Palazzo Strozzi
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 | Palazzo Strozzi |
| Designer | Benedetto da Maiano |
| Location | Florence, Italy |
| Date | 1489 to 1539 |
| Building Type | palace |
| Climate | mild |
| Context | urban |
| Architectural Style | Italian Renaissance |
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| Notes | Continued by Il Cronaca (Simone del Pollaiuolo). Rusticated walls, arched and rectangular openings. |
| At Great Buildings | http://www.GreatBuildings.com/buildings/Palazzo_Strozzi.html |
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"Strozzi's design culminates the Florentine palazzo 'pattern,' which favors a flat facade of three stories—each level marked by a prominent full-width stringcourse (horizontal banding)—topped by an outsize cornice.... Stone of almost theatrical rustication commands the facade, with semicircular arches crowning all the major openings. Note that the radating voussoirs (wedge-shaped stones) of the arches increase in length as they rise to the keystone. Divided two-arched windows with varying ornamental panels are typical of the upper floors, while squarish windows mark the lower. A haughty main entrance leads to a central courtyard."
— from G.E. Kidder Smith. Looking at Architecture. p68.
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Robert Adam. Classical Architecture. London: Penguin Books, 1990. ISBN 0-670-82613-8. NA260.A26 1990. section drawing, fig a, p57. plan oblique drawing, fig a, p57.
Sir Banister Fletcher. A History of Architecture. London: The Butterworth Group, 1987. ISBN 0-408-01587-X. LC 86-31761. NA200.F63 1987. detail drawing of first floor window, p855. detail drawing of cornice, p855. plan drawing, p855.
Sir Banister Fletcher. Sir Banister Fletcher's A History of Architecture. 18th ed., revised by J.C. Palmes. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1975. ISBN 684-14207-4. NA200.F63. Drawings, p802.— The classic text of architectural history. Expanded 1996 edition available at Amazon.com
G. E. Kidder Smith. Looking at Architecture. New York: Harry N. Abrams, Publishers, 1990. ISBN 0-8109-3556-2. LC 90-30728. NA200.S57 1990. exterior elevation photo, p69. discussion, p68.
John Julius Norwich, ed. Great Architecture of the World. London: Mitchell Beazley Publishers, 1975. elevation drawing, p151.Reprint edition: Da Capo Press, April 1991. ISBN 0-3068-0436-0. — An accessible, inspiring and informative overview of world architecture, with lots of full-color cutaway drawings, and clear explanations. Available at Amazon.com
Russell Sturgis. The Architecture Sourcebook. New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1984. ISBN 0-442-20831-9. LC 84-7275. NA2840.S78. drawing of lower plan, p253. drawing of main facade, p253. lantern detail drawing, p253. [JE]
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