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Illustration to Serlio, rusticated doorway of the type now called a Gibbs surround, 1537. Although rustication is known from a few buildings of Greek and Roman antiquity, for example Rome's Porta Maggiore, the method first became popular during the Renaissance, when the stone work of lower floors and sometimes entire facades of buildings were finished in this manner. [4]
Gibbs surround is named after the architect James Gibbs, who often used it and popularized it in England, for example at St Martin-in-the-Fields in London. Here the side doors have surrounds with all the details including pediments, while the round-topped windows along the sides have Gibbs surrounds if the broadest definition is used.
Rustication, occasionally rustification (literally "to or of the countryside"), may refer to: . Rustication (architecture), a style of masonry giving stones a deliberately rough finish
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John Milton (1609–1674), rusticated from Christ's College, Cambridge, in 1626 for quarreling with his tutor. [4] John Dryden (1631–1700), rusticated from Trinity College, Cambridge, for having exchanged insults with his college vice-master. [5] Walter Savage Landor (1775–1864), rusticated from Trinity College, Oxford, in 1794. Landor had ...
The corners of buildings are often emphasized by rusticated quoins. Basements and ground floors were often rusticated, as at the Palazzo Medici Riccardi (1444–1460) in Florence. Internal walls are smoothly plastered and surfaced with lime wash. For more formal spaces, internal surfaces are decorated with frescoes.
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