Architecture in the Renaissance

Medieval characteristics

Gothic architecture:

very tall (emphasized height), large arches, flying buttresses, stained glass, spikes, northern origin, large windows, vast open spaces

Medieval characteristics

• Romanesque: thick walls, small windows (slits), round arches, columns, low to the ground

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Renaissance architecture

In the late 15th century and early 16th century there was a conscious revival and development of certain elements of Classical Greek and Roman thought and culture.The architectural period known as “High Renaissance" coincides with the age of Leonardo, Michelangelo and Raphael.

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Renaissance style places emphasis

On symmetry, proportion, geometry and the regularity of parts from the architecture of Classical antiquity (Ancient Rome) of which many examples remained.Orderly arrangements of columns and lintels, as well as the use of semicircular arches, domes, replacing the complex and irregular profiles of medieval buildings.

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Temple of Vesta, Rome, 205 AD. One of he most important temples of Ancient

RomeIt became the model for Renaissance

architecture.

Columns and Pilasters

The Roman orders of columns were used i.e. Tuscan, Doric (male), and Ionic (female), Corinthian & Composite.

They can either be structural or purely decorative, set against a wall in the form of pilasters.

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Domes

Domes were rarely used in the Middle Ages, but after the success of the dome St. Peter's Basilica (1506) it became an indispensable element in church architecture and later in secular architecture.

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The Dome of St Peter's Basilica, Rome.

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St. Peter's Basilica

the Sistine Chapel

The front entrance to St. Peter's Basilica is an enormous piazza framed by two long, curving colonnades -- a design that symbolizes the arms of the Roman Catholic Church reaching out to embrace the faithful. The piazza can hold some 300,000 people with room to spare.

Dome ComparisonsIl Duomo St. Peter’s St. Paul’s US capital (Florence) (Rome) (London) (Washington)

Michelangelo

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Michelangelo

• Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475–1564), was one of the creative giants whose achievements mark the High Renaissance. He excelled in each of the fields of painting, sculpture and architecture and his achievements brought about significant changes in each area. His architectural fame lies chiefly in two buildings:- the interiors of the Laurentian Library and its lobby at the monastery of San Lorenzo in Florence, and the Basilica of St. Peter in Rome.

• St Peter's was "the greatest creation of the Renaissance", and a great number of architects contributed their skills to it. But at its completion, there was more of Michelangelo’s design than of any other architect, before or after him.

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• Michelangelo

• St Peter's was "the greatest creation of the Renaissance” and a great number of architects contributed their skills to it. But at its completion, there was more of Michelangelo’s design than of any other architect, before or after him.

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St. Peter's Basilica from Castel Sant'Angelo showing the dome rising behind Maderna's facade

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St Peter’s Piazza

Kirby Hall, Northampton shire

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This great Elizabethan mansion was transformed into a Regency home for the 1999 film 'Mansfield Park' .

Kirby Hall,

• Kirby Hall, built in 1570, was used as the great house during the filming of Patricia Rozema's 1999 film version of of Mansfield Park the book. Rozema explained that in her gritty adaption, Mansfield is imagined as a “cold, remote place, not this cuddly, glittery, warm, lush environment that you see in a lot of adaptations".

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Ideal city of the Renaissance

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Built following the ideals of a utopia.

The Shakespearean Stage

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