Classicism after the Baroque in Italy, France, and England
Twists and Transformations
Façade of S. Giovanni in Laterano (St. John’s in the Lateran--the Cathedral of Rome) in Rome by Alessandro Galilei, 1732ff
Basilica of S. Giovanni in Laterano compared to the Basilica of S. Paolo fuori le Mura (382-400 C.E.)
La Superga (near Turin, Italy) by Filippo Juvarra 1717-31
St-Sulpice, Paris, by J. N. Servandoni, 1733ff
Ste-Genevieve (Le Pantheon) in Paris by Jacques Germain Soufflot 1757ff
Reconstruction of the interior of the Baths of Caracalla, Rome, 212-216 C.E.(above)
St Mary-le-Strand London, James Gibbs, 1714-17
St. Martin-in-the-Fields, London, James Gibbs, 1721-26
Chiswick House, orig. near London, by Wm. Kent and Richard Boyle (Lord Burlington), 1725f
Cf Villa Rotonda, Vicenza, by Andrea Palladio, c.1550
Inigo Jones Andrea Palladio
Queen Square, Bath, 1729-36
King’s Circus, Bath, 1754ff
The Royal Crescent, Bath, 1767-75