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FILIPPO BRUNELLESCHI
He is traditionally regarded as the
father of Renaissance architecture, who, in
the words of Vasari, ‘was sent by Heaven
to invest architecture with new forms, after
it had wandered astray for many
centuries’.
MANNERISM
During this period, architects experimented
with using architectural forms to emphasize solid and
spatial relationships.
QUATTROCENTO

HIGH RENAISSANCE

MANNERISM

RENAISSANCE BUILDING CHARACTERISTICS
The plans of Renaissance buildings have a square,
symmetrical appearance in which proportions are
usually based on a module.
ST. ANDREA DE MANTUA- ALBERTI

PALAZZO RUCELLAI- ALBERTI

ST. PETER’S BASILICA

CEILINGS
Roofs are fitted with flat or coffered ceilings.
PALAZZO CAMPIDOGLIO- MICHAELANGELO

WINDOWS
Windows may be paired and set within a semi-circular
arch.
PALAZZO FARNESE- A. DA SANGALLO

FILIPPO BRUNELLESCHI

FLORENCE CATHEDRAL

BASILICA OF SAN LORENZO

BASILICA OF SANTO SPIRITO

MARCUS VITRUVIUS POLLIO

LEON BATTISTA ALBERTI

ANDREA PALLADIO

PALAZZO CHIERICATI, VICENZA

GIORGIO VASARI

la rinascita
▪The word "Renaissance" derived from
the term_________(meaning re-
birth)which first appeared in Giorgio
Vasari’s Vitede’più eccellenti architetti,
pittori, et scultori Italiani (The Lives of
the Artists,1550–68)
VASARI
Considered as the “Father of Art History”
VITRUVIUS
According to ________, architecture is an immitation of nature
1401
Brunelleschi competed against Lorenzo Ghiberti,
a young rival, and five other sculptors for the commission
to make the bronze reliefs for the door of the Florence
baptistery.
Brunelleschi
trained as a goldsmith and sculptor
and enrolled in the Arte della Seta, the silk merchants'
guild,
QUATTROCENTO
concepts of architectural order were
explored and rules were formulated. The study of classical
antiquity led in particular to the adoption of Classical detail and
ornamentation.
HIGH RENAISSANCE
concepts derived from
classical antiquity were developed and used with
greater surety.
SAN PIETRO, MONTORIO

OUR LADY OF SORROWS

PALAZZO MEDICI RICARDI- MICHELLOZO

BASILICA OF SAN LORENZO

BASILICA OF SANTO SPIRITO

On Painting
The first was Della Pittura [————-] in 1435 in which he provided the first systematic exposition of the rules of
one-point perspective and the theory of painting as
grounded in visual experience with geometrical
principles.
On Sculpture
The second was Della Statua
(———) in 1436 (with a
later version in 1450) in which
he argued that statues are
geometric imitations of nature
and for which he worked out
a canon of human
proportions.
CHURCH OF SAN MAGGIORE, VENICE
