St Paul's Cathedral: Sir Christopher Wren

St Paul's Cathedral: Sir Christopher Wren
ISBN-10
0714829986
ISBN-13
9780714829982
Category
Architecture / Individual Architects & Firms / General
Pages
60
Language
English
Published
1995-11-05
Publisher
Phaidon Press
Authors
Vaughan Hart, Mr Vaughan Hart, Sir Christopher Wren

Description

St Paul's Cathedral is known as Sir Christopher Wren's masterwork, combiningenaissance and Baroque elements with a geometric form. It is a celebrationf the refinement of the Vitruvian Orders and testimony to Wren's capacity totilize traditional Gothic and Renaissance building methods within his owne-examination of architectural practice based on empirical reasoning and hisathematical knowledge.;The book provides a through analysis of Wren'snitial Cathedral schemes to the final built design - the first Protestantathedral to be built in Britain. The details both of the exterior and thenterior, as well as the Cathedral's constructed dome, have been extensivelyhotographed providing a presentation of this building. Built over a 30-yeareriod following the Great Fire, the Cathedral still dominates the City ofondon.

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