HISTORY OF ARCHITECTURE 2 T I M E L I N E

1.Medieval Architecture
2.Romanesque Architecture
3.Gothic Architecture
4.Renaissance Architecture
5.Mesoamerican Architecture
6.Revivalism and Industrial Revolution (19th)
7.20thCentury Architecture
8.Modern and International Style
9.Contemporary Architecture

RENAISSANCE ARCHITECTURE
15th–18thCentury
•The “Rebirth” or “Revival” or “Born Again”
of Classical Arts (Greek and Roman)
depends on the form and purpose of the
building.
•Now applied to various types of buildings –
churches, chateau, domestic buildings,
villas, palaces

ARCHITECTURAL CHARACTER
Domes Walls
Vaults Doors
Ceilings Balusters
Arch Windows
Columns Balusters
Pilasters Parapets
 WALLS
•EXTERIOR
-Rusticated Ashlar
Masonry
-Basement to the Ground
•CORNER -Quoins
•INTERIOR
-Smoothed Plastered
Surfaces decorated with
Frescoes

Fresco
Is the method of painting in which color
VAULTS pigments are mixed solely with water and
then applied directly onto freshly laid lime-
Barrel or Semi-
plaster ground.
circular/
segmental on
DOORS
a square plan
Semicircular/ segmental/
(No Ribs)
triangular pediment with
square lintels. Openings
CEILINGS
without doors usually
Flat or coffered
arched and have a large
or painted
or decorative keystone.

ARCHES
WINDOWS
Semi Circular or Segmental
Paired within a semicircular arch. Used
triangular and segmental pediments often
used alternately.

PARAPETS WITH BALUSTERS

 ALTERNATING PEDIMENTS
Triangular and Segmental
NOTABLE PERSONS AND WORKS
•Filippo Bruneleschi
•Marcus Vitruvius Pollio
•Leonardo daVinci
•Leon Battista Alberti
•Michaelangelo
•Andrea Palladio
•Donatto Bramante
•Christopher Wren
FILIPPO BRUNELESCHI
FATHEROFRENAISSANCEARCHITECTURE
 Filippo Brunelleschi was one of the
leading architects and engineers of the
Italian Renaissance, and is best known for
his work on the Cathedral of Santa Maria
del Fiore (the Duomo) in Florence.
Considered as the first renaissance
architect and known for his discovery of
onepoint perspective.
FLORENCE CATHEDRAL
The project left unfinished also the Dome,
since in 1421only the frame (polygonal base)
had been erected. Two architects, Lorenzo
Ghiberti (1368-1445) and Filippo Brunelleschi
(1377-1446) won the competition although it
was the latter who actually built the dome,
showing a great mastery of technical
knowledge, in 1436.
VITRUVIUS
-Marcus Vitruvius Pollio was a Roman Military
engineer and architect
-who wrote De Architectura (On
Architecture)
DE ARCHITECTURA
THE10BOOKSONARCHITECTURE
Is a treatise on architecture written by the
Roman architect Vitruvius and dedicated to
his patron, the emperor Caesar Augustus as
a guide for building projects.
VITRUVIAN MAN
-Drawn by Leonardo da Vinci in 1490
-depicts a man in two superimposed
positions with his arms and legs apart and
inscribed in a circle and square.
-The Proportion of Human Body in relation to
building design and environment by
Vitruvius.
-Ideal body = 8 heads high
LEONARDO DAVINCI
-ITALIAN POLYMATH / RENAISSANCE ARTIST
-Father of palaeontology, ichnology, and
architecture
-Considered one of the greatest painters of
all time.
LEON BATTISTA ALBERTI
-Italian humanist, architect, and principal
initiator of Renaissance Art Theory.
-He is considered the prototype of the
Renaissance “universal man”.
MICHAELANGELO
Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni
was an Italian sculptor, painter, architect,
and poet of the High Renaissance who
exerted an unparalleled influence on the
development of Western art.
ANDREA PALLADIO
-Italian architect, regarded as the greatest
architect of 16th-century northern Italy. His
designs for palaces(palazzi)and villas,
notably the Villa Rotonda.
-Most Copied Architect.
DONATO BRAMANTE
 one of the greatest architects of the
Italian Renaissance
 was considered by his
contemporaries to have restored the
true principles of ancient
architecture, and is acknowledged
today as the founder of the High
Renaissance architectural style.

SAINT PETER’S SQUARE

 Redesigned by Gian Lorenzo Bernini
with colonnades and a red granite
Egyptian obelisk 25.50m tall originally
located in Heliopolis, Egypt

SAINT PAUL’S CATHEDRAL

 Located in London, England
designed by Sir Christopher
Wren6000 floor area with large
central space under dome for big
congregation.

TAAL BASILICA
 Basilica of Saint Martin of Tours
 Taal, Batangas
 Asia’s largest catholic church
 Renaissance Architecture

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