Italian Renaissance & Baroque Architecture: Key Features
Italian Renaissance & Baroque Architecture
Schema H, restating the main front and back and turning it into a palace opened. Leaving half of the building and the main facade retranquecida by the side sections that become the main frame and an open porch that will be the main facade with 7 arches in the foreground, 5 arc second and 3 arc back: funnel system, the architect will make us move through the main shaft and forces us to reach the central hall. Dynamic Steering axles.
Precedents of this Plant
Villas recess XVI as the Farnesina across the Tiber (Baldasare Peruzzi, one of the authors of the squares of the contemporary Vatican Rafael) with U-shaped plan opens to the outside by a portico of arches. Mannerism in the floor and large windows and mezzanines and penthouses with smaller windows. Porch fitted.
Bernini made a bridge out of the piano nobile, which descends to the garden by ramps. Three stories of influence of the Farnese horizontal. His penthouse with a frieze and window decoration as well. The windows to illuminate the basement are a feature of Baroque. In the garden stands an obelisk, central facade enriched with an escalation of the arches in their 7 facade. Their bodies with overlapping sides are separated by entablature plants.
The windows at the top are attributed to Borromini for being different from the rest. The triple arches superimposed and overlapping of orders follows the scheme of arena (Tuscan-Ionic – Corinthian) background with the Farnese Palace and the courtyard of San Damaso.
Palazzo Farnese
Poor material, bricks. The project is two types of superimposed arcades and on the 3rd floor windows with corbels supported by animal heads and triglyphs.
Downstairs the material does not match the upper floors, stones work like padded, contrasting with the pilasters that articulate the smooth shafts and contrasts with the upper walls, a characteristic mannerism. The downstairs arches and keystones are medieval tradition. The Baroque note we have it in the highlight of the portal itself. Second floor has window ledges resting on lower pediments topped by rectangular and curved.
Farnese Palace is wedge-shaped voussoirs and inside the portico is supported by pillars.
In the Palace of Mantua have a noble floor balcony with the shield baroque Barberini. 3 bees forming a triangle, the emblem that appears in other works of Barberini, and will be an element that is repeated throughout the building, on the friezes and spandrels. You polychromy in materials and the last body has flared for windows and balcony broader sense.
Returning to the Barberini Borromonini window that separates the top is a cornice mixtilinear with the shell in the center and is supported by a suspension derived from Michelangelo’s St. Peter. The oval staircase with a handrail is also yours and basement with play of curves and counter-curves.
Sculpture: 16th-17th Centuries in Italy
It begins the period of fullness in the architecture as sculpture we find the influence of the Council of Trent, that influence will be felt a lot especially in the visual arts are encouraged because the artists realism because it had developed a mannerism art too fictional – a result of these demonstrations that will teach the faithful at the council recommended that the works are more realistic and have a fundamentally religious content, this will condition all the artists.
Basic Features
- Realism naturalistic models even people themselves, the picture becomes very important.