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General view, from the northwest

Title:

Il Redentore

Alternate Title:

Chiesa del Santissimo Redentore

View:

General view, from the northwest

Creators:

Andrea Palladio (Italian architect, 1508-1580)

Date:

begun 1576 (creation)

Style/Period:

Renaissance

Location:

site: Venice, Veneto, Italy

Culture:

Italian

Materials:

stone

Work Types:

buildings; religious buildings; churches; complexes; religious communities; monasteries

Description:

The increasing virtuosity of Palladio's late style culminated in the votive church Il Redentore (begun 1576) in Venice, in the façade of which Palladio refined ideas developed in earlier churches, particularly the tightly interlocking, layered series of pediments echoing the structure behind. The functions of Il Redentore as a votive and processional church as well as a monastery church called for a unifying concept. In his plan Palladio developed a sequence of three distinct spaces: a nave with side chapels but without aisles; a square, domed presbytery with side apses; and a longitudinal and brilliantly lit choir that is visually isolated from the rest of the church by an exedra formed by four columns. Despite their conceptual distinction, however, the relationship of the individual architectural zones to one another is clearly specified, forming an effective whole held together and reinforced by the uninterrupted horizontal cornice. (Source: Grove Art Online; http://www.groveart.com/)

Classification:

Architecture and City Planning

Technique:

construction (assembling)

Image Rights:

Vendor ID:

1A1-PA-IR-A3

MDID Identifier:

4253

Archivision Set:

Archivision Base Collection

Collection:

Archivision Base Module

Collection:

Front Page Content

Record created:

June 7, 2018

Last modified:

Nov. 1, 2018

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