The Lives of Celebrated Architects, Ancient and Modern (Volume 2); With Historical and Critical Observations on Their Works, and on the Principles of the Art (Paperback)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: the interior, and with eight columns on the exterior, and left a design for the tribune or choir, decorated, according to his own style, with simplicity and solidity. After some years Rocco Pennone undertook to finish it; but neglecting the design of Galeazzo, he introduced a superabundance of clumsy ornaments, both in the vaulting and on the walls, which are faced with various marbles, niches, small columns, irregular ornaments, and other extravagancies, devoid of all taste or architectural beauty. GUILLAUME FILANDRO (Born 1505, died 1565,) Was born of respectable parents at Chatillon, on the Seine. Giorgio d'Amagnac, bishop of Rhodes, and afterwards cardinal, delighted with the wit and learning of Filandro, took him with him to Italy, when the prelate went as ambassador to Venice. Filandro then studied architecture under Serlio. He was made a canon of Rhodes, where he became celebrated for his Commentaries on Vitruvius. He joined his eminent patron at Tolosa, and died there. Among his posthumous works are some treatises on the cutting and polishing of marbles, on the colours of stone, painting, and the composition of colours and shadowing. PIRRO LIGORIO, A Neapolitan, (Died 1580,) A nobleman of Seggio, of Porta Nuova. Under Paul IV. he was made architect of St. Peter's ; but in consequence of his disputes with Michael Angelo, the pontiff, although himself a Neapolitan, deprived him of the charge. Pius IV. employed Ligorio to make a design for the sepulchre of Paul IV. The small palace in the Belvedere wood is said to be the work of this architect, as is also the Lancellotti palace, in the Piazza Navona, on the Cuccagna. He was also a painter, and executed a number of works at Rome in chiaroscura, and of a yellow colour, in imitation of metal. He was likewise...