San Lorenzo Turin
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 | San Lorenzo, Turin |
| Designer | Guarino Guarini |
| Location | Turin, Italy |
| Date | 1666 to 1679 |
| Building Type | church |
| Climate | mediterranean |
| Context | urban |
| Architectural Style | Baroque |
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| At Great Buildings | http://www.GreatBuildings.com/buildings/San_Lorenzo_Turin.html |
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"The Church of San Lorenzo, Turin, was begun by Guarino Guarini in 1668 for the Theatine Order, of which he was a member. The plan is remarkable for its curved bays pressing into the central domed space—an idea developed from Borromini—but the dome is even more remarkable. It is a masterpiece of ingenious construction—the ribs actually carry the lantern above them—which is also used to produce dramatic contrasts of light and shade."
— John Julius Norwich, ed. Great Architecture of the World. p176.
"A Guarini dome, such as the one in his Church of S. Lorenzo in Turin, becomes a luminous cage of slender intersecting ribs over which floats the light-filled space of the lantern visible through the complex rib network; the base of the dome is a circle, and the base of the buoyant lantern is formed by eight semicircular lobes, each framed by a pair of splayed ribs. This extraordinary configuration of space, light, and mass has been described by a Guarini scholar as 'a great work of hallucinatory engineering'."
— Marvin Trachtenberg and Isabelle Hyman. Architecture: from Prehistory to Post-Modernism. p349.
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Roger H. Clark and Michael Pause. Precedents in Architecture. New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1985. concentricity diagram, p203. transformation diagram, p208. — Updated edition available at Amazon.com
Pierre Charpentrat. Living Architecture: Baroque Italy and Central Europe. Photographs by Peter Heman. London: Oldbourne Book Co., 1967. exterior photo of tower, p41.
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, p813. Discussion, p815.
H. A. Meek. Guarino Guarini and His Architecture. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1988. ISBN 0-300-03989-1. LC 87-24636. NA1123.G8M44 1988. elevation drawing as designed, f48, p59. elevation drawing as executed, f49, p59. section drawing, f40, p50.
Christian Norberg-Schulz. Baroque Architecture. New York: Rizzoli International Publications, 1986. ISBN 08478-0693-6. LC 85-30011. NA590.N6. axonometric drawing, f186, p139. reconstruction perspective drawing, f185, p139. plan drawing, f183, p138. section drawing, f182, p138.
John Julius Norwich, ed. Great Architecture of the World. London: Mitchell Beazley Publishers, 1975. NA200.G76. ISBN 0-394-49887-9. p176.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
Marvin Trachtenberg and Isabelle Hyman. Architecture, from Prehistory to Post-Modernism. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1986. ISBN 0-13-044702-1. NA200.T7. p349.
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