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The Renaissance
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Scholars flee to Italy with ancient texts of the Greeks and Romans
Early spread(through Italy)
Later spread
Florence
Renaissance architects took inspiration from buildings of classic antiquity. The emphasis is placed upon symmetry, proportion, and regularity of parts.
Basilica of St Peter, VaticanRebuild during Renaissance
Major trading cities: Milan, Florence, Genoa, Venice
Florence wealthy from wool and banking Medici family were bankers with political
power Hired artists and architects to make
Florence great
Florence, the preeminent Italian city-state in the fifteenth century, was home to the powerful Medici family, whose wealth derived from their considerable banking interests
Although the Medici never ruled Florence outright, over the course of 76 years (1418-1494), they moulded and manipulated, controlled and cajoled, persuaded and provoked the citizens of Florence
Florence
Florence Cathedral. Begun 1296 on original plan by Arnolfo di Cambio; redesigned 1357
and 1366 by Francesco Talenti, Andrea Orcagna, and Neri di Fioravanti; dome 1420--1436 by Filippo Brunelleschi; baptistery, late
11th--early 12th century; campanile ca. 1334--1350 by Giotto, Andrea Pisano, and Francesco Talenti. Height at bronze ball atop lantern, 350'.
Lorenzo Ghiberti(1378-1455)
Pierro della Francesca “View of an Ideal City”
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Essential characteristic of the renaissance art, is that it develops highly realistic linear perspective.
Creation of Adam, fresco fragment in Sistine Chapel, VaticanBy Michelangelo
Sculptor, architect, town planner, inventor, engineer, mapmaker, painted Mona Lisa
According to Vitruvius, if:
the human head is 1/8th of the height of an idealized figure
then, the human body itself fits into the ideal musical interval of the octave, the interval that gives the impression of duplicating the original note at a higher or lower pitch
Leonardo illustrated how the human figure generates both the circle and the square
Title: Interior, Sistine Chapel, Vatican, Rome, Vatican, Rome
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Date: Built 1475-1481. Ceiling painted 1508-1512; wall behind altar painted 1536-1541
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Campidoglio, Michelangelo’s façade, 1537 Rome
Tempietto 1502
Bramante, Rome
Tempietto 1502 Bramante, Rome
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Il Duomo St. Peter’s St. Paul’s US capital
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Title: Villa Rotonda ( Villa Capra), Vicenza, Italy
Artist: Andrea Palladio
Date: Begun 1550
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Title: Capponi Chapel, Church of Santa Felicità, Florence
Artist: Early Renaissance Chapel by Filippo Brunellschi; Tondos, Murals, and altarpiece by Pontormo
Date: Chapel: 1419-1423. Pontormo, tondos with the four evangelists and mural painting of the Annunciation, on the window wall, 1525-1528; Pontormo, The Deposition, 1525-1527
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Medium: fresco and oil on panel
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Title: Façade of the Church of II Gesù, Rome
Artist: Giacomo da Vignola and Giacomo della Porta.
Date: Begun on Vignola's design in 1568; completed by della Porta c.1575-84
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Title: Elements of Architecture: Parts of the Church Façade
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