ARCH 214bg Lecture 2: RENAISSANCE ARCHITECTURE Lecture 2
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The churches that existed here are the primary drawing card for the city; it can bring tourism and money with this. The king of spain was invited to come to rome. Idea is the bring rome back to the center of the rome; the circle shape also configures achilles" shield. He used perspective to locate the door of the mayor"s palace raised up the level to create a piano nobile. The buildings are splayed in but michelangelo calculated the angle of parallax. Michelangelo first put marcus aurelius statue in the center (now moved into a museum now) Colossal order goes from the ground all the way to the cornice (pilasters are not free standing but are engaged onto the wall); the second is inset; it has an elegance to it. He did this to give off a feeling of grandeur. St. john lateran was revised during the renaissance. Omphalos delphi was the inspiration of the pattern used on the plaza.
