Renaissance Architecture

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Rebirth of classical art and learning in Europe

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Renaissance (1420-1550)

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Based on pagan or classical mythological subjects

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Ornamentation

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Scratched and colored plaster

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Sgraffito

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Phases of Renaissance

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Early, High and Late Renaissance

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Adoption of Classical detail and ornamentation

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Early Renaissance

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Riccardi Palace

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Brunelleschi

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Brunelleschi’s principal work

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Dome of Florence Cathedral (Duomo)

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Santa Maria Novella
Wrote the book “De Re Aesificatoria”

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Leon Battista Alberti

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One of the first churches in which consoles were placed in the facade over the side aisles to connect them with the nave

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Santa Maria Novella

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Type of modern Renaissance Churches, consisting of a single nave with transepts, the interior ornamented with a single order on pedestals supporting a barrel vault

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Sant’ Andrea, Mantua

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The pinnacle of classical simplicity and harmony in Renaissance art and architecture

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High Renaissance

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Tempietto of San Pietro

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Donato Bramante

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• Considered one of the High Renaissance buildings in Rome
• Said to be where St. Peter was crucified

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Tempietto of San Pietro

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Featured a general relaxation of the severe simplicity and order of the high Renaissance

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Late Renaissance

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Villa Rotonda

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Andrea Palladio

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Emphasize the systematization of the ground plan and its relationship to the section and elevation of a building

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The Four Books of Architecture

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The Four Books of Architecture

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Andrea Palladio

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Transforming a house into a classical temple

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Villa Rotonda

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Gesu Church

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Giacomo Barozzi da Vignola

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Author of “The Five Orders of Architecture”

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Giacomo Barozzi da Vignola

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The Jesuit mother chruch in Rome

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Gesu Church

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Farnese Palace

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Michelangelo Buonarotti

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A famous Florentine sculptor , and painter of the roof of the Sistine Chapel in Vatican

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Michelangelo Buonarotti

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*Officially the Basilica di San Pietro in Vaticano
*importance of the dome by lifting it placing it in a “drum”

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St. Peter’s Cathedral

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Formulated a design in the form of a Greek cross with entrances at East end

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1506, Bramante

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Division of opinion existed as to altering original plan to a Latin cross

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1513, Giuliano da Sangallo, Raphael, and Fra Giocondo

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The younger proposed the central domain lofty campanile

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1536, Antonio da Sangallo

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Restore the design to a greek cross and plan and commenced the construction of the great dome

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1546, Michelangelo

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Added the cupolas on either side of the great dome

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1564, Vignola

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Lengthen the nave to form a latin cross and erected the present facade

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1605-1612, Carlo Maderna

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Erected the fourfold colonnades inclosing the piazza and erected the baldacchino under the dome

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1629-1667, Bernini

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A reaction against the classical perfection of the High Renaissance

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Mannerism