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Florence Cathedral
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Santa Maria del Fiore/the Duomo/Florence cathedral, planned by Arnolfo di Cambio, 1294; dome devised
and supervised by Filippo Brunelleschi. Construction of dome 1420-36. Problems of centering, weight, and construction. Exemplifies Renaissance ideal of mathematics problem solving-divine order. |
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Church of San Lorenzo
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San Lorenzo church (plan), Filippo Brunelleschi, Florence, began 1418. Modular organization in plan. Revival of flattened roofed Roman/Romanesque basilica type instead of recent vaulted Gothic church interiors.
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Palazzo Medici
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Palazzo Medici, Michelozzo di Bartolomeo, Florence, begun 1446. Interest in public display, orderly façade, massive rustication, vast scale, courtyard. Building suggests shift from communal government of Florence by banking and merchant elite to the dominance of the Medici family (architecture as power). Model for later elite housing in Italy.
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Hospital of the Innocent
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Ospedale degli Innocenti (Foundling Hospital), Filippo Brunelleschi, Florence, 1419. Note arcade, use of classical orders, wall architecture, traditional cloister plan, plaques by Luca della Robbia. Consider relationship between Brunelleschi’s organization of the façade, the plan, and the buildings use of harboring unwanted children (hospital of the innocent ones).
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Palazzo Rucellai
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Palazzo Rucellai, Leon Battista Alberti, Florence, 1455-70.
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Leon Battista Alberti
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Alberti as a gentleman architect, an intellectual and author without Brunelleschi’s engineering skills and construction expertise .
Ten Books of Architecture (1443) was first architectural treatise written in Europe since antiquity. High use of classical elements, historical imagery, and geometry. |
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The Tempietto
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San Pietro in Montorio (the Tempietto), Donato Bramante, Rome, 1502. Ideal centralized form, three-dimensional composition, integration of dome and classical orders, an architecture of sculpture rather than surfaces.
Patrons: Queen Isabella & King Ferdinand of Spain. |
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Villa Rotunda
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Villa Rotunda, Andrea Palladio, Vicenza, 1560s.
Application of the Roman temple front to the design of the rural residences for Venice’s elite. |
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Andrea Palladio
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Four Books of Architecture (1570). Had idealized versions of his Villa designs.
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Chateau de Chambord
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Chateau de Chambord, Domenico da Cortona, Chambord, France, 1519-50. Renaissance principles of organization applied to a romantically depicted medieval castle as a symbol of change in France. Use of regularization in plan, overlay of classical ornament, and stair.
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Town of Pienza
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Town of Pienza, Pius II effort to rebuild his home village, begun 1459. Note creation of plaza inscribed with grid, cathedral, Palazzo Vescovile (bishop’s Palace), Palazzo Pubblico (town hall) and Piccolomini Palace (papal residence).
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Sforzinda
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Sforzinda, an ideal city discussed by Filarete in his treatise on architecture (1457-64).
Ideal city-nine sided polygon. |