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Christopher Wren
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Sir Christopher WrenSir Christopher WrenMUAS 16,147MUAS 16,147
Christopher Wrenfirst major Baroque architect in Britain
a polymath with an intellectual approacheasy mastery as opposed to virtuosity
rationality and good taste
EARLY EXPERIMENTSEARLY EXPERIMENTS
SheldonianTheatre, 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 northGeoffrey 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 frontMiles 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 alterationsSummerson, 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 blackDownes, Architecture of Wren, p 50, fig 5
ST PAUL'S CATHEDRALST PAUL'S CATHEDRAL
St Paul's Cathedral: detail of the London plan, c 1666Beard, Work of Wren, pl 80
St Paul's Cathedral: first model design, c 1669: part plan & sectionDownes, Architecture of Wren, p 53, fig 6
St Paul's Cathedral: Greek cross, design c 1672-3plan & elevation
Downes, Architecture of Wren, p 70; Beard, Work of Wren, pl 34
St Paul's Cathedral plansGreek cross, c 1672; Great Model, c 1673-4
Downes, Architecture of Wren, p 70
St Paul's: the Great Model, 1673MUAS 4,493
St Paul's: plans by WrenDownes, 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, 1675west & 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, sectionDownes, Architecture of Wren, pl 59
St Paul's, plan as executed, 1675-1710Downes, Architecture of Wren, pl 70
St Paul's: section through choir & view of buttressesWhinney, 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, 1675-1710section & plan of carpentry, axonometric section
Francis Price, The British Carpenter (London 1753), facing p 30Margaret Whinney, Wren (London 1971), p 121
Baptistery, Pisa: original and present elevations & sectionsE 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 designMUAS 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' Agnesein 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-eastMUAS 24,420
St Paul's, detail of the south sideMUAS 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 WORKSSECULAR WORKS
Trinity College Library, Cambridge, by Wren, 1676-84: view from Neville's Court
Elfincolor, 570G1
Trinity Library: original drawings by WrenDownes, Christopher Wren, p 26
Trinity Library: diagram of floor constructionDownes, Christopher Wren, p 32
Trinity Libraryinterior
Downes, Christopher Wren, p 32
Trinity Library: rear viewMiles Lewis
Trinity Library from the CamElfincolor, 570G3
Greenwich Hospital: Wren's scheme of 1694: elevationMUAS 6,134
Greenwich Hospitalfirst plan
Whinney, Wren, p 189
Greenwich Hospital first design, perspective viewMargaret Richardson, John Soane: Connoisseur and Collector (London 1995), no 10
Greenwich Hospital, scheme as built, 1696-1715: perspective viewColen Campbell, Vitruvius Britannicus, III, pp 3-4
Greenwich Hospital: aerial viewRoy Strong, Royal Gardens (London 1992), p 179
Greenwich Hospital: planSummerson, Architecture in Britain, p 174
Greenwich Hospital: modern view from the riverMUAS 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 CHURCHESTHE CITY CHURCHES
some of the City churches of London by Christopher Wren, late C17thDownes, Christopher Wren, pp 144-5
more of the City churches of London by Christopher Wren, late C17thWhinney, 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 & westMUAS 2,123, 4,488
St Stephen, Walbrook: the domeMUAS 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, 1676-84Country Life, CXXIII, 3182 (9 January 1958), p 50; MUAS 4,436
St James, Piccadilly, 1676-84Miles Lewis; MUAS 4,436
St Clement Danes, Strand, 1680-2
Miles Lewis; Whinney, Wren, p 50
St Clement Danes, north sideMiles Lewis
St Clement Danes, from the west, with Gibbs's steepledrawing by J Coney, for the Architectural Series of London
Churches, 1818; MUAS 24,409
towers and steeples by WrenMUAS 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: elevationBeard, 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-le-Bow, steeple as first proposed (apparently before 1677; St Magnus Martyr, by Wren,
completed 1705Whinney, 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 1678-80elevation 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 Mansartfor a doorway for the Hôtel de Conti, Paris, after 1648
Whinney, Wren, p 71
St Vedast, Foster Lane,
1670-3: steeple 1694-7
Miles LewisDownes,
Christopher Wren, p 174