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Sir Christopher Wren MUAS 16,147
Christopher Wren first major Baroque architect in Britain a polymath with an intellectual approach easy mastery as opposed to virtuosity rationality and good taste
EARLY EXPERIMENTS
Sheldonian Theatre, Oxford, by Christopher Wren, 1664-9: interior view; roof truss
Whinney, Wren, p 20; Downes, Architecture of Wren, pl 53
Sheldonian Theatre, Oxford, from the north Geoffrey Beard, The Work of Christopher Wren (London 1982), pl 61; John Summerson, Architecture in Britain 1530 to 1830, (4th ed, Harmondsworth [Middlesex] 1963 [1953]), pl 75B
Sheldonian Theatre, Oxford, South front Miles Lewis; Summerson, Architecture in Britain , pl 75A
Pembroke College Chapel, Cambridge, by Christopher Wren, 1663-5
Miles Lewis
St Paul's Cathedral, with Jones’s alterations Summerson, Architecture in Britain, pl 47(B)
Old St Paul's, proposal for the addition of a dome, by Wren, 1666, dome in elevation & section Downes, Architecture of Wren, pls 20, 21
Wren's plan for London, 1666, with churches shaded black Downes, Architecture of Wren, p 50, fig 5
ST PAUL'S CATHEDRAL
St Paul's Cathedral: detail of the London plan, c 1666 Beard, Work of Wren, pl 80
St Paul's Cathedral: first model design, c 1669: part plan & section Downes, Architecture of Wren, p 53, fig 6
St Paul's Cathedral: Greek cross, design c 1672-3 plan & elevation Downes, Architecture of Wren, p 70; Beard, Work of Wren, pl 34
St Paul's Cathedral plans Greek cross, c 1672; Great Model, c 1673-4 Downes, Architecture of Wren, p 70
St Paul's: the Great Model, 1673 MUAS 4,493
St Paul's: plans by Wren Downes, Christopher Wren, pp 165-7
St Paul's, the Warrant Design, 1675: section & plan
Downes, Architecture of Wren, pl 57, p 70
Ely Cathedral, c1080-1106, crossing rebuilt after 1332: south transept from the octagon
Elfincolor, 591B4
St Paul's, the Warrant Design, 1675 west & south elevations Beard, Work of Wren, pl 90; Downes, Architecture of Wren, pl 56
St Paul's Cathedral, London, by Sir Christopher Wren, as designed, 1675: south elevation Downes, Architecture of Wren, pl 58.
St Paul's Cathedral, London, as designed by Wren, 1675, section Downes, Architecture of Wren, pl 59
St Paul's, plan as executed, 1675-1710 Downes, Architecture of Wren, pl 70
St Paul's: section through choir & view of buttresses Whinney, Wren, p 98; Beard, Work of Wren, pl 101
St Paul's, section though dome, looking east
Whinney, Wren, p 120
dome of St Paul's, as built by Wren, 1675-1710 section & plan of carpentry, axonometric section Francis Price, The British Carpenter (London 1753), facing p 30 Margaret Whinney, Wren (London 1971), p 121
Baptistery, Pisa: original and present elevations & sections E H Swift, Roman Sources of Christian Art (New York 1951), after Rouhault de Fleury, Les Monuments du Pise
St Paul's, overall view of the ultimate design MUAS 14,988
St Paul's, west elevation
Campbell, Vitruvius Britannicus
St Paul's west front, engraved view by Henry Hulsborgh, 1713, and detail of the west towers as built Beard, Work of Wren, pl 107; MUAS 14,986
west towers of St Paul’s, London Sant' Agnese in Piazza Navona, Rome
MUAS 14,986, 13,504
St Paul's Catheral, ondon,bny Christopher Wren]
Dôme des Invalides, Paris, by Jules Hardouin-Mansart, 1680-1:
St Paul's, view from the south-east MUAS 24,420
St Paul's, detail of the south side MUAS 24,422
Sta Maria della Pace, Rome, by Pietro da Cortona, 1656-7: contemporary view Varriano, Italian Baroque and Rococo, p 116
St Paul's, nave, looking east ; S Giorgio Maggiore, Venice, Andrea Palladio, 1565-80 Elfincolor, 20A2 (192) ; Miles Lewis
St Paul's, the crossing, looking south-west
Elfincolor, 20A4 (214); Downes, Architecture of Wren, pl 142
SECULAR WORKS
Trinity College Library, Cambridge, by Wren, 1676-84: view from Neville's Court Elfincolor, 570G1
Trinity Library: original drawings by Wren Downes, Christopher Wren, p 26
Trinity Library: diagram of floor construction Downes, Christopher Wren, p 32
Trinity Library interior Downes, Christopher Wren, p 32
Trinity Library: rear view Miles Lewis
Trinity Library from the Cam Elfincolor, 570G3
Greenwich Hospital: Wren's scheme of 1694: elevation MUAS 6,134
Greenwich Hospital first plan Whinney, Wren, p 189
Greenwich Hospital first design, perspective view Margaret Richardson, John Soane: Connoisseur and Collector (London 1995), no 10
Greenwich Hospital, scheme as built, 1696-1715: perspective view Colen Campbell, Vitruvius Britannicus, III, pp 3-4
Greenwich Hospital: aerial view Roy Strong, Royal Gardens (London 1992), p 179
Greenwich Hospital: plan Summerson, Architecture in Britain, p 174
Greenwich Hospital: modern view from the river MUAS 4,495
Greenwich Hospital:
view within the forecourt the eastern dome and screen
Beard, Work of Wren, pl 67, replacing Downes, Christopher Wren, p 116; Downes, Christopher Wren, p 116
THE CITY CHURCHES
some of the City churches of London by Christopher Wren, late C17th Downes, Christopher Wren, pp 144-5
more of the City churches of London by Christopher Wren, late C17th Whinney, Wren, pp 50-51
St Stephen, Walbrook, by Wren, 1672-9 isometric diagram & plan
MUAS 25,053, 9,835
St Stephen, Walbrook: interiors looking east & west MUAS 2,123, 4,488
St Stephen, Walbrook: the dome MUAS 24,413
St Mildred, Bread Street, begun 1677, destroyed 1941 interior & plan
Whinney, Wren, pp 50-51; MUAS 10,961
St Lawrence, Jewry, 1671-87: MUAS 2,206
St Bride, Fleet Street, 1671-8 Miles Lewis; Country Life, CXXIII, 3182 (9 January 1958), p 50
St Bride, Fleet Street; St James, Piccadilly, 1676-84 Country Life, CXXIII, 3182 (9 January 1958), p 50; MUAS 4,436
St James, Piccadilly, 1676-84 Miles Lewis; MUAS 4,436
St Clement Danes, Strand, 1680-2 Miles Lewis; Whinney, Wren, p 50
St Clement Danes, north side Miles Lewis
St Clement Danes, from the west, with Gibbs's steeple drawing by J Coney, for the Architectural Series of London Churches, 1818; MUAS 24,409
towers and steeples by Wren MUAS 2,757
Tom Tower, Christ Church College, Oxford, 1682: from the west & the east Miles Lewis
St Mary, Aldermary, Queen Victoria Street, London, by Wren, 1681-2; St Mary Somerset, London, by Wren, 1686-95, surviving tower MUAS 24,419; 4,322
St Benet, Paul's Wharf, 1677-83; St Andrew-by-the-Wardrobe, 1685-93 Downes, Architecture of Wren, pl 99; MUAS 4,323
St Martin Ludgate, Ludgate Hill, by Wren, 1677-84: elevation Beard, Work of Wren, pl 171; Miles Lewis
St Augustine, Watling Street, by Wren, 1680-3
Miles Lewis
St Bride, Fleet Street, steeple, 1701-3 Miles Lewis; Jeffery, The City Churches, p 224, fig 9
St Charles Borromeo, Antwerp, probably by Pieter Huyssens, 1620: steeple; St Mary-leBow, steeple as first proposed (apparently before 1677; St Magnus Martyr, by Wren, completed 1705 Whinney, Wren, p 79; Jeffery, The City Churches, p 39, fig 10; Amery, Wren's London, p 343
St Mary-le-Bow, Cheapside, by Wren, steeple 1678-80 elevation and section of steeple; view; detail of steeple Colen Campbell, Vitruvius Britannicus, II, p 26; Beard, Work of Wren, pl 139; MUAS 24,417
St Mary-le-Bow doorway; design by François Mansart for a doorway for the Hôtel de Conti, Paris, after 1648 Whinney, Wren, p 71
St Vedast, Foster Lane, 1670-3: steeple 1694-7 Miles Lewis Downes, Christopher Wren, p 174
