Module 19: The High Renaissance

Balustrade

A short post or pillar in a series supporting a rail or coping

Martyrium

structure, usually circular or polygonal, built over the tomb of a Christian martyr

Villa

A country house

The Tempietto

Rome, Italy, 1502

Who designed The Tempietto

Donato Bramante

Plan for St. Peter’s, Donato Bramante, 1506

Plan for St. Peter’s, Michelangelo, 1546

Villa Rotonda

Vicenza, Italy, 1566

Who designed the Villa Rotonda?

Andrea Palladio

Place Royale

Paris, France, 1605

Who was the patron for the Place Royale?

Henry IV

Queen’s House

Greenwich, England, 1616

Who designed the Queen’s House?

Inigo Jones

Banqueting House, Whitehall Palace

London, England, 1620

Who designed the Whitehall Palace?

Inigo Jones

St. Paul’s Church Covet Garden

London, England

Who designed St. Paul’s Church Covet Garden?

Inigo Jones

Donato Bramante (1444-1514)

Italian architect of the High Renaissance; trained as a painter in Urbino before turning to architecture

Leonardo da Vinci (1542-1519)

Renaissance polymath whose studies of anatomy, mechanics, and perspective reflected the humanist union of art, science, and empirical inquiry

Pope Julius II (1443-1513)

ambitious patron of the arts who commissioned Bramante, Michelangelo, and Raphael to transform Rome into the capital of Christian humanism

Michelangelo (1475-1565)

trained in the workshop of Domenico Ghirlandaio and educated in the Medici humanist circle; sculpture, painter, and architect

Andrea Palladio (1508-1580)

Venetian architect and theorist whose Four Books on Architecture symbolized classical principles and profoundly influenced western architecture

Pope Leo X (1475-1521)

Medici pope and major patron of Renaissance culture who continued Julius II’s artistic programs and fostered the flourishing of Rome’s High Renaissance

King James I (1566-1625)

Monarch of England and Scotland whose reign promoted the arts, sponsored the King James Bible, and coincided with the early spread of classical architecture in Britain