Renaissance Architecture

Renaissance

A period of time in which Italy and northern Europe returned to classical ideas an “age of awakening.”

Renaissance

Also called “rebirth of classical art.”

Florence, italy

Where did the Renaissance originate?

Classical Architecture

What inspired the architecture of Renaissance?

Renaissance

Symmetry, proportion, geometry, and regularity of parts; semicircular arches, hemispherical domes, niches, and an orderly arrangement of columns, pilasters, and lintels.

Early Renaisasance

Adoption of Classical detail and ornamentation. Space was organized by proportional logic, its form and rhythm.

High Renaissance

The pinnacle of classical simplicity and harmony in Renaissance art and architecture.

Late Renaissance / Mannerism

Characterized by sophistication, complexity and novelty rather than the harmony, clarity and repose of the High Renaissance.

Giacomo da Vignola

One of the great Italian architects of 16th century Mannerism or Late Renaissance. He is one of the three architects who spread the Italian Renaissance style throughout Western Europe.

Serlio, Vignola, and Palladio

Who were the three architects who spread the Italian Renaissance style throughout Western Europe.

The Five Orders of Architecture

What book did Giacomo da Vignola write?

Gesu Church, Rome, Italy

Officially known as Chiesa del Santissimo Nome di Gesù all’Argentina.

Giacomo da Vignola

Architect of the Church of the Gesù (Il Gesù) in Rome.

Filippo Brunelleschi

Inventor of the perspective. He is considered to be a founding father of Renaissance architecture.

Michelozzo

Who was chosen by Cosimo de’ Medici to design the Palazzo Medici Riccardi after Brunelleschi’s design was considered too grand?

Riccardi Pala, Florence, Italy

The corners of this building are emphasized by rusticated quoins.

Quoins

Rectangular blocks of masonry brick that are built into the corners of a wall.

Michelangelo Buonarroti

He is an Italian sculptor, painter, architect, and poet of the High Renaissance. He is defined as an archetypal Renaissance man.

Renaissance Man

Also known as polymath. This term is used for a very clever man who is good at many different things.

Farnese Palace, Rome, Italy

Antonio da Sangallo the Younger

Original architect of Farnese Palace.

Michelangelo Buonarroti

Completed / modified the building after Sangallo's death, including major work on the upper façade and cornice of the Farnese Palace.

Andrea Palladio

Famous for the villas. He designed in and around Vicenza. He wrote the book “Four Books of Architecture.”

Palladian Architecture

A European architectural style derived from the work of the Venetian architect, Andrea Palladio.

Inigo Jones

Palladianism emerged in England led by ________________.

Palladian Door

A door topped with a rounded arch and flanked by vertical rectangular areas of fixed glass on each side that are narrower than and usually not as high as the door.

Villa Rotonda, Vicenza, Italy

Also called “Villa Capra”.

Andrea Palladio

Designed Villa Capra, also known as Villa Rotonda.

Gesu Church, Rome, Italy

Villa Rotonda, Vicenza, Italy

Riccardi Pala, Florence, Italy

central circular hall

‘La Rotunda’ refers to the _________________.

45 degrees

By how many degrees was Villa Rotonda rotated so that each room could receive sunlight?

Leon Battista Alberti

He believed that perfect harmony could be mathematically deduced, and represented in the proportions of architectural elements in a structure.

Leon Battista Alberti

He wrote the book De re Aedificatoria (On the Art of Building).