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Renaissance architecture in cities - Coggle Diagram
Renaissance architecture in cities
Florence
The interest in rustication in Florentine architecture of the fifteenth-century, as at the
Palazzo Medici in Florence
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Michelozzo di Bartolomeo,
Palazzo Medici, 1444
Large stones were expensive, costly to transport, and a
sign of status when left in their rough form.
The arches at the corner of the Palazzo Medici were originally open and offered a loggia onto the street.
Michelangelo designed the windows that were added to the palace in the sixteenth century.
Monastery of San Marco, Michelozzo di Bartolomeo,
Library, after 1438
The long, three-aisled space is divided by delicate Ionic columns, groin vaults by the sides, the central space is undivided and covered by a barrel vault
. The Palazzo della Signoria
great rusticated stone façade and tower were a dominant presence of the civic authority and political force
In the fourteenth and fi fteenth centuries, the Florentine
government was eager to show its increasing openness
The construction of the Loggia della Signoria (1374–82) for public ceremonies and the reception of
dignitaries
Benches around the loggia offered citizens a place to sit and watch
proceedings
Rome
Any use of the classical orders evoked the splendours of ancient Rome in the mind of an educated viewer. Roman ruins, along with coins and statues, were the physical remains of that ancient civiliza- tion and the tangible reminder of history.
Bramante, Cortile
del Belvedere, begun 1505
the Cortile del Belvedere connected the Vatican Palace with the Belvedere of Innocent VIII (elected pope in 1484) with its newly completed sculpture garden (completed 1506).
Casa dei Crescenzi
Rome, Italy, medieval house decorated with recycled Roman decorations
Roman
monuments
Arch of
Constantine
Pantheon
Colosseum
Porta Maggiore
Venice
In Venice, for example, rich and colourful materials used in patterns across the façade tied any new architecture in with local traditions
Use of glass which was a traditional Venetial craft = a lot of light inside
Scuola di
San Marco,1489
Pietro and Tullio Lombardo
the façade design, which would set a standard for architecture for other scuole
San Marco provided the
model for the lunettes along the upper storey and the rich use of
marble in pictorial and decorative patterns.
ancient architecture in the triangular and segmental arches over the windows on the first storey.
