Cinquecento

Habsburg Dynasty

1526

• Buda and Pest sacked by Turcs administration of the capital moves to Bratislava (Pressburg/Poszony)

• Habsburgs inherit Bohemian Lands and Hungary from the Jagellonians– Prague reached 60 thousand inhabitants– 1533 Ferdinand I of Habsburg makes Vienna his

principal residence

Habsburgs

• Ferdinand I• Anna = daughter

of Wladislaw II Jagiello and Anne de Foix; born in Buda

• Queen´s Anna Summerhouse „Belveder“

Perspective

• Bramante– Santa Maria presso San

Satiro, Milan, 1485

Perspective

• Palladio, Teatro Olimpico, Vicenza, 1560

Perspective

• Borromini– Palazzo Spada, Rome,

1632

Perspective and Symmetry

• Research of and Ideal, mid 15th c., Italy

Symmetry

• Bramante, Study for the Tempietto di San Pietro in Montorio, Rome, 1502

Symmetry

• Palladio, Villa Rotonda, Venetto, Italy, 1570

• Palladio, Vicenza, Basilica, loggia since 1549

• Belveder, Prague, Royal Garden – Built in two stages:– 1) Light arcades 1530´s by italian architects– 2) Upper floor by Wolmut in 1560´s

• Ball Game Hall, Prague, Royal Garden– Wolmut, 1560´s

Wolmut, Prague Castle, 1560 sOld Royal Palace, Assembly Hall St Vitus Cathedral, Organ Choir

Hvězda (Star) Hunting Lodge, Prague 1555

Specificity of the Bohemian Renaissance

• sgrafitto

• Schwarzenberg Palace, Prague, 1560 s

• Sgraffitto – corresponds to the Italian „rustication“

Florence, Palazzo Medici, 1460´s

Specificity of the Bohemian Renaissance

• gables