. A history of architecture in Italy from the time of Constantine to the dawn of the renaissance. wereentering on the great problem of the dome of their cathedral, thepeople of Bologna had brought themselves to the resolution to eclipseall other cities by a church whose magnitude and splendor shouldput it beyond rivalry. The carrying out of this great work theywere wisely content to confide to the hands of a native architect,Antonio, son of Vincenzo, a citizen of mark and standing in thecommunity.^ Antonio proceeded to enter on this important workwith deliberation, agreeing in the first place
. A history of architecture in Italy from the time of Constantine to the dawn of the renaissance. wereentering on the great problem of the dome of their cathedral, thepeople of Bologna had brought themselves to the resolution to eclipseall other cities by a church whose magnitude and splendor shouldput it beyond rivalry. The carrying out of this great work theywere wisely content to confide to the hands of a native architect,Antonio, son of Vincenzo, a citizen of mark and standing in thecommunity.^ Antonio proceeded to enter on this important workwith deliberation, agreeing in the first place to build of stone andplaster a correct model of the church, after his design already deter-mined on, at a scale of one twelfth full size, showing all doorways,porches, windows, vaults, chapels, towers, and other features of theproposed structure. The model was built as agreed, and the work 1 Perhaps in company with Frate Manfredi, who had beg-un twenty years earlier theAnnunziata at Florence, and later the Gothic church of the Serviti at Bologna, which hedid not live to finish. THE GOTHIC 213. Vi ~M::::::?:Si-:: -^ X X V on the church was begun promptly in September, 1390, and carriedforward with so much energy that in October, 1392, a mass is saidto have been celebrated in one of the chapels of the nave. In clear-ing- oround for the foun-dations, no less thaneiofht churches were de-stroyed, besides a greatnumber of houses. Al-thouoh the corner-stonewas laid under one ofthe piers of the centraloctagon, yet the seriouswork of construction wasbegun with the founda-tions of the west frontThe work on the naveand aisles appears tohave gone forward withlessening energy; butthis portion of the workwas nearly finished by1430, when the attentionof the builders was turnedtowards the completionof the plan. This was,however, never seriouslyundertaken, and about1440 the work was aban-doned. The faQade, which had been begun before the end of thecentury, was carried up some thirty feet, and n
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