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Key Notions

Cupola

Martyrium

Pietra serena

Trecento

Quattrocento

Cinquecento

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Italy, 1503

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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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Santa Maria and Baptistry

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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 del Fiore Cathedral

Source: 7 Early High Late

Domes256 m Georgia Dome43,2 m Pantheon42 m Duomo31 m Hagia Sophia30,7 m Caracalla Bath14,5 m Tholos, Mycenae10,9 m Pazzi Chapel6,5 m Villa Rotunda

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Santa Maria del Fiore Cathedral, Dome1420-1436

Dome constructionvideo

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Foundling HospitalFlorence, 1419-1445

Source: 7 Early High Late

Pietra serena

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Foundling HospitalInner court and portico

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Pazzi ChapelFlorence, 1430-1461

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Santa Croce, Florence

Source: 4 Early High Late

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Santa Croce, Plan

Source: 4 Early High Late

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Pazzi Chapel: facade

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Pazzi Chapel: interior and plan

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Pazzi Chapel: inside and porch dome

Source: 10 Early High Late

Chapel video

Cupolas

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Santo Spirito ChurchFlorence, 1434-1482

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Santo Spirito ChurchDome

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Santo Spirito video

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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 NovellaFlorence, 1456-1470

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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

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Sant’Andrea: interior

Source: 8 Early High Late

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Donato Bramante

1444, Fermignano - 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 SatiroMilan, 1480-81: interior and plan

Photo by Abschied

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Santa Maria presso San SatiroMilan, 1480-81: interior and truth

Photo by AbschiedVideo of choir

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The TempiettoRome, 1502-1510

Tempietto video

Martyrium

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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

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Villa RotundaVicenza, 1566-71 (see plate 232)

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San Giorgio MaggioreVenice, 1566-1610 (see plate 290)

Source: 10 Early High Late

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San Giorgio Maggiore: facade

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