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256 Barrozzi, Giacomo. See Vignola.

Beltrami, Luca, Il Pantheon, 891.

Benedict XIV, Pope, his inquiries as to the safety of the dome of St. Peter's, 60.

Bernini, Wren's meeting with him at Paris, 233.

Berty, Adolphe, Les Grands Architectes Français de la Renaissance, 1941, 2001; quoted on Lescot, 194, 1961; quoted on De l'Orme, 2001.

Bettini, Giovanni, his work on the church of Santa Maria Novella, Florence, 35.

Blind arcade, forms proper decoration for mediæval interiors, 29.

Bloomfield, Reginald, A History of Renaissance Architecture in England, 218, 2322; quoted on Inigo Jones, 232.

Bologna, Palazzo Bevilacqua, 165; window openings of mediæval form without central shaft, 165. Bourges, house of Jacques Coeur, a forerunner of the Renaissance châteaux, 180.

Bramante, his birth and early work, 44; the Tempietto of San Pietro in Montorio, 44-46 (cut), 239; his work on St. Peter's, Rome, 47-53 (cuts), 63, 64, 70, 236; his use of the Pantheon and Basilica of Maxentius as models, 49-52 (cuts); alteration of his scheme by others, 493, 53-55, 64, 70; weakness of his scheme, 52; accused of poor workmanship, 64; ch. of Santa Maria della Consolazione at Todi, 74-77 (cuts); his work on the cathedral of Como, 144; ch. of Santa Maria delle Grazie, Milan, 140, 142; ch. of San Satiro, Milan, 138 (cut); cloister of Santa Maria della Pace, Rome, 119; Palazzo Cancelleria, Rome, 112-114 (cut).

Brescia, Palazzo Comunale, 163, of the broletto type, 163, window openings, 164; Palazzo Martinengo, peculiar and meaningless style of window opening, 166 (cut); Palazzo Municipale, leafage of capitals, 176 (cut).

Brunelleschi, the dome of Florence cathedral, 10-25, 22, 48, 50, 54, 55; his own account of the dome quoted, 181, 221; his great ability, 21; his scaffolding, 213; why he led the way in a wrong direction, 22, 25, 63; character of his work in general, 26; his use of the orders, 26; the chapel of the Pazzi, Florence, 26-32 (cuts), 175; ch. of San Lorenzo, Florence, 33; ch. of Santo Spirito, Florence, 33; the Pitti palace, Florence, 106; Palazzo Pazzi or the Quaratesi, Florence, 106; leafage of capital, 17s (cut).

Bullant, Reigle Géneralle de Architecture, 1921; his reproduction of the order of a Roman temple in the portico of the château of Écouen, 192.

Buttresses, in support of domes, 10, 53; of St. Peter's, Rome, 53 (cut), 55, 56, 59; of a circular Gothic vault, 571; concealing of, in St. Paul's, London, 244, 245 (cut).

Byzantine architecture, 6, 7; term loosely applied, 291; the dome on pendentives is the distinguishing structural feature of, 291; their domes were properly constructed, 63; scheme prevails in Renaissance architecture, 74.

Caen, church of St. Pierre, exterior of apse with Lombard Renaissance details applied to a Flamboyant structural scheme, 214.

Cambridge, England, Caius College, gate of honor, neo-classic features, 223.

Carving, architectural, of the Renaissance, 167-178 (cuts):
 * Sculpture of the human figure on Renaissance buildings has little proper architectural character, 167.


 * Relief carving, 167-178 (cuts); pictorial treatment of, 158; a great deal is in close imitation of Roman models, 167 (cut), 171, 172; the best is superior to that of ancient Rome, 168, 170, 176; conventionalization of forms, 169 (plate and cut); formal convolutions of, 170, 171; the finish, in many cases, mere surface smoothing, 170, 171; two schemes which are used with wearisome repetition, 171; arrangement of composition and treatment of details often artificial and inorganic, 172 (cut), 173, (cuts); the finest forms those of foliation, 170, 174; leafage of capitals, 175-178 (cuts); artificial convention of the ridges which mark the subdivisions of the leaf surface, 176 (cuts); the grotesque is uniformly weak and characterless, 176-178 (cuts); Putti are without particular merit as design, 178.

Casati, I Capi d' Arte di Bramante da Urbino nel Milanese, 1381, 1421.

Cecchini, Opinione Intorno lo Stato dellagran Cupola del Duomo di Firenze, 241; cited on the stability of the dome of Florence cathedral, 238, 241.

Celled vault, a Gothic circular, 20, 21; nature of its construction, 56-59 (cuts).

Chains, binding, 12, 22, 74; of the dome of Florence cathedral, 19, 241; of St. Peter's, Rome, 59, 60.

Chambers, Sir William, Treatise on the Decorative Part of Civil Architecture, 1341

Chimney-stacks in shape of Doric columns in Elizabethan houses, 217 (cut), 223.