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Renaissance Architecture
Or, The Conquest of Reality St. Lawrence, 9/23/2012
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Saturday, September 22, 2012 Course Outline
The Renaissance
Brunelleschi and his dome
Alberti
Bramante
Palladio
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Key Notions
-Cupola -Martyrium -Pietra serena -Trecento -Quattrocento -Cinquecento -Seicento
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Italy, 1400
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Filippo Brunelleschi
Florence, 1377-1446 • his father is a notary
• accepted in the Silk Guild in 1401 as a goldsmith
• he was also a clock-maker, a painter, an architect, a builder and an engineer
• first to experiment on linear perspective
• bridge between Gothic and Renaissance periods
• works: Duomo, Foundling Hopital, and Pazzi Chapel
Source: 10 Early High Late
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Brunelleschi (left) and Ghiberti (right), Sacrifice of Isaac
1401, Bronze relief, 53 x 43 cm, Museo Nazionale del Bargello, Florence
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Santa Maria and Baptistry
Source: 14 Early High Late
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Santa Maria del Fiore Cathedral
Source: 7 Early High Late
Domes 256 m Georgia Dome 43,2 m Pantheon 42 m Duomo 31 m Hagia Sophia 30,7 m Caracalla Bath 14,5 m Tholos, Mycenae 10,9 m Pazzi Chapel 6,5 m Villa Rotunda
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Santa Maria del Fiore Cathedral, Dome
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Foundling Hospital Florence, 1419-1445
Source: 7 Early High Late
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Foundling Hospital Inner court and portico
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Pazzi Chapel Florence, 1430-1461
Source: 4 Early High Late
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Pazzi Chapel: facade
Source: 4 & 11 Early High Late
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Pazzi Chapel: interior and plan
Source: 10 Early High Late
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Pazzi Chapel: inside and porch dome
Source: 10 Early High Late
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Santo Spirito Church Florence, 1434-1482
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Santo Spirito Church, Dome
Source: 12 Early High Late
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Leone Battista Alberti
1404, Genoa-1472, Rome • one of the first ‘Renaissance
men’
• a complete humanist: a painter, musician, architect, scholar, scientist, and athlete
• ‘Beauty is harmony.’
• Della Pittura, 1436
• Ten Books on Architecture, 1452
• works: Santa Maria Novella and Sant’Andrea
Source: 10 Early High Late
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Santa Maria Novella Florence, 1456-1470
Source: 7 Early High Late
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Santa Maria Novella: module
Source: 7 Early High Late
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Sant’Andrea, Mantua, 1470
Source: 5 &10 Early High Late
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Sant’Andrea: facade and plan
Source: 7 Early High Late
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Sant’Andrea: interior
Source: 8 Early High Late
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Donato Bramante
1444, Casteldurante - 1514, Rome • one of the most important
architects of the Renaissance
• he is ‘illiterate’
• leaves Milan in 1500 because of wars
• works: Tempietto and St. Peter’s
Source: 7 Early High Late
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Santa Maria presso San Satiro Milan, 1480-81: interior and plan
Photo by Abschied
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Santa Maria presso San Satiro Milan, 1480-81: interior and truth
Photo by Abschied
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The Tempietto Rome, 1502-1510
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Andrea Palladio
1508 - 1580, Padua • with Bramante, one of the
most influential architects of the Renaissance
• between 1545-47,visits Rome
• a member of the master masons of Vicenza
• Four Books on Architecture, 1570
• works: Villa Rotunda and San Giorgio Maggiore
Source: 9 Early High Late
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Villa Rotunda Vicenza, 1566-71 (see plate 232)
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San Giorgio Maggiore Venice, 1566-1610 (see plate 290)
Source: 10 Early High Late
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San Giorgio Maggiore: facade
Source: 7 Early High Late
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Suggested readings
-Gombrich, The Story of Art, 167-174; 215-219; 273-275; 331-350; 361-365 -Cleaver, Art, an Introduction, p. 180-222. -Fiero, The Humanistic Tradition, vol. 3. p. 51-53; 71-78. -Kleiner, Gardner’s Art through the Ages, p. 587-591; 598-600; 604-605; 619-620; 658-660
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Bibliography and Sources
1. Adams, Exploring the Humanities 2. Cleaver, Art, an Introduction 3. Fiero, The Humanistic Tradition, vol. 3 4. Gombrich, The Story of Art 5. Kleiner, Gardner’s Art through the Ages 6. Nuttgens, Histoire de l’architecture 7. University Laval Course Notes 8. web.tiscalinet.it 9. www.giuseppeborsoi.it 10. www.wikipedia.com 11. www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk 12. www.travel.webshots.com 13. www.flickr.com 14. www.cs.oberlin.ed