Period of learning

- Designers were intent on the accurate

transcription of Roman elements

Renaissance became an individual style in

its own right

High Renaissance

where there was more confidence in using the acquired

vocabulary freely (represented by Michelangelo)

Architects worked with freedom and

firmly-acquired knowledge

- The true nature of Renaissance as a

distinctive style began to emerge

PERIODS OF RENAISSANCE

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

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.

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.

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

Architects of St. Peter’s Basilica:

- His design was selected from several entries in a competition

- He proposed a Greek cross plan and a dome similar to the Pantheon in Rome

Architects of St. Peter’s Basilica:

Proposed a Latin cross plan

Architects of St. Peter’s Basilica:

Reverted to Greek cross

Architects of St. Peter’s Basilica:

- Slightly altered plan

- extended vestibule and campanile, and

elaborated the central dome

Architects of St. Peter’s Basilica:

Undertook the project at 72

years old-present building owes most of its

outstanding features to him

- Greek-cross plan, strengthened dome,

redesigned surrounding chapels

Architects of St. Peter’s Basilica:

Completed dome in 1590

Architects of St. Peter’s Basilica:

Added sided cupolas

Architects of St. Peter’s Basilica:

- Lengthened nave to form

Latin cross and built the gigantic façade

Architects of St. Peter’s Basilica:

Erected noble entrance piazza 198 m wide with Tuscan colonnade

- Completed plan is a Latin cross with an internal length of 183 m, width of 137 m

- At crossing, majestic dome of 41.9 m internal diameter

- Largest church in the world

With its U-shaped plan and its architectural style, the former Hôtel de l'Intendance, built between 1774 and 1776 by the architect Jean-François Advyné, is a stylistically archaic achievement compared to other stewardship hotels of the same period.

One of the most harmonious of all chateaux

Designed by Francois Mansart on a symmetrical E-plan

the place where it sat (the provincial capital of Normandy), was a provincial parlement of the Kingdom of France. It replaced the ancient court of the exchequer of Normandy, set up by Rollo, first duke of Normandy.

is one of the most recognizable châteaux in the world because of its very distinctive French Renaissance architecture which blends traditional French medieval forms with classical Renaissance structures.

- Designed by an Italian, Domenico da Cortona

- Semi-fortified palace, most famous in Loire

district

Built from Francis I to Napoleon III

- Together with Tuilleries, 45 acres constituting one of the most imposing palaces in Europe

- Designed by JA Gabriel for Louis XV

- One of most superb pieces of domestic

architecture of the century

1st Phase: Italian Renaissance influenced

by

2nd Phase: French Renaissance influenced

by

ENGLAND

Period of Design

Great hall, kitchen and office, living rooms,

grand staircase, long gallery, withdrawing

room or solar, towers, gables, parapets,

balustrades, chimney stacks, oriel and bay

Designed by Inigo Jones

is the grandest and best known survivor of the architectural genre of banqueting house,

is a former royal residence built between 1616 and 1635 near Greenwich Palace, a few miles down-river from the City of London and now in the London Borough of Greenwich.

Influenced by Palladian architecture

Designed by Christopher Wren

- Area of 6000 sq.m and a large central

space under dome for big congregations

-has the second biggest dome in the world

rich and poetic style, so

named for its similarity to silversmiths'

work – plateria

form of Renaissance did not follow classical art

fantastically extravagant

expression, by Jose de Churriguera, (1650

to 1723 AD)

(1750 to 1830 AD)

- Returned to ancient classical models

Decorative rather than structural in

character, inspired by the voyages of

discoverers

Projecting portal by Francois Mansart, dome by

Lemercier

earliest wholly-classical church facade

by Salomon de Brosse

is a church in Paris, France, on the Montagne Sainte-Geneviève in the 5th arrondissement, near the Panthéon

Most monumental mansion in England

Example of central block with wings

The facade is a Plateresque design masterpiece

Admirable crafts

Exemplififies progressive developments of the Early

Renaissance on the castle

Saalbau,Heinrichsbau, Friedrichsbau

Great watchtower and irregular court

One of most striking Baroque monuments