Renaissance+Architects

Renaissance Architects and Architecture
//**__Content__**// Introduction //The Architects -Filippo Brunelleschi -Leone Battista Alberti// -Andrea Palladio

 //The Renaissance occured roughly between the 14th and 16th century, but// //there is no exact date to signify the begining of the Renaissance because// //it occured in many different places at many different times. The First place// //that the Renaissance is remembered is in Florence, Italy. Basically, the Renaissance// //began with people being interested in the past, which meant the Romans. They// //bagan to study works by the Romans, and adopted many Roman styles, but they// //also took the Romans work to another level. They used the Roman styles as a// //base, and put their own ideas into them, to make completely different art. They// //beagan to study the world around them in order to learn how everything works,// //instead of just looking, they studied and eventually understod. By doing this kind of in// //depth study, they learned how to do things better, discovered new things, and inveted// //tools to help themselves do these things. During the Renaissance people developed the// //bases for many things we use today, many of these things are exactly the same// //as they were when they were first used. The people responsible for these dicoveries and// //inventions are called Renaissance men. The renaissance man was concidered to be well// //rounded in a sense. They are known to have been masters of many subjects, not just// //one, which was popular with the Romans.// //One of the major topics concerned in the developmeant of the Renaissance, was// //architecture and the architects that discovered how to create it in ways the Romans// //never dreamed of.  __**The Architects**__ During the Renaissance there were major architects, a few of the most remembered and influential are Filippo Bruneleschi, Leone Battista Alberti and Andrea Palladio. These Renaissance men are remembered for their achitecture, but also for their influences on many other subjects.
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 * Filippo Brunelleschi**[[image:250px-Spedale_degli_Innocenti.JPG align="right"]]

Filippo Brunelleschi was born in 1377, and lived in Florence, Italy. Brunelleschi stated out as a goldsmith in Florence, but his interest in mathematics quickly lead him to architecture. He also experimented with engineering, ancient invented hydraulic machinery and elaborate clockwork, but none of these things survived. He also had a go at ship builfind, but this too, failed miserably. The first ship he built sank on its first voyage, along with a good part of Brunelleschis fortune. He was also regualrly kicked out of meeting when he first entered architecture as a job, but was saved from bankruptcy by the Medici's. Later he won a contest and was gieven the honor of building the Cathedral in Florence called The Santa Maria del Fiore. Brunelleschi is also credited with inventing one point linear perspective, which revolutionized painting forever. It alloed artists to create depth in their art work, and make it look realistic. Another one of Brunelleschis works is the childrens hoapital called The Ospedale delgi Innocenti, which is concidered to be the first actual Renaissance bulding. Brunelleschi died on April 15, 1446. He made a huge impact of architecture developing the concept of linear perspective.


 * Leone Battista Alberti**[[image:180px-Santa_Maria_Novella.jpg align="right"]]

Leone Battista Alberti was born on February 14, 1404 in Genoa, Italy. He was most definately a Renaissance man, he was an Italian painter, poet, linguist, philosopher, cryptographer, musician, architect and general renaissance polymath. When he was in his mid twenties he went on a tour of Europe and came down with an illness that resulted in partial memory loss. He then turned his focus from law to science and art. This is when he invented the Anemometer with the support from Leonardo Da Vinci's journel. He was also good friends with Brunelleschi.Some of Alberti's works in architecture are the restoration of the papal palace and then Roman aqueduct of Acqua Vergine. He designed the church of Sant'Andrea at Mantua, the celebrated church of San Francesco at Rimini, and the church of Santa Maria Novella in Florence. He also published an influentail work on architecture called De Re Aedificatoria, whic was translated into Italian, French, English and Spanish by the eighteenth century. Alberti died on April 25, 1472. He contributed to the development of architecture style in the renaissance. To many people he was the greatest architect ever.


 * Andrea Palladio**[[image:180px-Andrea_palladio_fourth_book_image.jpg align="right"]]

Andrea Palladio was born on November 30, 1508 in Italy. He is concudered to be the most influential man in the architectual world. In 1541 he went to Rome to study the ancient monuments, where alot of his inspiration came from. The Palladian style is named after him, which is a style that adheres to the classical Roman principals. He designed many churches, villas and palaces especially in Venice, where a number of his works are protected by The World Heritage Site The Palladian Villas of the Venito. His works include The Villa Godi in Lonedo, The Villa Pisina in Bagnolo, the refurbishment of the Basilica of Vicenza, Palazzo Chiericati, Villa Foscari, Villa Cornaro at the palace of Issepo De' Porti, Casa Antonini, Villa Badoer, Villa Emo, Villa Serego, San Francescho della Vigna, San Giorgio Maggiore, Villa Cagollo, Villa Pisani, Villa Capra "La Rotonda", the II Redentore, the Teatro Olimpico, and The Four Books of Architecture or Quattro Libri dell'Architectura. This book is still published today and most of his architectural works began construction between the years 1540 and 1580. Palladio died on August 19, 1580. His ideas and accomplishments are still used today to teach architecture.

__Works Cited__ wikipedia.org -http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filippo_Brunelleschi -http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leon_Battista_Alberti -http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrea_Palladio//