History of Architecture
Handout 11
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ITALIAN GOTHIC

*Santa Maria del Fiore, Florence Cathedral, original plan by Arnolfo di Cambio 1296, built after 1357 under Francesco Talenti.
Palazzo Vecchio, Florence, 1299-c. 1315
 
 

EARLY ITALIAN RENAISSANCE ARCHITECTURE  (15TH CENTURY)

Filippo Brunelleschi 1377-1446

*Dome of Florence Cathedral, 1420-1450s (finished after his death)

Hospital of the Innocents (Foundling Hospital), Florence, begun c. 1419
Compare the Palace of Diocletian at Split

*San Lorenzo, Florence, 1421-25, 1441-1460s with Old Sacristy 1421-28
 

Michelozzo di Bartolommeo 1396-1472

*Palazzo Medici, Florence, begun 1446; Compare Roman houses
 

Leonbattista Alberti 1404-1472

*Palazzo Rucellai, Florence, 1455-70; Compare the Roman Colosseum

Facade of Santa Maria Novella, Florence, lower zone, 13th century, upper parts by Alberti, 1456-70

*San Andrea, Mantua, Begun 1472
Compare the Basilica of Maxentius and Constantine in the Roman Forum
 


HIGH RENAISSANCE ARCHITECTURE  (16TH CENTURY)


Donato Bramante  1444-1514

*Designs for St. Peter's, 1506
*St. Pietro in Montorio, Rome 1502

Palazzo Caprini, Rome, c. 1510
(Compare Palazzo Rucellai, Florence, 1455-70, by Alberti)

Cloister of Santa Maria della Pace
(Compare the courtyard of the Palazzo Medici)
 
 

Later 16th century

Michelangelo Buonarotti    1475-1564

San Lorenzo, Florence, 1519
Medici Chapel (New Sacristy) Florence, Begun 1520
(Compare San Lorenzo, Florence, 1421-25, 1441-1460s with Old Sacristy 1421-28 by Brunelleschi)

*Vestibule of Laurentian Library, Florence, Begun 1524, finished 1559

Piazza del Campidoglio, Rome, 1555

*Designs for St. Peter's, 1546-1564, plan, dome, west end, not completed until 1590, after his death
 

Andrea Palladio  1508-1580

*Villa Rotunda at Vicenza, 1560s (Compare the Roman Pantheon)

Palazzo della Ragione, the Basilica, Vicenza, begun 1546

*San Giorgio Maggiore, Venice, Begun 1566
(Compare facade of Santa Maria Novella, 1456-70,
San Andrea, Mantua, Begun 1472 by Alberti)


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