Architecture between Reformation and Counter-Reformation: the Roman churches new typologies and the precedents of Il Gesù project

• Grant number: 16/06680-1
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Master
• Start date: June 01, 2016
• End date: May 31, 2018
• Field of knowledge: Applied Social Sciences - Architecture and Town Planning - Fundamentals of Architecture and Urbanism
• Principal Investigator: Andrea Buchidid Loewen
• Grantee: Marina Luna Castor de Lima
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Arquitetura e Urbanismo (FAU). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil

Abstract

While in Middle Ages, churches were conceived predominantly in a Latin Cross plan, the Renaissance brought the main treaties, such as the one from Leon Battista Alberti (1452) and the other from Sebatiano Serlio (book V, 1547), which praise the perfection of Circular plan. It has been consensus in historiography that the return of Basilical forms, as advocated by the Council of Trent, is inaugurated with the construction of Il Gesù (1568).This master dissertation project, which aims to analyze the set of Roman churches and oratories built in longitudinal plan after de Sack of Rome in 1527, and in the decades which preceded Vignola's project to the Jesuit House Church, is proposed to mitigate such myth and to investigate the notions and principles that guided the construction of such worship buildings.

Academic Publications

(References retrieved automatically from State of São Paulo Research Institutions)

LIMA, Marina Luna Castor de. Dado não fornecido pelo autor.. 2018. Master's Dissertation - Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Faculdade de Arquitetura e Urbanismo (FAU/SBI) São Paulo.