San Zeno Maggiore
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 | San Zeno Maggiore |
| Designer | unknown |
| Location | Verona, Italy |
| Date | 1120 to 1138 |
| Building Type | church |
| Climate | mediterranean |
| Context | -- |
| Architectural Style | Romanesque |
| Street Address | |
| Notes | sited with campanile and rough tower. memorable bronze door panels. |
| At Great Buildings | http://www.GreatBuildings.com/buildings/San_Zeno_Maggiore.html |
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"Facing an open piazza and cradled between a well-turned campanile (1178) and a haphazard but apparently habitable ancient tower (fourteenth century), its tufa fa�ade asserts a sharp geometry with a quietly stated verticality. Note that it is subdivided by narrow pilasters—a line of tiny arches in between—and given accents by the large rose window and the projecting, trimly arched porch. The north wall, on the other hand, stresses the horizontal—such dichotomy in the Middle Ages was not uncommon—its alternating bands of light and dark stone finding a congenial echo in the campanile. This Romanesque church is the fifth on the site, earlier ones having been destroyed by fire or man or having been outgrown. Part of the present interior dates from a fourteenth-century expansion, when a colorful Gothic keel-shaped ceiling of painted wood was installed."
— G. E. Kidder Smith. Looking at Architecture. p48.
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Werner Blaser and Monica Stucky. Drawings of Great Buildings. Boston: Birkhauser Verlag, 1983. ISBN 3-7643-1522-9. LC 83-15831. NA2706.U6D72 1983. plan and section drawings, p60. — 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. discussion p48. overview photo, p48, door close-up, p49.
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. interior photo, fB, p476. exterior photo, fA, p476.
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