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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

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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