HISTO-RENAISSANCE(HISTO)

ARCHITECTURAL CHARACTER

• Dignity & Formality shown through

  “symmetry

• “Orders of

  Architecture”

Period of learning

- Designers were intent on the accurate

transcription of Roman elements

• Early Renaissance

• High Renaissance

• Mid Renaissance

Renaissance became an individual style in

its own right

• High Renaissance

• Early Renaissance

• Mid Renaissance

High Renaissance

where there was more confidence in using the acquired

vocabulary freely (represented by Michelangelo)

• proto-baroque

• churugeresque

• rococo

Architects worked with freedom and

firmly-acquired knowledge

- The true nature of Renaissance as a

distinctive style began to emerge

• Early Renaissance

• High Renaissance Or Proto-Baroque

• Baroque

PERIODS OF RENAISSANCE

• Early Renaissance

• High Renaissance

• Baroque

By Benedetto da Majano

Representative of the Florentine palace of that period

- Open cortile and piano nobile

- Astylar exterior of uniform rustication

- Cornice of 1/13 the height, 2.1 m

projection

• Palazzo Strozzi

• Palazzo Medici-Riccardi

• Palazzo Rucellai

• Palaise du Louvre, Paris

The first Medici palace, the home of Cosimo the Elder and Lorenzo the Magnificent and the workplace of artists of the calibre of Donatello, Michelangelo, Paolo Uccello, Benozzo Gozzoli and Botticelli.

• Palazzo Strozzi

• Palazzo Medici-Riccardi

• Palazzo Rucellai

• Palaise du Louvre, Paris

Its splendid facade was one of the first to proclaim the new ideas of Renaissance architecture based on the use of pilasters and entablatures in proportional relationship to each other.

• Palazzo Strozzi

• Palazzo Medici-Riccardi

• Palazzo Rucellai

• Palaise du Louvre, Paris

Most important Renaissance building in Italy

- With cathedral, piazza and the Vatican, forms a world- famous group

- 120 years, outcome of the works of many architects under the direction of the pope

• Chateau de Justice, Rouen

• Palaise du Louvre, Paris

• S. Peter, Rome

• Petit Trianon, Versailles