San Sebastiano
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| San Sebastiano | |
| Designer | Leon Battista Alberti |
| Location | Mantua, Italy |
| Date | 1459 |
| Building Type | church |
| Climate | mediterranean |
| Context | urban |
| Architectural Style | Renaissance |
| Street Address | |
| Notes | -- |
| At Great Buildings | http://www.GreatBuildings.com/buildings/San_Sebastiano.html |
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"Alberti's churches in Mantua, designed for Marquis Ludovico Gonzaga, are reinterpretations of ecclesiastical architecture in antique terms. San Sebastiano is a Greek-cross votive church raised over a high crypt packed with piers. The fa�ade (the steps are modern) is a flattened temple front articulated with four pilasters, the central window breaking into the pediment. It is a puzzling structure, never completed, and marred by twentieth-century restorations."
— Sir Banister Fletcher. A History of Architecture. discussion p854.
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Roger H. Clark and Michael Pause. Precedents in Architecture. New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1985. grid geometry diagram, p195.— Updated edition available at Amazon.com
Renato De Fusco. L'Architettura Del Quattrocento. Torino: Unione Tipografico-Editrice Torinese, 1984. ISBN 88-02-03801-5. NA1115.D37 1984. section drawing, p90. plan drawing of crypt, p90.
Sir Banister Fletcher. A History of Architecture. Boston: Butterworths, 1987. ISBN 0-408-01587-X. NA200.F63 1987. discussion, p854.
Richard E. Lamoureux. Alberti's Church of San Sebastiano in Mantua. New York: Graland Publishing, 1979. ISBN 0-8240-3958-0. LC 78-74370. NA5621.M33L35. site plan drawing, f20, p254. section drawing, f28, p262.
Peter Murray. Architecture of the Renaissance. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1971. ISBN 8109-1000-4. LC 70-149850. NA510.M87. elevation reconstruction drawing, f77, p63. Wittkower's reconstruction. plan drawing, f78, p63.
Pier Luigi Nervi, ed. History of World Architecture. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1971. LC 70-149850. NA510.M87. plan, elevation drawings, p63.
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