1991 Royal Academy of Arts Poster, Sir Christopher Wren, "The Making of St Pauls" Architecture, artist gallery exhibition, wall art decor

1991 Royal Academy of Arts Poster, Sir Christopher Wren, "The Making of St Pauls" Architecture, artist gallery exhibition, wall art decor

This exhibition poster is from the Royal Academy of Arts for an exhibition in 1991 featuring "Sir Christopher Wren and the Making of St Pauls". It features Sir Christopher Wren's "The Great Model" from 1673-74 made of oak and plaster.
Dimensions: 30.3 in x 20.1 in (77 cm x 51 cm)

Wren’s unrealised Great Model, now in the cathedral’s Trophy Room, took about ten months to design from December 1672 to September 1673 and more than a year afterwards to build and decorate. Wren developed the Great Model from a proposal known as the Greek Cross, a design at All Souls College, Oxford, for a monumental, centrally planned cathedral on new foundations. He had prepared this design soon after presenting a scheme known as the First Model in May 1670 In this proposal a long, ten-bay, choir-auditory, with covered walkways around its exterior and a domed vestibule at the west end would have been built over the foundations of the old eastern arm and crossing. Within about two years it was judged ‘not stately enough’, and a decision followed to rebuild on new foundations.

Sir Christopher Wren was one of the most highly acclaimed English architects in history, as well as an anatomist, astronomer, geometer, and mathematician-physicist. He was accorded responsibility for rebuilding 52 churches in the City of London after the Great Fire in 1666, including what is regarded as his masterpiece, St Paul's Cathedral, on Ludgate Hill, completed in 1710.

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