Architecture

of the Renaissance
When does the architecture of the Renaissance takes Place ?
MEDIEVAL

BAROQUE

MODERN
GHOTIC / NEO-CLASSICISM
PRE ROMANESQE RENAISSANCE
ROMANESQE ROMANTICISM

500 1000 1400 1600 1700 1900 2000

HIGH
RENAISSANCE MANNERISM
RENAISSANCE

1400 1500 1520 1600

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 A cultural revolution

San Giovanni Battista cathedral in Turin (Italy) Tempio Malatestiano by Leon Battista Alberti in Rimini (Italy)

The cultural revolution of the Renaissance began in Italy in the city

of Florence in the early 15th. It substituted itself to
Gothic architecture to return to the Antique architecture at the
apogee of all arts. The Renaissance artists were versatile, they
searched of the absolute knowledge. 3
 A cultural revolution

The Romanesque Baptistry at Florence Scuola Grande di San Marco, Venice. Dome of St. Peter's Basilica
Cathedral in Florence (Italy in Rome (Italy)

Architecture intellectualized and became thus a science in

itself and the architect is a synthesis person that must not only
master drawings, but also perspective, geometry and specific
language of architecture. 4
 Two figures of the Renaissance architecture
Filippo Brunelleschi (1377 1446)

Basilica San Lorenzo's

dome in Florence

Leon Battista Alberti (1404 1472)

Tempio Malatestiano

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 Influence in Europe

Castle in Sully sur Loire (France) Chenonceau castle in Touraine (France)

Cathedral in Berlin (Germany) Rumbeke Castle in Roulers (Belgium) New York Palace in
Budapest (Hungary)
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