TY  - BOOK
AU  - Hart,Vaughan
TI  - St. Paul's Cathedral: Sir Christopher Wren 
SN  - 0714829986
AV  - NA5470.S5 H35 1995
PY  - 1995///
CY  - London
PB  - Phaidon Press
KW  - Wren, Christopher,
KW  - St. Paul's Cathedral (London, England)
KW  - Church architecture
KW  - England
KW  - London
KW  - London (England)
KW  - Buildings, structures, etc
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. 60)
N2  - St Paul's Cathedral is one of the most magnificent buildings ever constructed. With arches modelled on those in the ancient Basilica of Maxentius and a huge dome rivaling that of St Peter's, Wren's Cathedral reflects the glory of ancient and modern Rome. In structure, form and detail the design exemplifies Wren's principle of natural beauty, which he justified with reference to the history of architecture and the hidden truths of nature as cultivated by seventeenth-century science. Wren advised the architect 'to think his judges...those that are to live five centuries after him, as (well as) those of his own time', and St Paul's represents Wren's own attempt to set in stone an architecture of eternal validity
ER  -