Gothic, Romanesque, Renaissance, Neo Classicism

• Earliest patron of Gothic 

Architecture

• Credited with popularizing 

the style.

ABBOT SUGER

3 Main Characteristics of Gothic Architecture

• Ribbed vault

• Pointed arches

• Flying buttress

• a curved ceiling or roof made of stone or bricks.

• Can be part of the load bearing structure or purely Decorative.

RIBBED VAULT

• Vertical or stepped strip running up the face of the wall to reinforce it at the point where it carries a load or a lateral force

FLYING BUTTRESS

• Central feature of Gothic Architecture.

• Formed from two or more intersecting curves that meet in a central apex or 

point. 

POINTED ARCHES

“La Rinascita”

REBIRTH

• First developed in Florence, Italy

• Recovery of Vitruvius’ ten books of Architecture

• The return to ancient models of Art, Architecture, and Literature

THE RENAISSANCE

(ca. 1520–1600)

Mannerism

(ca.1500–1525)

 High Renaissance

(ca. 1400–1500); also known as the Quattrocento

Early Renaissance

• the first great Renaissance architect, was primarily a designer 

of churches. His most famous work is the octagonal brick dome of Florence Basilica.

Filippo Brunelleschi

• became the most influential architectural theorist of the Early Renaissance.

• Instructed on the adaptation of ancient classical forms to modern buildings.

Leon Battista Alberti

• was another architect under patronage of the Medici family, his most famous work being the Palazzo Medici Riccardi, which he was commissioned to design for Cosimo de' Medici in 1444.

MICHELOZZO di BARTOLOMEO

• Founder of one of the main lines of the Medici Family that ruled 

Florence during much of the Italian Renaissance

COSIMO de MEDICI

• Famous for his masterworks “The Mona Lisa” and “The Last Supper”
• Made the famous sketch the Vitruvian man

Leonardo Da Vinci

• Best known work is a sculpture known as “David”

Michelangelo di 

Lodovico Buonarroti

• Famous works: “The school of 

Athens”

Raffaello Sanzio da 

Urbino (Raphael)

• Famous work: Saint Mark

Donato di Niccolò di 

Betto Bardi (Donatello)

The Arab prophet and founder of Islam, AD 570 – 632.

Muhammad

• System of bracketing inserted between the top of the column and crossbeam

• Appeared during the western Zhou Dynasty. Widely used in building contructed in the “beam-in-tiers’ technique

Dougong

Traditional houses built in any of the vernacular architectural styles of Indonesia.

RUHMA ADAT

A shrine that specifically serve as a tomb

Cungkup