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702132/702835 European Architecture B
Christopher Wren
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Sir Christopher WrenSir Christopher WrenMUAS 16,147MUAS 16,147
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Christopher Wrenfirst major Baroque architect in Britain
a polymath with an intellectual approacheasy mastery as opposed to virtuosity
rationality and good taste
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EARLY EXPERIMENTSEARLY EXPERIMENTS
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SheldonianTheatre, Oxford, by Christopher Wren, 1664-9: interior view;
roof truss
Whinney, Wren, p 20; Downes, Architecture of
Wren, pl 53
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Sheldonian Theatre, Oxford, from the northGeoffrey Beard, The Work of Christopher Wren (London 1982), pl 61; John Summerson,
Architecture in Britain 1530 to 1830, (4th ed, Harmondsworth [Middlesex] 1963 [1953]), pl 75B
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Sheldonian Theatre, Oxford, South frontMiles Lewis; Summerson,
Architecture in Britain , pl 75A
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Pembroke College Chapel, Cambridge, by Christopher Wren,
1663-5
Miles Lewis
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St Paul's Cathedral, with Jones’s alterationsSummerson, Architecture in Britain, pl 47(B)
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Old St Paul's, proposal for the addition of a dome, by Wren, 1666, dome in elevation & section
Downes, Architecture of Wren, pls 20, 21
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Wren's plan for London, 1666, with churches shaded blackDownes, Architecture of Wren, p 50, fig 5
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ST PAUL'S CATHEDRALST PAUL'S CATHEDRAL
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St Paul's Cathedral: detail of the London plan, c 1666Beard, Work of Wren, pl 80
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St Paul's Cathedral: first model design, c 1669: part plan & sectionDownes, Architecture of Wren, p 53, fig 6
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St Paul's Cathedral: Greek cross, design c 1672-3plan & elevation
Downes, Architecture of Wren, p 70; Beard, Work of Wren, pl 34
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St Paul's Cathedral plansGreek cross, c 1672; Great Model, c 1673-4
Downes, Architecture of Wren, p 70
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St Paul's: the Great Model, 1673MUAS 4,493
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St Paul's: plans by WrenDownes, Christopher Wren, pp 165-7
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St Paul's, the Warrant Design,
1675: section & plan
Downes, Architecture of Wren, pl 57, p 70
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Ely Cathedral, c1080-1106,
crossing rebuilt after 1332: south transept from the
octagon
Elfincolor, 591B4
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St Paul's, the Warrant Design, 1675west & south elevations
Beard, Work of Wren, pl 90; Downes, Architecture of Wren, pl 56
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St Paul's Cathedral, London, by Sir Christopher Wren,as designed, 1675: south elevation
Downes, Architecture of Wren, pl 58.
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St Paul's Cathedral, London, as designed by Wren, 1675, sectionDownes, Architecture of Wren, pl 59
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St Paul's, plan as executed, 1675-1710Downes, Architecture of Wren, pl 70
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St Paul's: section through choir & view of buttressesWhinney, Wren, p 98; Beard, Work of Wren, pl 101
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St Paul's, section though dome, looking
east
Whinney, Wren, p 120
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dome of St Paul's, as built by Wren, 1675-1710section & plan of carpentry, axonometric section
Francis Price, The British Carpenter (London 1753), facing p 30Margaret Whinney, Wren (London 1971), p 121
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Baptistery, Pisa: original and present elevations & sectionsE H Swift, Roman Sources of Christian Art (New York 1951), after Rouhault de Fleury, Les
Monuments du Pise
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St Paul's, overall view of the ultimate designMUAS 14,988
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St Paul's, west
elevation
Campbell, Vitruvius Britannicus
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St Paul's west front, engraved view by Henry Hulsborgh, 1713, and detail of the west towers as built
Beard, Work of Wren, pl 107; MUAS 14,986
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west towers of St Paul’s, London
Sant' Agnesein Piazza Navona,
Rome
MUAS 14,986, 13,504
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St Paul's Catheral, ondon,bny Christopher Wren]Dôme des Invalides, Paris, by Jules Hardouin-Mansart, 1680-1:
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St Paul's, view from the south-eastMUAS 24,420
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St Paul's, detail of the south sideMUAS 24,422
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Sta Maria della Pace, Rome, by Pietro da Cortona, 1656-7: contemporary view
Varriano, Italian Baroque and Rococo, p 116
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St Paul's, nave, looking east ; S
Giorgio Maggiore, Venice, Andrea
Palladio, 1565-80
Elfincolor, 20A2 (192) ; Miles Lewis
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St Paul's, the crossing, looking
south-west
Elfincolor, 20A4 (214); Downes, Architecture of
Wren, pl 142
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SECULAR WORKSSECULAR WORKS
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Trinity College Library, Cambridge, by Wren, 1676-84: view from Neville's Court
Elfincolor, 570G1
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Trinity Library: original drawings by WrenDownes, Christopher Wren, p 26
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Trinity Library: diagram of floor constructionDownes, Christopher Wren, p 32
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Trinity Libraryinterior
Downes, Christopher Wren, p 32
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Trinity Library: rear viewMiles Lewis
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Trinity Library from the CamElfincolor, 570G3
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Greenwich Hospital: Wren's scheme of 1694: elevationMUAS 6,134
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Greenwich Hospitalfirst plan
Whinney, Wren, p 189
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Greenwich Hospital first design, perspective viewMargaret Richardson, John Soane: Connoisseur and Collector (London 1995), no 10
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Greenwich Hospital, scheme as built, 1696-1715: perspective viewColen Campbell, Vitruvius Britannicus, III, pp 3-4
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Greenwich Hospital: aerial viewRoy Strong, Royal Gardens (London 1992), p 179
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Greenwich Hospital: planSummerson, Architecture in Britain, p 174
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Greenwich Hospital: modern view from the riverMUAS 4,495
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Greenwich Hospital:
view within the forecourt
the eastern dome and screen
Beard, Work of Wren, pl 67, replacing Downes, Christopher
Wren, p 116; Downes, Christopher Wren, p 116
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THE CITY CHURCHESTHE CITY CHURCHES
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some of the City churches of London by Christopher Wren, late C17thDownes, Christopher Wren, pp 144-5
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more of the City churches of London by Christopher Wren, late C17thWhinney, Wren, pp 50-51
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St Stephen, Walbrook, by Wren, 1672-9
isometric diagram & plan
MUAS 25,053, 9,835
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St Stephen, Walbrook: interiors looking east & westMUAS 2,123, 4,488
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St Stephen, Walbrook: the domeMUAS 24,413
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St Mildred, Bread Street, begun 1677,
destroyed 1941 interior & plan
Whinney, Wren, pp 50-51; MUAS 10,961
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St Lawrence, Jewry, 1671-87: MUAS 2,206
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St Bride, Fleet Street, 1671-8
Miles Lewis; Country Life,CXXIII, 3182 (9 January 1958), p
50
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St Bride, Fleet Street; St James, Piccadilly, 1676-84Country Life, CXXIII, 3182 (9 January 1958), p 50; MUAS 4,436
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St James, Piccadilly, 1676-84Miles Lewis; MUAS 4,436
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St Clement Danes, Strand, 1680-2
Miles Lewis; Whinney, Wren, p 50
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St Clement Danes, north sideMiles Lewis
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St Clement Danes, from the west, with Gibbs's steepledrawing by J Coney, for the Architectural Series of London
Churches, 1818; MUAS 24,409
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towers and steeples by WrenMUAS 2,757
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Tom Tower, Christ Church College, Oxford, 1682: from the west & the east
Miles Lewis
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St Mary, Aldermary, Queen Victoria Street, London, by Wren, 1681-2;St Mary Somerset, London, by Wren, 1686-95, surviving tower
MUAS 24,419; 4,322
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St Benet, Paul's Wharf, 1677-83; St Andrew-by-the-Wardrobe, 1685-93 Downes, Architecture of Wren, pl 99; MUAS 4,323
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St Martin Ludgate, Ludgate Hill, by Wren, 1677-84: elevationBeard, Work of Wren, pl 171; Miles Lewis
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St Augustine, Watling Street, by
Wren, 1680-3
Miles Lewis
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St Bride, Fleet Street, steeple, 1701-3
Miles Lewis; Jeffery, The City Churches, p 224, fig 9
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St Charles Borromeo, Antwerp, probably by Pieter Huyssens, 1620: steeple; St Mary-le-Bow, steeple as first proposed (apparently before 1677; St Magnus Martyr, by Wren,
completed 1705Whinney, Wren, p 79; Jeffery, The City Churches, p 39, fig 10; Amery, Wren's London, p 343
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St Mary-le-Bow, Cheapside, by Wren, steeple 1678-80elevation and section of steeple; view; detail of steeple
Colen Campbell, Vitruvius Britannicus, II, p 26; Beard, Work of Wren, pl 139; MUAS 24,417
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St Mary-le-Bow doorway; design by François Mansartfor a doorway for the Hôtel de Conti, Paris, after 1648
Whinney, Wren, p 71
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St Vedast, Foster Lane,
1670-3: steeple 1694-7
Miles LewisDownes,
Christopher Wren, p 174
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