Repishti cap. I, pp. 13-124 Schofield cap II pp. 125-251: 126 pages + 99 = pp. 235 Repishti and Schofield cap. III pp. 251-350: 99 pages + all the other work done together- collections of drawings, texts and documents. The book collects the 31 debates on the façade of the Duomo di Milano in the Renaissance and Baroque, the richest surviving debates on any monument in Italian architecture of the 17th and 18th centuries. Repishti examines the huge collection of surviving drawings for the façade in cap. I In cap. II R V Schofield discusses in vast detail the ecclesiastical and architectural ideology behind the debates in Milan and Italy and explains why it became a doctrinal necessity to build churches (the house of God) as magnificently as possible for many sections of the most orthodox counterreformation ecclesiastics. The discussion therefore provides an explanation of how Baroque splendour in architecture, starting from the Jesuits' S. Fedele in Milan and their Gesù in Rome, was justified by these ecclesiastics. The discussion includes a full examination of Catholic as opposed to Lutheran and Calvinistic attitudes to magnificence; the Catholic defence of such attitudes; the central disputes between Bellarmino, Baronio, and Hospiniano and many others: the attitudes revealed in the writings of Cinquecento and Seicento architects towards magnificentia; the neutrality of their attitude towards the use of the pagan classical orders in catholic ecclesiastical; the attitudes of the Borromeo, Carlo and Federico, to these vastly detailed debates; the question of pauperismo (which is shown to be largely a modern fiction) in ecclesiastical architecture as against splendour advocated by the hardliners; all these attitudes can be found in the debates over the façade of the Duomo when they fight over the use of a Gothic versus a Classical style. Cap. III by Repishti and Schofield; a minute analysis of the often complicated and often very sophisticated battles about architectural details.
Architettura e controriforma. I dibattiti per la facciata del Duomo di Milano 1582-1682
SCHOFIELD, RICHARD
2004-01-01
Abstract
Repishti cap. I, pp. 13-124 Schofield cap II pp. 125-251: 126 pages + 99 = pp. 235 Repishti and Schofield cap. III pp. 251-350: 99 pages + all the other work done together- collections of drawings, texts and documents. The book collects the 31 debates on the façade of the Duomo di Milano in the Renaissance and Baroque, the richest surviving debates on any monument in Italian architecture of the 17th and 18th centuries. Repishti examines the huge collection of surviving drawings for the façade in cap. I In cap. II R V Schofield discusses in vast detail the ecclesiastical and architectural ideology behind the debates in Milan and Italy and explains why it became a doctrinal necessity to build churches (the house of God) as magnificently as possible for many sections of the most orthodox counterreformation ecclesiastics. The discussion therefore provides an explanation of how Baroque splendour in architecture, starting from the Jesuits' S. Fedele in Milan and their Gesù in Rome, was justified by these ecclesiastics. The discussion includes a full examination of Catholic as opposed to Lutheran and Calvinistic attitudes to magnificence; the Catholic defence of such attitudes; the central disputes between Bellarmino, Baronio, and Hospiniano and many others: the attitudes revealed in the writings of Cinquecento and Seicento architects towards magnificentia; the neutrality of their attitude towards the use of the pagan classical orders in catholic ecclesiastical; the attitudes of the Borromeo, Carlo and Federico, to these vastly detailed debates; the question of pauperismo (which is shown to be largely a modern fiction) in ecclesiastical architecture as against splendour advocated by the hardliners; all these attitudes can be found in the debates over the façade of the Duomo when they fight over the use of a Gothic versus a Classical style. Cap. III by Repishti and Schofield; a minute analysis of the often complicated and often very sophisticated battles about architectural details.
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