Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Renaissance Architecture.
- Renaissance architecture is the architecture of the period between the early 15th and 17th centuries.
- Renaissance architecture followed Gothic architecture and was succeeded by the Baroque architecture.
Anmerkungen:
- Developed first in Florence, with Filippo Bruelleschi as one of its innovators.
- The style was carried to France, Germany, England, Russia and other parts of Europe.
- Renaissance style places emphasis on symmetry, proportion, and geometry.
- Columns, domes, arches and vaults are a few examples of what was used in a Renaissance building.
- Italian architects always preferred forms of architecture that were clearly were defined and structural members that expressed their purpose.
- Italy never fully adopted the Gothic style of architecture. Apart from the Cathedral of Milan.
- The presence of ancient architecture remains showing the Classical Style, provided an inspiration to artists at that time when philosophy was also turning towards classical.
- In 1570, Andrea Palladio published "The Four Books Of Architecture" in Venice. This book was widely printed and responsible for spreading the ideas of the Renaissance through Europe.