ARTH-UA 601 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Palazzo Del Te, Donato Bramante, Pilaster
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High renaissance: three dimensional quality to spaces in buildings, bramante carries on methods that alberti used, classic architecture forms, ratios and proportions. Plan is changed to the latin cross, place for mass gatherings and pilgrimages. Nave is extended which creates problems for the dome. Image of an oval: rather than the stability of the square and sphere, the form of the oval suggests the pulling in of the energy, the wings are somewhat indicate by the irregularity of the buildings around. Wings move out which makes the main building seem further away than it is. One reaches the main building faster than one expected. Emotional engagement of the building/re ection of the instability of the catholic church. No, it is intended by the design: dropped triglyph (disruption, the mannerist period is when the rules of renaissance are understood but broken, and artists develop their signature manner.