ARCHITECTURAL RENAISSANCE ARCHITECTURE NEO-CLASSICAL ARCHITECTURE

ELEMENTS
The plans of Renaissance
buildings have a square,
symmetrical appearance in
which proportions are usually
based on a module. Within a
church the module is often the
width of an aisle. – The need
to integrate the design of the
plan with the façade was
introduced as an issue in the
work of Filippo Brunelleschi,
but he was never able to carry
this aspect of his work into
fruition. The first building to
demonstrate this was St.
Andrea in Mantua by Alberti.
– The development of the plan
in secular architecture was to
take place in the 16th century
and culminated with the work
of Palladio.

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RENAISSANCE Facade –
Façades are symmetrical
around their vertical axis.
Church facades are generally
surmounted by a pediment and
organized by a system of
pilasters, arches and
entablatures. The columns and
windows show a progression
towards the centre. – Domestic
buildings are often surmounted
by a cornice. There is a regular
repetition of openings on each
floor, and the centrally placed
door is marked by a feature
such as a balcony, or rusticated
surround. An early and much
copied prototype was the
façade for the Palazzo Rucellai
(1446 and 1451) in Florence
with its three registers of
pilasters.
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RENAISSANCE Columns
and Pilasters – The Roman
orders of columns are used:-
Tuscan, Doric, Ionic,
Corinthian and Composite. –
The orders can either be
structural, supporting an
arcade or architrave, or purely
decorative, set against a wall
in the form of pilasters. –
During the Renaissance,
architects aimed to use
columns, pilasters, and
entablatures as an integrated
system.
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Kedleston Hall, which mimics
a triumphal arch.
Ceilings – Roofs are fitted
with flat or coffered ceilings. –
They are not left open as in
Medieval architecture. – They
are frequently painted or
decorated.
Roofs are flat and horizontal
and often containing a
centered dome.
Door usually have square
lintels. – They may be set
within an arch or surmounted
by a triangular or segmental
pediment. – Openings that do
not have doors are usually
arched and frequently have a
large or decorative keystone
a doorway at the center of the
façade, capped with a
decorative lintel or with a
broken pediment; ornamental
elements usually surround the
door.
often a side-gabled roof,
hipped roof, or gambrel roof; a
moderate overhang at the
eaves or boxed eaves;
balustrades frequently located
just above the eaves.
Roofs are fitted with flat or
coffered ceilings. – They are
not left open as in Medieval
architecture. – They are
frequently painted or decorated
Renaissance Architecture • Berpizkundeko arkitektura An architectural style based primarily on the use of forms
XV.mendearen hasiera eta between the early 15th and early of Classical antiquity used in both public buildings and
17th centuries in different regions of Europe, in which there opulent homes; aspects of this style are imitative of the
was a conscious revival and development of certain earlier Classical Revival style (often called Early Classical
elements of Classical Greek and Roman thought and Revival) that was most popular from about 1770 to 1830;
material culture. • The Renaissance style places emphasis others are imitative of the Greek Revival style that was
on symmetry, proportion, geometry and the regularity of popular from about 1830 to 1850.
parts as they are demonstrated in the architecture of
Classical antiquity and in particular, the architecture of
Ancient Rome, of which many examples remained. •
Orderly arrangements of columns, pilasters and lintels, as
well as the use of semicircular arches, hemispherical
domes, niches and aedicules replaced the more complex
proportional systems and irregular profiles of medieval
buildings
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