The St. Andrea Church in Mantua, Italy was begun in 1462 according to designs by Leon Battista Alberti. It has an early Renaissance style with a large central arched facade flanked by Corinthian pilasters based on the Arch of Titus. The interior features a barrel-vaulted dome covered in frescoes and chapels on each side of the dimly lit nave.

1. ST. ANDREAST. ANDREA
MANTUAMANTUA

2. INTRODUCTIONINTRODUCTION
•ARCHITECT : LEON BATTISTA ALBERTI
•LOCATION : MANTUA,ITALY
•BUILDINGTYPE : CHURCH
•CONSTRUCTION SYSTEM : BRICK BEARING MASONRY
•CLIMATE : MEDITERRANIAN
•STYLE : EARLY RENNAISSANCE

3. FEATURESFEATURES
•IT IS A RENAISSANCE ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH.
•THE CHURCH WAS BEGUN IN 1462 ACCORDING TO DESIGNS
BY LEON BATTISTA ALBERTI ON A SITE OCCUPIED BY
A BENEDICTINE MONASTERY, OF WHICH THE BELL TOWER
(1414) REMAINS.
•THE BUILDING, HOWEVER, WAS FINISHED ONLY 328 YEARS
LATER.
•AN IMPORTANT ASPECT WAS THE CORRESPONDENCE
BETWEEN THE FAÇADE AND THE INTERIOR ELEVATIONS,
BOTH ELABORATIONS OF THE TRIUMPHAL ARCH MOTIF.

4. • THE ENTRANCE BARREL VAULT ECHOES THE INTERIOR
WITH ITS HUGE BARREL VAULT WHILE THE LOGGIA
VAULTING ECHOES THE BARREL VAULTING IN THE
CHAPELS INSIDE AT RIGHT ANGLES TO THE NAVE.
ENTRANCE

5. FACADEFACADE
•IT IS DEFINED BY A LARGE
CENTRAL ARCH, FLANKED BY
CORINTHIAN PILASTERS.
• THE HEIGHT OF THE FACADE
EQUALS ITS WIDTH.
•BASED ON THE SCHEME OF THE
ANCIENT ARCH OF TITUS.
FACADEFACADE

6. •THE FACADE PILASTERS
CONTINUE THROUGH THREE
STORIES--THE SO-CALLED
"GIANT" ORDER.
•IT IS LARGELY A BRICK
STRUCTURE WITH HARDENED
STUCCO.
•THE WHOLE IS SURMOUNTED
BY A PEDIMENT AND ABOVE
THAT A VAULTED STRUCTURE.

7. •BARREL VAULT OF THE NAVE REACHED WELL ABOVE THE
APEX OF THE PEDIMENT, WHICH WAS ALSO SURMOUNTED
BY A LARGE CANOPY OVER THE NAVE WINDOW

8. INTERIORINTERIOR
•THE INTERIOR OF THE
CATHEDRAL BOASTS A
ROUNDED BARREL-
VAULTED DOME WHICH
IS COVERED IN
FRESCOES.
•FILIPPO JUVARRA WAS
THE ACTUAL BUILDER
OF THE DOME AND
DETAILS.
DOMEDOME

9. •THE FIRST CHAPEL TO THE LEFT IS THE RESTING PLACE OF
THE ARTIST MANTEGNA IN HIS FUNERAL CHAPEL.
MANTEGNA WAS BURIED HERE WHEN HE DIED IN 1506.
WITHIN THE CHAPEL THERE IS A BRONZE FIGURE OF HIM.
CHAPEL TO LEFTCHAPEL TO LEFT

10. •THIS CHURCH HAS A
SINGLE NAVE WITHOUT
SIDE AISLES WHILE THREE
BARREL-VAULTED
CHAPELS ARE ON EACH
SIDE OF THE NAVE. THE
CHURCH IS THUS VERY
DIMLY LIT. THE CROSSING
IS MARKED BY A DOME.
PLAN

11. •THE WALLS ARE
DECORATED BY
FRESCOES.
•THE NAVE OF
THE INTERIOR IS
ROOFED BY
A BARREL
VAULT.
THE COFFERED BARREL-VAULTED NAVE--THE COFFERED BARREL-VAULTED NAVE--
LOOKING TOWARD THE APSE.LOOKING TOWARD THE APSE.

12. REFERENCESREFERENCES
•WWW.GREATBUILDINGS.COM
•WWW.WIKIPEDIA.COM
•WWW.GOOGLE.COM
•WWW.BLUFFTON.EDU
•HISTORY OF ARCHITECTURE (BY SIR BANISTER FLETCHER)

13. Submitted by :-
Ramkrishna Agrawal
Abhishek Ola
Rahul Kanodia