Notes

• Renaissance


  Developed during the rebirth of classical art and learning in Europe
• Renaissance periods

  • Early Renaissance – accurate roman elements
  • High Renaissance or Proto-Baroque – Purist or Palladian, where Roman tradition was held in high respect (represented by Andrea Palladio)
  • Baroque – Architects worked with free knowledge
  • Rococo - Primarily French origin
• Classical Roman Orders of Architecture

  • Standardized by Renaissance Architects; Palladio,Vignola, Scamozzi & Chambers
• Architectural character

  • Symmetry
  • Proportion
  • Geometry
• St. Peter Cathedral

  Located in Vatican city
• Bramante


  First commissioned to design the cathedral
• Antonio da Sangallo


  The Younger architect
• Donatello Bramante


  Proposed a Greek cross plan
• Giuliano da Sangallo


  A student of Bramante, who designed the Pauline Chapel
• Fra Giocondo


  Strengthened the foundation
• Raphael Santi


  Proposed a Latin cross plan
• Baldassare Peruzzi


  Reverted to Greek cross
• Antonio da Sangallo


  Slightly altered plan
• Michelangelo Bounarotti


  Undertook the project at 72 years old and Greek-cross Plan and strengthen the Dome
• Giacomo della Porta


  Designed the cupola
• Domenico Fontana


  Completed the dome in 1590
• Vignola


  Added sided cupolas
• Carlo Maderna


  Lengthened nave to form Latin cross and built the gigantic façade
• Gian Lorenzo Bernini


  Added the Cathedra Petri, and the Bronze Baldaccino
• Leon Battista Alberti


  Wrote the book, "De Re Aedificatoria,"
• Andrea Palladio


  The four books of Architecture
• Brunelleschi


  The architect of The Dome of Florence Cathedral was his principal work
• Da Vignola


  Author of "The Five Orders of Architecture
• Michaelangelo Buonarotti


  A famous Florentine sculptor, and painter of the roof of the Sistine Chapel in Vatican
• Mannerism


  A reaction against the classical perfection of the High Renaissance
• Giorgio Vasari


  Architect of Uffizi Palace, Florence, Italy
• Baroque


  French word meaning bizarre, fantastic, or irregular
• Rococo


  French ROCAILLE meaning shell
• Versailles Palace

  Located in France
• Winter Palace of St. Petersburg

  Located in Russia
• Francesco Borromini


  Architect of the Sant'Agnese in Rome, Italy