ARTH 103 Lecture 14: ARTH 103 - OCT24
Document Summary
Renaissance as a period of cultural flowering and artistic creation but was also a time of warfare and non-stop conflict. These states also engaged in cultural competitions: siena cathedral, siena grand city-state in tuscany, decimated by the bubonic. Gothic style and a return to the classic mediterranean dome: italian architects regarded gothic flying buttresses as ugly makeshifts. Brunelleschi inserts vertical bricks at intervals to form interlocking pattern. Brunelleschi"s principles: it was well known for its stone masonry, which includes architectural elements of rustication and ashlars. 4: inner courtyard: has roots in the medieval cloisters that developed from roman peristyles and atriums, florentine government building, now known as palazzo vecchio, around 1500 florence just survived a period of violent political unrest. Church (place of martyrdom of early christian saints e. g. st. Roman emperor constantine: donato bramante (1444-1514, before he worked for julius ii in rome, tempietto, 1502.