HIST-338 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Filippo Brunelleschi, Giovanni Boccaccio, Coluccio Salutati
28 Nov 2020
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The arts were hardly extinct in the middle ages they were certainly devoted to somewhat different aims. Ever since the rise of the great castles and cathedrals of the late twelfth and thirteenth centuries, architecture had been one of the dominant arts in europe. In the middle ages it was also an overwhelmingly public art form: It was an exaltation in stone: the first direct and overt challenge to gothic architectural style came with filippo. Brunelleschi (1377 1446), completed the cathedral of florence around 1420. He did away with gothic towers and pointed arches, stripped away unnecessary statuary, based his overall design on simple geometrical shapes. The overall effect is of a simpler and more harmonious gracefulness than a gothic cathedral, its use of domes and columns consciously evokes the architectural styles of the roman world. From brunelleschi"s revolt on, renaissance architect never looked back.
