Italian Renaissance Architecture

SAN LORENZO

 

INTRODUCTION

Title:San Lorenzo.

Architect:Brunelleschi.

Style: Renaissance.

Chronology and historical context: ‎1418-1470.

DESCRIPTION

It is a church that it is in Florencia.The materials used are stone and marble for construction.

The interior columns are of sandstone conglomerates.The ceiling decorated with gilded.

Brunelleschi created a Latin cross in lengthwise.There is a dome on the cruise and ribbed vaults in the roofs of the lateral naves.In the corridors there arches on columns.its function is regular cult.

It is Renaissance style because its author is of the Renaissance and the building meets the characteristics of renaissance.It is of style Quatrocento.The most important were Filippo Brunelleschi and Leon Battista Alberti.The Most important work of Alberti is the church of San Andres de Mantua.

CONCLUSION

This building remains a very distinctive style as the Renaissance, belongs to the stage of Quatrocentto.

I liked analyze this building because its interior has many details of the Renaissance.

And the author is a great architect,is Brunelleschi and one of the most important in this stage as Alberti.

Santa María Novella by Alberti

Name = Santa María Novella

Author = Leon Battista Alberti

Year = 1490

Style = Gothic-Renaissance

Location = Florence, Italy



INTRODUCTION


The front of the basilica was made by Alberti. The basilica is in Florence, Italy. The front of the basilica was end in the year 1490. The style of the basilica is gothic but the style of the front is renaissance



ANALYSIS


Alberti was a very important artist of the quattrocento some of his most important works were: palace of the Rucellai’s family and the the front of basilica of Santa María Novella. The quattrocento was an important period of time during the 1400’s this period of time started in Florence, Italy by the Medici’s family

CONCLUSION

In my opinion the front of the basilica is a very beautiful work of Alberti and is a good place to visit if you travel to Italy.

Dome of Florence

Name: The Dome of Florence

Author : Brunelleschi

Year : 1471

Style : Gothical - Renacentist 

Location : Florence

INTRODUCTION

Its name is The Dome Of Florence and it was designed by Brunelleschi . It was finiched in the year 1471 and its construction leasted 25 years .

ANALYSIS 

It is a part from a cathedral , the Cathedral of Florence and its materials were mainly by bricks , wood , stone and metal . 

It is from the phase of the Quattrocento (15th century ) you can notice it because of the harmony and proprortion between this period and the middle age . For example in this period they started using the lines used by ancinet Greeks and Romans and they added simple and proportionated elements .

also you can notice it because of the main fastors that made this kind of architecture important were the simplicity (they used very few decorative features), the open spaces (squares)and proportion.

It is an enormus dome , with some bricks in the ceiling in colour orange and some in white . In the inside of the dome there are many paintings of the Last Trial made by Vasari and Zuccaro, which are ones of the most biggest in the world . 

In other hand we had this dome divided by some bricks in white and some greens mixed with whites in its base , making diferent colours and very different from the others .

In the Cathedral we can apreciate a Latin Cross plan  , with 3 naves . It also have pointed arches .

We are talking about the principal doem , but we can see that are many chepels with more domes and different desing .

In the lower part there is a vault where many bishops were buried , but between 1965 and 1974it was discovere includedvault of Brunelleschi , and you can apreciate the value that they gave to him.

 The inside of its dome its illuminated by some big windows in circular form .

It function is a normal Cathedral , you can have mass and also visit it , and it is one of the most bigger Cathedrals in the world with a capability of  30.000 people .

Another peaces important from this period was the palace of the Rucellai family

CONCLUSION

This cathedral in my opinion is very beautiful and it is also impressive , because I could visit it in the past and I before it I hadn´t saw something like that , and I think that I was very lucky because many people haven´t been  there and are older than me , also I can say that there are more impressive monuments , so it is beautiful but if you are only going to do one trip in your life you should look another place maybe . So as I was saying it is fantastic and I recommend you to visit it , but maybe another place is better to you .