HISTORY OF

ARCHITECTURE
ITALIAN RENAISSANCE

AVIN
DUAA
ELAF
HOZHEN
LUMA
SHLOVA
ZAINAB

Supervised by : Mr. NARAM MARK

Renaissance Architecture

• Renaissance started in Italy.

• Renaissance architecture and art tried to reuse the
Roman and Greek ideals.
• The idea of a perfection in architecture and art
through a geometrical and mathematical process
reappeared.
• They perfected the sculpture of the human body.
• Renaissance also started to put theories for urban
planning.
• It was affected by the philosophy of humanism.
• They invented many techniques regarding the
perspective drawing and oil painting.
 Difference between
Renaissance and Gothic
characteristics
Italian Renaissance Architecture
• The chief centers of the great revival in Italy were Florence, Rome, and Venice.

• Principal buildings were palaces for kings, dukes, and wealthy and powerful popes.

• Early buildings were principally churches.

• Although the number of palaces in this epoch was very large, it was essentially a church-building age.

• A return to classic forms occurred. Also a variety of use and disposition of the revived architectural features appeared.

• The architectural features were often applique ( only applied to the front façade ).

• The buildings of ancient Rome had great influence on the sculptured and ornamented features.
THE FLORENTINE
SCHOOL
CHARACTERISTIC

Influences
Geographical
Geological
Climate
Religion
Social and political
Historical
 BRUNELLESCHI
•Born in florentine-Italy
•Known for architecture, engineering, sculpture
•Notable work : Dome of florence cathedral
•The Dome of Florence Cathedral
•He built eight sided dome that would be even taller and stronger
• They are two domes instead of ones inner and outer shell
•Held together by giant brick arches and interlocking rings of stone and woods
•Constructed with eight main ribs and sixteen intermediate ribs.
ALBERTI (1404-1472)
was scholar deeply interested in classical literature,
and his works exhibit more decorative treatment and
less massive than those of Brunelleschi

S. ANDREA MANUTA
ROMAN SCHOOL
Education was very important to the
Romans.
Boys from poor and rich families would attend a
'primary school' till they were 12 years old,
learning to read, write and basic mathematics.
The girls rarely went to school, they were usually taught at home:
1. how to run a good household
2. how to make a good wife
3. Music and sewing
Schools were not in an individual building like today, their were
usually held in
part of a shop divided by a curtain. If you were wealthy, you may
have had a
tutor at home.
'Secondary schools' were held for boys from wealthy families.
(12years old -
15years old)
They would study: Latin and Greek
Geography and History
 BRAMANTE
(1444-1514) A.D.
the first Roman architect of note, was
born in the year that Brunelleschi died,
educated as a painter under Andrea
Mantegna, and was probably a pupil of
Alberti. He was a Florentine by birth, but
studied at Rome, practicing first in the
city of Milan, and in the ducal dominions.

S. Maria della Pace in Rome(1506-1626)

chigi Chapel The altare maggiore in the main chapel
 MICHAEL ANGELO (1474-1564) A.D.
a famous Florentine sculptor, and painter of the roof of the Sistine
Chapel
in the Vatican (A.D. 1508), representing the Fall and Redemption
of
Mankind, also turned his attention, late in life, to architecture, but
reckless detail mars his work. He finished the Farnese Palace, and
carried
out the Dome of S. Peter
S. Peter, Rome The exterior, roughly executed in travertine, has an
immense order of Corinthian pilasters, 32 m

(1506-1626) high including entablature, with an attic 12 m high

surrounding the entire building.
S. Peter was recognized as a model of which
numberless churches were erected throughout Italy.

was the most important building erected in the period,

and many architects were engaged in it.
The interior

It has one gigantic order of Corinthian

pilasters, crowned with semicircular
barrel vaults, 45m high.
The walls are faced with plaster,
and colored to
imitate marble, producing a rich effect,
and the dome
is beautifully decorated in mosaic.