A Dictionary of Architecture and Building Volume 2; Biographical, Historical, and Descriptive. Jr. Russell Sturgis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1901 Excerpt: ... equal in richness and beauty to the Palazzo Marini at Milan, by the same architect, though none has a court to rival that of the University, yet this group of palaces, as a whole, not only puts Alessi at the head of the architects who have embellished Genoa, but ranks high among the most noteworthy of Italy. They with the others, by whomsoever designed, have certain features in common. The artists in general have known how to adapt themselves to the narrow streets of Genoa. The facades have few projections, none that hinder the eye from taking in the whole, a reserve that has the additional advantage of giving its due importance to the cornice, --above which is no attic. The vestibules are of a beauty and variety not to be equalled elsewhere, and occasionally the changing levels of the ground have stimulated the architects to procure effects of rare picturesqueness. In no other city are there so many noble staircases as in Genoa, and they are usually so arranged (not only in Genoa, but throughout Liguria) that they form an important feature in the view of the court or vestibule obtained from the doorway. The facades were not always ornamented with rustication or with pilasters or sculpture, but were frequently covered with painting of figures as well as of architectural details. The painted architecture is to this day a peculiarity of the Genoese coast. Alessi was also the author of a large number of villas in and about Genoa, --Villa Pallavicini delle Peschiere, V. Spinola, V. Lercari, V. Doria, V. Grimaldi, and V. Scassi (these last five at Sampierdarena),1 V. Cambiaso, at San Francesco d' Albaro, and, in the same suburb of Genoa, the Villa Paradiso by Ceresola. The 1 Or San Pier d' Arena, a suburb of Genoa. cupola of the cathedral is also his, and S. Mari...
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