Renaissance Architecture
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Renaissan ce Architect ure Classicism revisited
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Transcript of Renaissance Architecture
Renaissance
ArchitectureClassicism revisited
Origins & Major Architects
• Ancient writings of Vitruvius• Relics, heritage• Contemporary writings of Leon
Battista Alberti• Important works by Fillipo
Brunelleschi and Andrea Palladio• Apex with Michelangelo
Types
• Florentine Pallazzi (palaces)• Venetian villas• Churches and chapels
Leon Battista Alberti
Sant’ Andrea, Mantua
Santa Maria Novella, Florence
Fillippo Brunelleschi
Pazzi Chapel, Florence
Andrea Palladio
Villa Rotonda, Vicenza
San Giorgio Maggiore, Venice
Palaces of Florence
Michelangelo Buonarotti
Campidoglio, Capitoline Hill, Rome
Plan of the Campidoglio
Mannerism, The Anti-Renaissance