Name: Xiaoyu Zeng
ARCH161 – M21 LEC(2587)
Library of S. Marco,
Venice Italy, 1560
Doric order
Architect(s): Jacopo Sansovino, Vincenzo Scamozzi
[Introduction]
St. Mark’s Library is a sixteenth century building that
is located in San Marco plaza of Venice. It is a masterpiece of the famous architect
sausovino left in Venice, so that the name of library used his name to name it.
He chose a narrow area to build it before people started to build it. He also
adopted a double-layer structure that was slightly lower height. This long
arcade with the classical columns looked concise and distant, and it also became
a public area about leisure shade now.
[Construction]
The whole building is 84meters and it has 21 rooms that
were divided into two layers. A layers of elevation are arcade. Stores are
behind it. The library is on the second floor and people can reach from the
central bay by stairs. The façade of column wall is circular wall, especially
the column in second floor is Rome ionic type. A wall is close to the 1/2 width
of wall column height and it also decorated with reliefs and vent. Arcade
shoulder is decorated with embossed characters. The railing of stone on the
roof top figure statue and the four corners become the obelisk. This library is
thought to be the most magnificent project during the period of Renaissance
architecture. Also, Plazza San Marco is known as the “heart of Venice”.
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