A dictionary of the architecture and archaeology of the middle ages: including words used by ancient and modern authors in treating of architectural and other antiquities ... also, biographical notices of ancient architects / By John Britton ... Illustrated by numerous engravings by J. Le Keux.

  • Britton, John, 1771-1857.
Date:
1838
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Credit: A dictionary of the architecture and archaeology of the middle ages: including words used by ancient and modern authors in treating of architectural and other antiquities ... also, biographical notices of ancient architects / By John Britton ... Illustrated by numerous engravings by J. Le Keux. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    tiirrim, et alham, et ad ignem quando necesse fuerit.”— Du Cange. Albarh. Lat.; low Lat. White-washers, distinguished from pectores, or plasterers. Albarium. Lat.; album-opus, low Lat. White - wash ; or, according to Pliny and Vitruvius, a white stucco, or plaster, made of a pure kind of lime, burned from marble, and used to spread over the roofs of houses. Pectorium was a coarser kind of plaster. Albert, Archbishop of York in 767. According to Alcuin, who wrote a poem De Pontijic. et Sanctis Eccles. Ebor., Albert superintended, or directed, the completion of the cathedral which had been commenced by his predecessor, Egbert, about 742. The same Anglo-Saxon poet describes the church as of considerable height, supported by columns and arches, covered by a vaulted roof, and provided with large windows. It had also porticos and galleries, and thirty altars, the latter of which were adorned with various orna- ments.— [Cath. Antiq.: York, p. 28.] Albert founded a library in his cathedral, which is ascribed by William of Malmsbury to Egbert. Alberti (L EON Battista) ; a Florentine architect, painter, and sculptor, was employed by Pope Nicholas V., in con- junction with Bosselin, to make designs for the new church of St. Peter, at Rome, about the middle of the fifteenth century. The same Pontiff also engaged him to design se- veral other architectural works. On returning from Rome to his native city, Florence, he was employed on different palaces, monasteries, and churches, both there, and at Rimini and Mantua. The church of San Francesco, at Rimini, is said to be the most beautiful building erected by this architect. He was author of a treatise, De Re Mdifica- torid, in ten books, which has been translated into English and other languages ; but, according to Milizia, it is some- what overcharged with useless erudition.”—[Lives of Archi- tects, by Cmj/.] Alberti died in 1472. Alcha. Low Lat. A cellar, pantry, or an apartment for the reception of drinking-vessels, ^c.—Carpentier, Glos. Nov.