); Pietro Lombardo (Italian architect, ca. 1435-1515)
Location:
site: Venice, Veneto, Italy
Date:
1309 -1424 (creation)
Cultural Context:
Italian
Style Period:
Gothic (Medieval)
Work Type 1:
palace
Work Type 2:
palazzo
Classification:
architecture
Material:
marble; stone
Technique:
carving (processes); construction (assembling)
Subjects:
architectural exteriors; New Testament; rulers and leaders; government; Neptune
Description:
"The Doge's Palace, Venice, has façades which date from 1309-1424, designed by Giovanni and Bartolomeo Buon. [Bono] The palace, started in the ninth century, several times rebuilt, and completed in the Renaissance period, forms part of that great scheme of town-planning which was carried out through successive centuries. The façades, with a total length of nearly 152 m (500 ft), have open arcades in the two lower storeys, and the third storey was rebuilt after a fire in the sixteenth century, so as to extend over the arcades. This upper storey is faced with white and rose-coloured marble, resembling ornate windows and finished with a lace-like parapet of oriental cresting. The arcade columns, which originally stood on a stylobate of three steps, now rise from the ground without bases, and the sturdy continuous tracery of the second tier of arcades lends an appearance of strength to the open arches. The capitals of the columns, particularly the angle capital which was eulogised by Ruskin in The Stones of Venic
Collection:
Archivision Addition Module Three
Identifier:
1A2-I-VE-PD-K4
Rights:
© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.
Doge's Palace
