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Renaissance Architecture
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Architecture
Undergraduate 2
12/10/2011

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Loggia
Definition
often a galleryor corridor at ground level, sometimes higher, on the facade of a building and open to the air on one side, where it is supported by columns or pierced openings in the wall
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Lantern
Definition
in architecture, originally an openwork timber construction placed on top of abuilding to admit light and allow smoke to escape.
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Vitruvian Man
Definition

Leonardo DaVinci

The drawing is based on the correlations of ideal human proportions with geometry described[4] by the ancient Roman architectVitruvius in Book III of his treatise De Architectura. Vitruvius described the human figure as being the principal source of proportion among theClassical orders of architecture

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Linear Perspective
Definition
the appearance of things relative to one another as determined by their distance from the viewer
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Fortuna

(Fortune/chance)

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Hospital of Innocents

Where: Florence, Italy

Year: 1419-1427 CE

Architect: Filippo Brunelleschi

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Basilica of Santa Maria del Fiore

Where: Florence, Italy

Year: 1296-1434

Architect: Filippo Brunelleschi

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Tempietto, in the courtyard of St. Peter's in Montorio

Where:Rome, Italy

Year: 1500 C.E

Architect: Donato Bramante

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Tempio Malatestiano

Where: Rimini, Italy

Year: 1450 cE

architect: Leon Battista Alberti

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Title: On the Art of Building

Author: Leon Battista Alberti

Year: 1443-1452

Definition
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Title: The Prince

Author: Machiavelli

Year: written 1513 

pubished 1532

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Title: Timaeus

Author: Plato

Year: 4th century BC

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Invention of Printing Press (1440)
Definition

Johannes Gutenberg

helped spread ideas

increase literacy

 

guttenberg bible-spread religion

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Trompe-l'oeil (trump loy)
Definition
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stereotomy
Definition
 Craft of cutting and dressing complicated blocks of masonry such as those for an arch, vault, or spiral staircase.
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Teatro Olimpico (olympic Theatre)

Where: Vicenza, Italy

Year: 1580-1585

Architect: Andrea Palladio and Vincenzo Scamozzi

Definition
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Tuleries Palace and Garden

Where: Paris, France

Year: 1564

Architect: Philibert de l'Orme and Bernard Palissy

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Chateau d'Anet 

Where: Dreux, France

Year: 1552-1559

Architect: Philibert de l'Orme

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Title: pnerotomachia Poliphili

Venice, 1499

 

Definition
Main Characters : Poliphilo and Polia
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