Renaissance
Architecture
Characteristics of Renaissance Architecture
• Simplicity
• Proportion
• Balance
Blind arch
String course
Eras of Renaissance Architecture
Early
Renaissance
ca. 1400 – 1500
High
Renaissance
ca. 1500 – 1525
Late
Renaissance
ca. 1525 – 1600
Brunelleschi
Alberti
Bramante
Da Sangallo
Michelangelo
Palladio
Filippo Brunelleschi
Leon Battista Alberti
Donato Bramante
Antonio da Sangallo
Rustication
Michelangelo
Andrea Palladio
Palladian Arch