History of Art and Architecture 11 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Sistine Chapel Ceiling, Filippo Brunelleschi, Ionic Order
18 Feb 2014
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Haa11 lectures 6/7: michelangelo and the medici chapel in florence, italy. Although there are some women architects today, gender equality is lacking, and in the renaissance there were no women architects. Michelangelo made paintings, sculptures, and architecture, flowing between the media. Florence is urban, dense, crowded; tight, inward-looking, compressed site (unlike ise and chaux) The location is a constraint that an architect has to work with. Brunelleschi made a church for the medici family as well as a cathedral. The medici family hired michelangelo to build a funerary chapel to honor many of their male ancestors. Brunelleschi created a very orderly, organized structure to the aisles and columns of the church (a grid related to the dimensions of the human body) Architecture is based on (vitruvius") ideal forms (square and circle) in relation to the ideal, unattainable human body (perfect proportions with respect to all sorts of body parts and an organic, tight relationship)
