chitecture. Copies prove sad poverty of imagination on the part of the artist copying; and all, therefore, that can be said in favour of such an expedient as that under consideration is, that better forms being submitted in this example to the Germans, it created a dawn of taste to which they had long been strangers. The inaccurate work of Le Roy, which had preceded that of Stuart and Revett on the antiquities of Athens, was the means through which Langhans wrought and tried his successful experiment. In France, as we have already observed, Antoine had tried the employment of the Grecian Doric at Paris, but without the impression produced by Langhans. This architect died at Berlin in 1808, and is, perhaps, entitled to be considered as the father of good architecture in Germany, where he met the highest patronage and encouragement. Knoblesdorff, who died in 1753, had, it must be allowed, prepared in some measure the change which was effected; but neither he nor his successor are known in the world of art beyond the confines of their own country. The names of Boumann, Goutard, Naumann, and others of much merit, occur to us; but the examples which they have left are not of the class that justify specimens for presentation to the reader in a general work of this nature. None of them rise so high as to be put in competition with the examples of the French school; and from the circumstance of the principal works of Germany at Munich, Berlin, &c. having been executed by artists still living, we feel precluded here from allusion to them; because, if we were to enter on an examination of them, we must detail their defects as well as their beauties. An extraordinary species of bigotry has laid hold on some in relation to them, which time will temper; and the world, as it always does, will ultimately come to a right judgment of the rank they are entitled to occupy as works of art. In the other branches of the arts the Germans are rising fast; but there is withal an affectation of the works of the middle ages in their productions, which, impressed as they are with great beauties, are not sufficiently pure to prognosticate the establishment of schools which will sweep all before them, as did those of Italy. SECT. XIX. SPANISH AND PORTUGUESE ARCHITECTURE, 367. What has been said in the preceding section on the architecture of Germany is equally applicable to that of Spain and Portugal, whose architects were educated, if not in the schools of Italy, yet on the principles that guided them. Still, the pre-eminence in architecture on the revival of the arts must be given to these countries over the contemporaneous buildings erected in Germany, and more especially to those of Spain. Under Ferdinand and Isabella, both greatly attached to the fine arts, the pointed style gave way to the architecture then in esteem in Italy; and Giovanni de Olotzaga, a native of Biscay, is, we believe, entitled to the merit of having first introduced it in the great college of Santa Croce at Valladolid, which was commenced in 1480, and finished in 1492. About the same period appeared Pietro de Gumiel, supposed to have been the architect of Santa Engracia at Saragossa; but known as the artist who designed the college of Alcala, a splendid building in a mixed and impure style. In this the orders were employed. The edifice consists of three courts: the first Doric, with an arcade and two orders above, in the lower whereof the Doric was repeated, and the upper was Ionic; the second court has thirty-two Composite columns, with arcades; and the third is designed with thirty-six Ionic columns, beyond which is the theatre. The church is of the Ionic order, and contains the monument of Cardinal Ximenes, the founder, considered one of the finest in Spain. The names of Giovanni, Alonso, and Fra Giovanni d'Escobado continue in their works the history of the art in Spain, wherein a style between the pointed and Italian prevailed during the greater part of the reign of Charles V. Giovanni Gil de Hontanon, at the end of the 15th century, appears in Spain as an architect of much celebrity. He made a design for the cathedral at Salamanca, which was submitted to the judgment of four of the then most eminent architects of the country,-Alonzo de Cobarrubias the architect of the church at Toledo; Mastro Filippo of that of Seville; Giovanni di Badajos of that of Burgos; and Giovanni Balleso, by whom Hontanon's design was approved and commended. This church is 378 ft. long, and has a nave and two series of aisles on each side. The nave is 130 ft. high, and 50 ft. wide. Rodrigo Gil, son of the above-named architect, had the execution of this church, which commenced in 1513. It was probably this Rodrigo who, in 1525, erected the church of Segovia, very similar to that of Salamanca, except that it is more simple, and in a purer style. The cathedral of Segovia, equal in size and grandeur to those of Toledo and Seville, was, after 1577, carried on by Francesco de Campo Aguero, who died in 1660; to whom succeeded Biadero, who died in 1678. Respecting Hontanon, Don Ant. Ponz observes, in the 10th volume of his Travels in Spain, that he must have been a clever architect, and well acquainted with the Greek and styles, which in his time were beginning to revive; but that, like many other artists. obliged in some measure to humour the taste of those who employed him: he adopted the Gothic style, without the ornaments and details. The efforts of the s of this period were not confined altogether to church building; for in 1552 e Uria constructed a bridge at Almaraz over the Tagus, which may vie with the raordinary works of that class. Two large pointed arches form the bridge, which long, 25 ft. wide, and 134 ft. high. The opening of one of the arches is 150 ft., he other 119 ft. The piers are lofty towers, that in the centre standing on a high An inscription gives the date of erection 1552, and imports that it was constructed pense of the city of Placentia. Alonzo de Cobarrubias, the architect of the church of Toledo, seems to have used Gothic sort of style, though when he flourished the Roman orders had become and used. This Alonzo was in considerable employ, as was his assistant, Diego ho built the church at Granada, with the monastery and church of San Girolamo ity. This cathedral has a nave and two aisles; and in it the Corinthian order, defective in height, is used. The cupola is well designed. Both Siloe and his Daded their buildings with sculptures to excess, from a seeming notion that beauty ness were the same or inseparable. Alonzo Berruguette was another architect of century who was deservedly employed. He went to Italy in 1500, there to is studies in the arts of painting and sculpture as well as architecture, and was nce when Michael Angelo and Leonardo da Vinci exhibited their cartoons. the architect of Charles V.; and it is supposed that he designed the palace at begun by Henry II., continued by Henry III., and splendidly rebuilt by V., but no longer in existence. Berruguette erected the gate of San Martino, the principal one at Toledo. It is of the Doric order, with the royal arms on ior, and a statue of Santa Leocadia in the interior. There are great simplicity ance in the composition of this work. The palace of Alcala, the residence of the op of Toledo, is attributed to him; a building not wanting in magnificence, lefective in its detail. A great portion of the cathedral of Cuença is said to be guette; but not the façade, which was erected in 1699 by Guiseppe Arroyo, and is continued by Luigi Arriaga. There is considerable effect about the cloister, well and ingeniously decorated. This architect, it is thought, had some part in the hich was rebuilt in 1547; where are still allowed to remain,-notwithstanding the by Philip II. of the miserable eastern and western façades—the porticoes of Ionic with their low stone arches. Though the windows are greatly too far apart, and in the lower story, the stairs difficult of ascent, yet, upon the whole, the edifice arranged or executed. At the period whereof we here speak there was a propassion among the Spaniards for large screens and altars in the churches; in these of Berruguette was most conspicuous. In the use of the orders, which he fully od, he was remarkably fond of employing them over one another. The cathedral e was principally rebuilt by Ferdinando Ruiz, who was much engaged in the city, cially on enlarging or raising the well-known tower called the Giralda. This edifice was begun in the 11th century, the original idea of it being given by the Geber, a native of Seville, to whom the invention of algebra is attributed; and design of two other similar towers, one in Morocco, and the other at Rabata. er of which we are now speaking was at first 250 ft. high, and 50 ft. wide, and out diminution as it rose. The walls are 8 ft. thick of squared stones from the the pavement; the rest for 87 ft. is of brick. In the centre of this tower is a one, the interval between the two towers being 23 ft., which serves for the ascent, ■nvenient that two persons abreast can mount it on horseback. The central tower diminish; but as the edifice rises in height the walls gather over, so as to allow ge of only one person. Upon the Moors of Seville negotiating their surrender, he conditions of it was, that this tower should not be destroyed; to which Don o, the eldest son of the king, answered, that if a portion of it were touched, not Seville should survive. In the earthquake of 1395 it was partially injured, and in the state of misfortune that then occurred until 1.568, when, by the authorities, do Ruiz received the commission to raise it 100 ft. higher. This height he nto three parts, crowning it with a small cupola or lantern: the first division of ion is of equal thickness with the tower on a plinth, whence six pilasters rise on de, between which are five windows, over which is an entablature surmounted by les; the second division is lower, with the same ornament; and the third is 1 with pilasters, over which the cupola rises, crowned with a bronze statue of lgarly called "La Giralda.” Ruiz by this work augmented his fame; and notding the earthquakes which have since occurred, it has, fortunately enough, been We have, however, to apologise to our readers for this, which is anecdote, and in order to be placed here, because partly connected with a period we have long Pictorially speaking, the tower of the Giralda is a splendid object, and the H. apology was, perhaps, unnecessary. The age of Charles V. in Spain was Augustan for its architecture. By his mandate the palace was raised at Granada, a work of Machuca, another architect of this period. The principal façade is rustic, with three large gates, and eight Doric columns on pedestals sculptured with historical bassi-rilievi. The second story is Ionic with eight columns, over which are pilasters. The internal vestibule is on a circular plan, with a portico and gallery on columns of the same order. Milizia, from whom we have extracted all our notices on the architecture of Spain in this age, regrets that the arches spring from the columns. Though we cannot commend such a practice, we should be sorry, in certain cases, to see a veto put upon it; because the practice is occasionally compatible with fine effect. 369. Towards the end of the sixteenth century appears in Spain an artist, by name Domenico Testocopoli, by birth a Grecian, and a disciple of Tiziano Vecelli. He became, under his master, a good painter; but is known in Spain rather as a celebrated architect in his day. At Madrid, and in Toledo, he executed many works of merit; but his grand work was the church and monastery of the Bernardine monks of San Dominico di Silos, in which he employed his talents in architecture, painting, and sculpture, the whole being from his hand. 370. Garzia d'Emere and Bartolomeo di Bustamente, the latter especially, would require an extended notice in the history of the art in Spain, if our limits permitted us to enter on their merits. The latter was the architect of the hospital of San Giovanni Battista, founded by its archbishop in 1545, near Toledo. We should continue the account if works existed from which a feature different from the contemporaneous works in the rest of Europe could be extracted; but the fact is, that the progress of the art has already been told in other countries, and its success in Spain would be but a repetition in minor degree of what has already been said. Still we consider some notice must be taken of Giovanbatista of Toledo, who died in 1567, an architect and sculptor of surpassing merit ; and as he was the architect who gave the designs for the façade of the Escurial, we shall not apologise for transcribing the account of him given by Milizia. 371. Having studied at Rome, he was invited to Naples by Don Pietro di Toledo, then viceroy there, who employed him as architect to the Emperor Charles V. in many important works in that city, whence he was called by Philip II. to become architect of all the royal works in Spain, and especially of the Escurial, which that monarch was anxious to erect in the most magnificent style. For this purpose he left Naples, and in 1563 commenced, upon his own design, the Escurial, which he continued to superintend till his death in 1567. In this great undertaking he was succeeded by Giovanni d'Herrera, his pupil, who finished it. Those, therefore, says the author whom we quote, that attribute this work to Luigi de Foix, to Bramante, to Vignola, and other architects who may have given designs for it, are unacquainted with the subject. The wonders related of the Escurial, as to the number of its doors and windows, are not tales to be here recounted; and the attempt, indeed, at exaggeration is vastly silly, because it is on so grand a scale that the simple truth imparts quite sufficient knowledge for conveying an idea of its splendour. The motives of Philip II. in founding this structure were twofold, — first, the injunction of his predecessor Charles V., who was desirous of constructing a tomb for the royal family of Spain; and secondly, of erecting an edifice of colossal dimensions to commemorate the famous victory of S. Quintin, achieved on the festival of San Lorenzo, the saint to whose interposition the king attributed his success. The situation chosen to receive it was beautiful. It is at the distance of a few miles from Madrid, at the foot of the Carpentani mountains, by which the two Castiles are divided. The plan of the edifice is said to resemble a gridiron. the instrument of martyrdom of Saint Lawrence, of which the handle is the projection in the eastern façade; we confess, however, we have some difficulty in tracing the resemblance. It is divided internally into fifteen courts, varying considerably in size; many of them are decorated with porticoes and galleries, and contain in all upwards of eighty fountains. The materials are granite very well wrought; the roofs partly covered with lead and partly with slate. The cupola of the church is stone. The four angles of the main plan are distinguished by towers rising four stories, besides those in the roofs, above the general fronts; besides which there are four others flanking the cupola. Parts of the building are in much better taste than others; but such an enormous pile of building cannot be otherwise than imposing, more especially, too, if there be anything like symmetry and regularity in the parts. Towards the west the principal façade is 740 feet long and 60 feet in height. The towers at the angles just mentioned rise to the height of 200 feet. This façade, like the others, has five stories of windows, which necessarily of themselves, from the way in which they are arranged, have the effect of cutting it up into minute divisions. The central compartment of it is 140 feet in length, and consists of two orders of half columns; the lower has eight semi-columns, which are Doric standing on a plinth, and in the central intercolumniation is the door; the other intercolumniations are filled with niches and windows in three stories. The upper order consists of four Ionic columns on pedestals, and is surmounted by a pediment. This upper 3 CHAP II. 161 order has two stories of niches in its intercolumniations, in the upper central one whereof The two minor doors in this façade are also made is placed the statue of St. Lawrence. features in the design. The façade towards the east has the projecting handle of the gridiron to which we have alluded, in which part is contained the palace; and westward of it the great chapel or church, with its cupola rising above the mass, to complete the composition. Towards the south the length is 580 ft., similar to the length on the north. On entering from the central gate of the western façade, the monastery is divided from the college by a large vestibule, from which three large arched openings lead into the king's court: this is 230 ft. long, and 136 ft. wide, surrounded by buildings of five stories, and ornamented with pilasters. At the eastern end of this court is the entrance to the church, over whose vestibule or pronaos are the libraries. To it a flight of seven steps crosses the whole width of the court; and from the landing rises a Doric arcaded porch of five openings, three whereof belong to the central compartment and lead to the church, the other two leading to the monastery and the college. Behind the porch the façade of the church rises, and is flanked by two towers, which respectively belong to the monastery and college, and are The interior of the church is Doric, and is in Its whole length ornamented above the general height of the buildings of the court with two orders of pilasters, being terminated by small cupolas. The nave is 53 ft. and the aisles are 30 ft. wide. From the intersection of the nave and transepts plan a Greek cross. is 364 ft., its width 230, and height 170. In point of taste the cupola rises, 66 ft. in diameter, and 330 ft. in height from the pavement to the cross. Its exterior is composed with a square tambour or drum, if it may be so called, from which The choir is only 30 ft. high, and its length but 60 ft. the order rises. and dimensions, the church is inferior to several in other parts of Europe. The presThe staircase which leads to the Pantheon, and bytery, we should have stated, is raised, so as to form almost another church, and seemingly without relation to the principal one. which possesses considerable magnificence, is placed between the church and the antesacristy we are not aware why this name has been given to the sepulchre of the kings of Spain. It is nearly under the high altar. The chamber appropriated to the reception of the kings is 36 ft. diameter, and 38 ft. in height, richly encrusted with various marbles and metals, and ornamented with sixteen double Corinthian pilasters on pedestals, arranged octagonally; and between them are recesses, with the sarcophagi, amounting to twenty-six, that is, four in each of six sides, and two over the entrance which faces the altar of the ReThis is a fair specimen of the style which prevailed in Spain under the reigns surrection. of Philip IV. and Charles II. The college, the seminary, and the royal palace occupy the rest of the building. In 1773, many additions were made to the buildings about the Escurial for the Infants Don Antonio and Don Gabriele, by Villaneuva, an Italian architect, and by them the palace was much improved. Giovanni d'Herrera, who died in 1597, besides his employment at the building just described, contributed greatly to the advancement of the art by the execution of the many commissions with which he was entrusted. The bridge a work which, though far from pure, exhibits of Segovia, at Madrid, is by him; as is the royal pleasure-house at Aranjuez, begun under Philip II. and finished by Charles III., great architectural ability. His successor at the Escurial was Francesco de Mora, by whom, at Madrid, is the Palace de los Consejos, the most splendid edifice which that Instead of a central doorway, it has two at its flanks, of the Doric order, capital can boast. In the beginning of the seventeenth century, the great with appropriate decorations. This architect built at Alcala the church and square of Madrid was erected after the designs of Giovanni Gomez de Mora, and is adnirable for its grandeur and symmetry. college of the Jesuits, which, Milizia says, is a magnificent and well-proportioned edifice. It is of two orders, and the material employed in the façade is granite. The royal convent of the Augustins, at Madrid, is also attributed to him. 372. In the beginning of the eighteenth century, Filippo Ivara, a native of Messina, had very great employ, we might almost say throughout Europe. He became the pupil of Fontana, and afterwards, on his visiting Spain, seems to have established a school there. He built the façade of the royal palace of St. Ildefonso, looking towards the gardens. The work was afterwards intrusted to Sacchetti. I vara died in 1735, at Madrid, whither he had been invited by Philip V. to rebuild the Palace, which had been consumed by fire. a pupil of Ivara. It is on a very large scale, and was most solidly constructed. The mediaval works have been lately described by Mr. G. E. Street, in Some Account M SECT. XX. RUSSIAN ARCHITECTURE. 374. WE scarcely know whether we are justified in making a short section with this heading, inasmuch as there is not known to us, up to the end of the eighteenth century, the name of a single Russian architect. English, French, Italian, and German artists have been employed in the decoration of the city of Petersburg, though we believe that the nation is now beginning to produce persons capable of conducting their public works. Russia has received all its improvement from abroad, and has used every exertion to communicate it to an uncivilised people. 375. The ecclesiastical architecture of Russia is of course coeval with the introduction of Christianity into the country, which was not earlier than the time of Vladimir the Great, although the Princess Olga had been baptized at Constantinople as early as the year 964. Vladimir, to display his zeal in behalf of Christianity, had a church, supposed to be the first built by him, erected at Cherson; a year after which the church of St. Basil, which, as well as the first named, was of timber, was erected under his command. This prince also built a church at Kief, where, it is said, there were already at the time 500 churches. After Vladimir, Prince Yaroslaf appears to have bestowed great attention on the erection of ecclesiastical edifices. At Kief he founded a church, dedicated to St. Sophia, and at Novogorod another to the same saint: these partly exist in the present day. By him also were reared the convents of St. George and St. Irene. The celebrated convent of Petchorsky, at Kief, was erected in 1075, subsequent to which period the Russian metropolitans continued subject to those of Constantinople till the capture of that city by Mahomet the Second. Between this last capital and Kief the bonds of amity of their rulers were drawn closer by many intermarriages; but in the year 1124 a fire desolated the latter city, which must have risen into great importance, inasmuch as 600 churches and monasteries were destroyed in the conflagration. Afterwards, again, in the civil war under Yisaslaf, Kief was taken and fired; a calamity to which it was again subject at the same period that Constantinople was taken by the Venetians. After this Kief never again recovered its ancient magnificence. In 1154, at which period Moscow is first mentioned in history, it was but an insignificant village. It received great additions under Daniel of Moscow; and in 1304, under John Danielowitz, it became the capital of the empire. On the 4th of August, 1326, the first stone was laid of a church in the Kremlin there in honour of the Assumption of the Virgin. The palace of the Kremlin was a timber structure until the reign of Deinetri Donskoi, when it was reconstructed of stone. On the capture of Constantinople by Mahomet the Second, the Russian church ceased to be dependent on that of Constantinople. The palace of the Kremlin, known by the name of the granite palace, rose in 1487; and, in twelve years afterwards, the Belvedere palace was raised. Ivan IV., whose sway was of extended duration, was a great patron of the arts; his decease took place circa 1584. He renewed the laws relative to the paintings in the new churches, whence arises their so lose resemblance to each other that it is difficult to judge of the epochs of their execution. The celebrated clock tower Ivan Valiki, at the Kremlin, was erected by the Czar Boris, in 1600, at which time Moscow contained 400 churches, whereof 35 stood in the Kremlin alone. After the time of Peter the Great, a change of style was introduced, (1696-1725). 376. The Church of the Assumption above mentioned, as respects the plan, is an oblong square divided; the vaulting whereof is supported by six columns in the interior. Though at the first glance it be not perceived, the arrangement of the cupolas soon points to the form of a Greek cross. In the earlier churches the plan was a square, with a porch in front of it; but, in the Church of the Assumption, the porch is a portion of the church, the arches of the cupolas being placed in the same way as if the church were of the ancient form. The six columns just mentioned divide the church into four parts, - from east to west, and then from north to south. At the eastern sides are three apsides, divided by the width of a column, the middle one being of larger dimensions than the other two; an arrangement which prevails in most of the Greek churches. The apsides contain altars, which are frequent, except in the small chapels. The altar in the Greek church is not exposed to public view; it is concealed or covered by the iconostasis (image-bearer), a very large screen, which, from occupying the whole width of the church, divides it into two parts. This screen has a central principal and two side smaller doors; behind which latter, on each side, stands a second and smaller iconostasis, of the width only of the smaller apsis, but whose plan with three doors and an altar behind is similar to the great one. This was the distribution in the early churches; but, in the more modern ones, there are, at nearly the extremity of the edifice, three distinct iconostases. The place for the choristers is on each side in front of the iconostasis, between its principal and side doors. The principal cupola rises in front of the iconostasis; and, in cathedral churches, at the foot of the apsis on the left a canopy is placed for the emperor, opposite whereto is one for the metropolitan. |