Renaissance Architecture

Examples of Renaissance Architecture in the following topics:

• Renaissance Architecture

  • Renaissance architecture is European architecture between the early 15th and early 17th centuries.
  • Stylistically, Renaissance architecture came after the Gothic period and was succeeded by the Baroque.
  • Renaissance architecture adopted obvious distinguishing features of classical Roman architecture.
  • The Dome of St Peter's Basilica, Rome is often cited as a foundational piece of Renaissance architecture.
  • Name some distinguishing features of Italian Renaissance architecture, its major exponents, and important architectural concepts

• Renaissance Architecture in Rome

  • The style of Roman Renaissance architecture does not greatly differ from what may be observed in Florence Renaissance architecture.
  • Donato Bramante (1444—1514) was a key figure in Roman architecture during the High Renaissance. 
  • The Tempietto is considered by many scholars to be the premier example of High Renaissance architecture.
  • Another primary example of Renaissance Roman architecture includes the Palazzo Farnese, one of the most important High Renaissance palaces in Rome.
  • Identify features and the most important examples of Roman Renaissance architecture

• Renaissance Architecture in Florence

  • Renaissance architecture first developed in Florence in the 15th century and represented a conscious revival of classical styles.
  • The Quattrocento, or the 15th century in Florence, was marked by the development of the Renaissance style of architecture, which represented a conscious revival and development of ancient Greek and Roman architectural elements.
  • Another key figure in the development of Renaissance architecture in Florence was Leon Battista Alberti (1402—1472), an important Humanist theoretician and designer, whose book on architecture De re aedificatoria was the first architectural treatise of the Renaissance.
  • The facade of Santa Maria Novella (1456–70) also showed similar Renaissance innovations based on classical Roman architecture.
  • The Florence Cathedral is the first example of a true dome in Renaissance architecture.

• Mannerist Architecture

  • They did so by deliberately playing with the symmetry, order, and harmony typically found in Renaissance architecture.
  • They did so by deliberately playing with the symmetry, order, and harmony typically found in Renaissance architecture.
  • As a result, Mannerist architecture appears playful, almost as if the architects are deliberately playing with expectations put forth by Renaissance architecture.
  • In Mannerist architecture, the Renaissance ideal of harmony gave way to freer and more imaginative rhythms.
  • Relate Mannerist architecture to the Early Renaissance style that came before

• Architecture in the High Renaissance

  • Architecture during the High Renaissance represents a culmination of the architectural developments that were made during the Renaissance.
  • During the Early Renaissance, theories on art were developed, new advancements in painting and architecture were made, and the style was defined.
  • Renaissance architecture is characterized by symmetry and proportion, and is directly influenced by the study of antiquity.
  • A key figure in Roman architecture during the High Renaissance was Donato Bramante (1444–1514).
  • The Tempietto is considered by many scholars to be the premier example of High Renaissance architecture.

• Renaissance Architecture in Venice

  • In the Veneto, the Renaissance ushered in a new era of architecture after a Gothic phase, which drew on classical Roman and Greek motifs.
  • The city also has several Renaissance and Baroque buildings, including the Ca' Pesaro and the Ca' Rezzonico.
  • In the Venato, the Renaissance ushered in a new era of architecture after a phase of Gothic art, with the creation of important works including the Ca' d'Oro and the churches of Santa Maria Gloriosa dei Frari and of Saints John and Paul in Venice.
  • This phase of architecture demonstrates how Gothic and Byzantine influences lingered much longer in Venice than they did in Florence or Rome during the Renaissance.
  • Describe the style of Venetian architecture during the Renaissance, and of Palladio in particular

• Spanish Architecture in the Northern Renaissance

  • Gothic, Renaissance, and Mannerist elements are all important to the architecture of Spain in the sixteenth century.
  • Renaissance architecture reached the Iberian peninsula in the sixteenth century, ushering in a new style that gradually replaced the Gothic architecture, which had been popular for the centuries.
  • Local architects developed a specifically Spanish Renaissance, bringing the influence of South Italian architecture, sometimes from illuminated books and paintings, mixed with Gothic tradition and local traditions.
  • The compound of El Escorial contains features that conform to the austerity of Renaissance architecture throughout Europe while also anticipating the Baroque era.
  • Examine the influence of Gothic, Renaissance, and Mannerist elements in the architecture of Spain in the sixteenth century.

• Neoclassical Architecture

  • Neoclassical architecture looks to the classical past of the Graeco-Roman era, the Renaissance, and classicized Baroque to convey a new era based on Enlightenment principles.
  • Neoclassical architecture, which  began in the mid-eighteenth century, looks to the classical past of the Graeco-Roman era, the Renaissance, and classicized Baroque to convey a new era based on Enlightenment principles.
  • The dome, on the other hand, is more influenced by Renaissance and Baroque predecessors, such as St.
  • The movement was also inspired by a more vague perception ("ideal") of Ancient Greek arts and, to a lesser extent, sixteenth-century Renaissance Classicism, which was also a source for academic Late Baroque architecture.
  • These models were increasingly available for close study through the medium of architectural engravings of measured drawings of surviving Roman architecture.

• The Italian Renaissance

  • Through a variety of texts that survive, we know that people living during the Renaissance saw themselves as different largely because they were deliberately trying to imitate the Ancients in art and architecture.
  • When you hear the term "Renaissance" and picture a style of art, you are probably picturing the Renaissance style that was developed in Florence, which became the dominate style of art during the Renaissance.
  • There were many different styles of art and architecture that were developed in Italy during the Renaissance.
  • High Renaissance painting evolved into Mannerism in Florence.
  • Raphael was one of the great artists of the High Renaissance.

• Architecture

  • Neoclassical architecture is an architectural style that was produced by the neoclassical movement that began in the mid-eighteenth century.
  • Though neoclassical architecture employs the same classical vocabulary as Late Baroque architecture, it tends to emphasize its planar qualities rather than its sculptural volumes.
  • The movement was also inspired by a more vague perception ("ideal") of Ancient Greek arts and, to a lesser extent, sixteenth-century Renaissance Classicism, which was also a source for academic Late Baroque architecture.
  • It is also recognizable in the classicizing vein of Late Baroque architecture in Paris.
  • These models were increasingly available for close study through the medium of architectural engravings of measured drawings of surviving Roman architecture.