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The modern archaeologists mention more modest dimensions: 92 meters wide, having
6 floors stepped and crowned by a temple had with tiles. It is not left to
anything of her, single the Arab bricks that joined Loa to construct part of
Baghdad. The hanging gardens of Babylonia, probably constructed by king
Nabucodonosor II towards the 600 a. C., consisted of a series of landscaped
terraces that formed an artificial mountain species.
Baroque architecture. In the middle of century XVII they began to show
changes in the architecture of Mexico. There was a tension between the most
preservative architects and those than wanted to innovate introducing baroque
elements that they came from Europe and were introducing in the field of the
poetry with Sister Juan Ines de la Cruz. In these works the fusion between the
Spanish baroque style and the native takes place. The architecture for Pedro
Henríquez Ureña is very important because in the arts it is where it is possible
to be observed the nationalism and the native peculiarity. Ureña in its test
says that the Americans have a series of original characteristics that them
difference of the world, and this can be observed until in the architecture "...
our towns know, as much as the United States, be created in few days formidable
beehives, new types of city which they differ radically from the European, and
until undertaking, like Rio de Janeiro, feats no anticipated by the North
American large cities". The Baroque one does not arise jointly with century
XVIII, but that has a series of precedents in the last quarter of the previous
century, which we could fit neither within the Renaissance nor the Baroque one.
IL Gesù (1568-1584).
Here we have Il Gesù, first house of the Company of Jesus, founded by San
Ignacio de Loyola, one of you order them arisen with the Counter reform. This
church is initiated in 1568 and consecrated in 1584. It was financed by
Alexander Farnecio, nephew of Paulo III, being ordered to the best Italian
architect to the death of Miguel Angel, Vignola. This one was the preferred
architect of the Pope and architect of camera of the Farnesio. To the margin of
the architecture he was also treater, publishing in 1562 the five books of
Architecture. Up to 1568 the model of plant centralized, having made Vignola
several works according to this one was enough frequent, but in this work the
longitudinal plant is imposed, when considering itself the plant centralized
like susceptible of paganism. Thus one becomes to considered the longitudinal
plants to the being like traditional. On the other hand, the precedent of San
Andres de Mantua, of Alberty exists, like a model typephic clearly and that it
is imposed to Vignola. With this plant a great capacity looked for and to
reflect the form de la Cruz, also allowing the celebration of several masses you
synchronize in the chapels. On the other hand, with this plant one looked for to
reflect a clear Christian tradition. |
