Renaissance architecture

Cosmo-Slotnick’s “Most Beautiful Building in the World” contest to build a ten million dollar skyscraper for the company. In winning the competition, Keating solidifies his fame in the architecture community, but also seals his fate as a second-hander because he took credit for Roark’s design. The design was classically ornate Renaissance, which Roark cannot stand, but the public adores. Many say that despite the fact that The Fountainhead was set in New York City, Chicago was the basis for the…

1400-1550, In Spain, art was a key part of the country, and there were two major artistic movements that took place: the Renaissance and the Plateresque. Many artists flourished, and the two movements played a big role in the success. The movements were very influential in architecture, poetry, and other forms of art during the time period in Spain. To be brief, the Renaissance was a movement that spread throughout Europe that eventually spread to Spain. It was a style that was mostly shown in…

Early Renaissance Art From the early fourteenth century to the end of the sixteenth century, the Italian Renaissance transformed art and brought about countless masterpieces in Italy. It can be seen in writings, sculptures, paintings, architecture, so on the new ideas that were transforming art. From artists such as Fra Angelico to sculptures like Donatello, this movement not only gave us beautiful pieces to admire today, but also rebirthed the entire art movement at this time. If we start…

The Renaissance is a phenomenon which is considered to be the beginning of the modern age. The literal meaning of the word is “Re-birth”, which is exactly what it was. It was a period of spiritual and cultural awakening for the whole of Middle East. It stretched over three centuries, from the 14th to the 17th. It is thought to have originated in Florence, Italy at the end of the 13th century but quickly spread to the whole of Europe. What started out as a cultural movement soon transformed into…

TRADITIONAL ARCHITECTURE VS MODERN ARCHITECTURE We are used to hear the word architecture is always accompanied by the word of art. As all the books of historical and private architecture references said the art triangle is: architecture, sculpture and painting. Architecture was on the top of the list, or the leader of Fine Arts so that's why it named by Romanian as a mother of the art. Architecture is not just a kind of the art because it grew up and formed as a scientific basis of social to…

Eclecticism Architecture has undergone many changes and developments throw different eras as a result of major movements that influenced architecture and fine art as well, example (Renaissance, Baroque, Rococo, and Neoclassical), and that paved the way for the appearance of various styles ancient and modern ones , Egyptian Architecture ,Sumerian Architecture , Early Irish Architecture , Minoan Architecture , Greek Architecture , Roman Architecture , Byzantine Architecture , Gothic Architecture ,…

Renaissance is the significant era in the cultural history of Europe, which came to replace the earlier Middle Ages and was before the Enlightenment. A distinctive feature of the Renaissance is the secular nature of culture and its humanism and anthropocentrism (i.e. the interest, first of all, to the man and his activities). It was also blooming the interest towards the ancient culture, it was as the ‘rebirth’ of the culture (Brotton). The term ‘Renaissance’ has found among the Italian…

growth of vernaculars. The spirit of renaissance was embodied by humanism. It involved the devoted and sympathetic study of mankind, thereby contrasting the theological devotion which was an aspect of the Dark Ages. In architecture, renaissance began to take effect in Florence, Italy during the 15th century. The shared attitudes at that particular time was that renaissance embodied a deep respect for local tradition and continuities; the notion that architecture was everyone’s concern, a source…

civilizations in the Renaissance. Some of the major achievements of the English civilizations were the world's banking and trading systems, they were invented by the british, (they invented Capitalism), and important cities founded or built by the British across the world including New York, Boston, Sydney, Mumbai, Hong Kong, Singapore, Vancouver. They also established parliamentary democracy. The civilizations in the Renaissance also accomplished a lot. One of the Renaissance…

Several religious movements and social movements as well as the rise of Christianity in this era, had a major effect on the world including the areas of architecture and design. The occurrence of these movements had a big impact and influence on design; The Great Schism and Protestant Reformation were some of the big movements of the late fourteenth century. These movements led to big changes in the Church doctrine that led to a mass affection in Europe. The architects respond to the changes…