Italian

Renaissance
 Prelude:
“The Calamitous Fourteenth Century”
• The Black Death
• The Hundred Years’ War
• Fall of the Eastern Roman Empire
The Black Death:
a combination of
bubonic,
pneumonic, and
septicemic plague
A doctor’s robe for treating plague
victims

nose cone is filled with flowers and

herbs thought to filter out the
infectious agent
flagellants
Spread of the
Black Death
the Hundred
Years’ War

France vs.
England,
1337-1453
Fall of Constantinople 1453
Italian
Renaissance Petrarch’s house at Arqua
Italian Petrarch’s house: interior

Renaissance
coffered ceiling

painted frieze

heavy tile table

Italian
Renaissance
Petrarch’s study

sloping chimney

no hearth
Italian
Renaissance
Petrarch’s Study

bottle-glass windows

x-form chair with

mortise-and-tenon joinings
Italian
Renaissance

Florence
Italian dome by Brunelleschi

Renaissance
Duomo, Florence lantern

dome

drum
Italian
Renaissance

lantern
with flying buttresses

dome built 1420-1436

130 feet in diameter

Duomo, Florence
Italian
Renaissance

flying buttresses with volutes

Il Duomo, Florence: lantern

Italian
Renaissance
Il Duomo, Florence

between the inner and outer

domes
 also by Brunelleschi
Italian
Renaissance Ospedale degli innocente

Greek pediments

Roman arches

Corinthian
columns
Italian
Renaissance
Ospedale: classic proportions

based on the cube

Italian
Renaissance
Ospedale degli Innocente:
capital
Italian
Renaissance

della Robbia ceramics

with tin glaze

Cloister of the Church of San Lorenzo, Florence
Brunelleschi
Italian
Renaissance
Brunelleschi: cloister of
the Pazzi Chapel

drum, dome, lantern

Italian
Renaissance
Pazzi Chapel: plan
Pazzi Chapel Interior
Italian
Renaissance
Santa Maria Novella

upper façade by
Leon Baptiste Alberti, 1460

1246-1300

adapting the Greek Pediment to the Roman basilica

What is the Renaissance?
1. a new view of history

2. humanism—education for its

own sake

3. a new appreciation of nature

Italian Renaissance in Rome
Rafael, “School of Athens”
Plato and Aristotle, from
Rafael’s “School of
Athens”
Rafael, “School of Athens” Bramante? Rafael?
Italian Renaissance in
Rome
equilateral triangle
golden sections

Tempietto, Donato Bramante

Italian Renaissance in
Rome
Michelangelo Buonarotte, 1564

Donato Bramante, 1506

Plans for the new St. Peter’s

Italian Renaissance in
Rome

Dome of St. Peter’s

Michelangelo
Italian Renaissance in
Rome

Bramante’s plan

Michelangelo’s plan

Bernini’s plan for St. Peter’s, 1617

St. Peter’s as finished by Bernini
Inside the dome of
St. Peter’s
St. Peter’s basilica, Rome
Italian Renaissance:
City Life

Florence: loggia
Italian Renaissance:
City Life

Loggia in Florence
Italian Renaissance: City Life
Rome: City Hall

piano nobile
Stairway to Campidoglio, Rome
Italian Renaissance: City Life
Italian Renaissance: City Life

Garden with pavilion

Italian Renaissance:
City Life

heavy cornice

small windows on ground floor

Pallazzo of Rucellai, Alberti, 1458

Italian Renaissance: City Life
Italian Renaissance: City Life

palazzo: inner courtyard

Palazzo Strozzi

heavy cornice, horizontal banding, small windows

Italian Renaissance: Country
Life

Farm House by Andrea Palladio

Andrea Palladio, 1508-1580

• dramatic exterior motifs

• economical materials

• internal harmony and balance

Italian Renaissance: Country
Life
Villa Rotonda, summer house for Marius Capra
by Palladio

adapting the Greek pediment and columns to a private residence

Italian Renaissance: Country
Life
Italian Renaissance: Country
Life

Villa Rotonda plan

Italian Renaissance:
Country Life

Villa Rotonda, interior

Italian Renaissance: Country
Life
Italian Renaissance
Interiors

fireplace with sloped hood

lettiera

antecamera and camera

Italian Renaissance
Interiors
Italian Renaissance
Interiors

trompe l’oeil

Palazzo Davanzati
Italian Renaissance Interiors

cassapanca (wedding chest)

Italian Renaissance Interiors

sgabella
Italian Renaissance Interiors
dining party in central courtyard
observers on balconies
Italian Renaissance Interiors
a sala in 1474 Savonarola chair
Italian Renaissance
Interiors

Savonarola chair
Italian Renaissance Interiors

Perugian embroidery
Italian Renaissance Interiors

bottle-glass windows

the table between meals

Italian Renaissance
Interiors

the studiolo
Italian Renaissance
Interiors

eyeglasses
revolver
scissors
red and black ink

St. Jerome in his studiolo

Italian Renaissance
Interiors

studiolo with trompe l’oeil in marquetry

Francis I of France
and his court

slashed sleeves
Amboise
Amboise: the turrets and chimneys
Blois, with arcaded gallery
Blois—state chamber with secret panels
Chambord pavilions hyphens
 Chambord:
double helix staircase