FACULTY OF ARCHITECTURE AND PLANNING

,AKTU LUCKNOW

HISTORY OF
ARCHITECTURE –III
RAR-407

Renaissance
Architecture
TOPIC:-SANTA MARÍA BY:-
DELLA GRAZIE Tushar sharma
Milan, Lombardy, Italy Barch IInd year ‘B’
2019-2020
1805181068
SANTA MARÍA
DELLA GRAZIE
Milan, lombardy,
italy
Content
• Introduction • Church
• Concept • Reforms attributed to
• Description
Bramante
• Convert
• Plan
• Cloister
• Section • Dome
• Floor • Central door
• Facade • Artwork
• Tiburio • Structure
• Spaces • Materials
Introduction
• The church of santa maria delle
Architect:- grazie, declared a UNESCO world
Giovanni anto
nio amadeo
heritage .
And • the destruction caused by the
Guiniforte sol
ari bombing.
Built in:-
1463 – 1481 • Carried out in 1977 and was
-1490 completed in 1999 .
Remodeled
in :-
1908, 1924,
1953 ,1977
Location :-
Milan,
lombardy,
italy

Santa maria delle grazie

Concept sacristy

cloister
• Ludovico le Moro decided
to make the church of
Santa Maria delle Grazie
• In 1497, his wife Upper room
Beatrice d’Este was
buried in the Church.
• According to tradition,
built a tunnel that
church
connects directly to the
castle, called “Sforzesco
the convent”.
Bird eye view on the church –
santa maria delle grazie
Description

• The building of the

church began, from
the apse
• In the project, Solari
follows the tradition
of the Gothic basilica
north of the country,
with three ships,
ribbed vaults and
exposed brick walls.
Santa maria delle grazie
 Plan

The Chaples

The Apse
The Aisles

102 feets
The Nave

The Aisles
The Chaples

264 feets
 Section
The Dome

The Vaults

The Tiburio
75 feet 100 feet
52 feet

The Apse
Floor
Arches Apse

• The plan of the church is a rectangular room with

three aisles wide
• shallow, separated by stone columns that facilitate
the passage of light, creating a unified, developed
more horizontally than vertically.
• The aisles are covered with cross vaults with folds
and leaves capital lines.
• The ornaments of the capitals, not smooth leaves as
• with motifs reminiscent of the Corinthian order
• The aisles are filled with seven square side chapels,
• lit by a central round window and two windows with
arches to the sides
• The tradition of the gothic basilica of the country The central nave
with thee ships ribbed vaults and exposed brick
walls. Central nave
Facade Circular window
Central door

• The simple facade is divided

into five funds six buttresses.
• The width is almost twice the
height, which is still higher than
that of the interior corridors.
• The sober decor is created by
molded terracotta reliefs
framed windows with mullions
and rosettes, and arches that
adorn the crown.
Front elevation of the church - santa
maria delle grazie
Tiburio
circular window

• Polygonal base dome with

pyramid-shaped cover.
• Used in the lombardy Circular window
during the renaissance above the triburio
was originally attributed
to bramante .
• this dome continues the
gothic style of the first
part of the building, but
with romanesque
influences. Pillar on the Tiburio - the central
central door front door
The pillar on the tiburio
Spaces Vaults
Nave

Apse

Arches chaples

• Solari Guiniforte design

consisted of a convent with its
church.
• The convent was completed in
1469 and the church later, in
1482.
• Bramante redesigned the apse,
the cloister, the grandstand
and the old sacristy.
Aisles
• Construction was completed The nave leading towards the apse
around 1490.
Church
The Chaples
Aisles

• The church has seven chapels

square on each side solari work,
• The left dedicated to the
madonna delle grazie.
• Chapels
• Oldest part of the church, is the
gothic style chaples.

The chaples
Reforms attributed to Bramante

• Great expansion of the structure

• Large semicircular apses
• A majestic dome surrounded by columns,
Dome with
• A beautiful cloister drum

• the refectory.

Vault

Apse
 The Aisles The Nave

Convent The Chaples

• The convent designed by

solari was divided around
three cloisters:
• The faculty of nursing
• The great cloister
• The faculty of the dead
The nave ,the
• Three sides for a portico aisles &
the chaples
of columns with gothic
capitals smooth leaves.
Carving on the
column and on the
arches soffit
 The Last Supper
Cloister
• The cloister immediately to the
head of the church
• The famous refectory leonardo
painted the last supper
• A single floor
• With tuscan columns
• spandrels with smooth mirrors .
• The interior of the cloister is
The Last Supper in the cloister
known as the chiostrino delle
rane.
 Dome
• Shape:- hemispherical,
• Stands on drum resting on
scallops within a square area
• Completely masking the
outside ,inside.
• The drum is a sixteen-sided
polygon Quarter-spherical
dome
• Made up of two sections
• The bottom is solid, rises
above the springing of the
vault,
• The upper is stage, shaped
open portico, with an attic
retracted, comes very leg
above the dome covered with
a roof of wood and topped Dome interior view
 Dome with drum

• The lower sections are an order of

pilasters.
• A pair of square-headed windows
with mullions, topped with
pediments, opens through each
face of the polygon.
• The north and south sides of the
square below, each having a lower
apse .
• The wall surfaces are broken into
rectangular sectors with moldings
and pilasters, each alternative
pilaster in the third stage has an
ornamental. Apse rear view
 Circular window Pillar

Central door

• The central door of white marble

• Two cubic pedestals underlie white
marble pillars, adorned with a stone
band with floral motifs.
• Columns are flanked by candlesticks.
• The whiteness of marble and
decorations grace inspired by
classical and geometric nonlinearity
of the portal are enhanced by the
contrast with the sober brick
structure seen in the facade.
Arch on the main central
door of the church
Artwork

• The artistic jewel in the

refectory: the last supper
by leonardo da vinci.
Painting on the Painting on
• The main gate to the ceiling the wall
temple performed in
1463.
• On the door leading to the
sacristy there is a fresco
of bramantino.

The last supper

Structure
The Aisles
• A multilayer structure
• Topped by a dome
• Exterior decorations in brick and plaster. Presbytery at the crossing
• Presbytery
• At the end of the gothic naves with cross vaults had
cruise square with semicircular apses at the ends The Nave

• Four crowns circular sconces decorated with terracotta

and painted like lombard, raising a considerable height
a drum and dome with a lantern.
• Based lifted by solara, erected a dome bramante much
less ornate decoration, surmounted by an arcade.
 Tiburio
Circular

Materials Terracotta brick window

Marble

• The lombard tradition Exterior of

• Terracotta bricks terracotta
bricks
• stone
• Granite columns and capitals.
• The exterior
• terracotta bricks
• marble
• The sacristy vault with ribs made of stucco.
• Directly to apply tempera on plaster walls.

Granite columns
Thank you