ARCH 151 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Ancient Roman Architecture, Polymath, Palazzo Vecchio

• School: UW
• Department: Architecture
• Course: ARCH 151
• Professor: Kathryn Rogers Merlino

Document Summary

All diagrams taken from "slidesrenaissance. pdf" on the course canvas website. The word renaissance: french for rebirth, rebirth of culture, transition from middle ages to pre-modern period, 500 bce - 500 ce, rediscovery of science, art, culture. Europe before the renaissance: much more fractured into small city states, city state of florence, 1300 beginning of pre-renaissance period, what did it look like at the dawn of the 15th period, less stability and security. Italian renaissance: 1400-1550, neatly framed movement, 4 ways that people moved into the renaissance: economically, politically, intellectually, Florence: from the word for flowers, originally a military camp- evident in grid pattern of the middle of the city, two centers: city hall and the church. Main features of a renaissance palazzo: heavy corners, symmetrical fa ade, proportion, rounded windows, classical detailing- corinthian columns, coins, fine stonework, ground floor rustication, large scale, fortified feeling, open courtyard for light and air.