Renaissance Architecture

spiritual rebirth Architecture Between 1400 and 1600 AD classical ideas of an age of change took place in Italy and northern Europe. This period was called The Renaissance which means natural anew in French. Renaissance architecture was inspired by the architecture of classic/ancient Greece and Rome. Before Gothic architecture was very a even and complex. The renaissance architecture was highly symmetrical and very proportioned.Features Of Renaissance Buildings symmetrical arrangement of windows and doors use of classical columns and pilasters triangular pediments square lintel arches domes niches with sculptures grand Renaissance Architects Giacomo da Vignola Andrea Palladio Fillipo Brunelleschi Michelangelo Buonarroti Examples Of Renaissance Buildings The San Gio Rigo Maggiore in Venice is an example for an renaissance building. the Redentore in Venice the basilica in Vicenza the rotunda near Vicenza the Louvre in Paris The Phases Of Renaissance For more than five centurie s, artists in northern Italy were exploring new Ideas during the beginning of the beforehand(predicate) 1500s, Italy saw an explosion of talent and innovation. This period is called The High Renaissance during the contiguous century renaissance ideas spread through northern Europe, slowly substitute the former Gothic approaches to art and architecture.During the 1600s renaissance ideas developed into heavily ornamented churrigueresco style. Even after the renaissance period ended architects were inspired by renaissance ideas. In the 1700s and early 1800s, fashionable architects knowing stately neo classical buildings. A century later, American architects like Richard Morris hunt designed grand renaissance revival style homes that resembled villas and palaces from renaissance Italy. Benny Opoku-Arthur Langston Beckford-Uibel