Brunelleschi’s design for the Florence Duomo. Perspective of Brunelleschi’s Santo Spirito, Firenze.

Brunelleschi’s design for the Florence Duomo

Perspective of Brunelleschi’s Santo Spirito, Firenze

Masaccio: the first painting using perspective

Classical Orders of Architecture

Right: Tuscan, Doric, Ionic,Corinthian & Composite.Below: Renaissance Orders•Renaissance Orders

Duomo of Siena

Details in the Siena Duomo of a stained glass window

Stained glass window details : The church of Orsanmichele, 1300's. Florence's most important commercial guilds financed the decoration

of the exterior.Each donated a sculpture of their guild's patron saint in fourteen separate niches. The three most wealthy guilds chose to create their sculptures in bronze, about ten times the cost of those in marble: the Guilds of the Wool Makers, the Merchants and the Bankers.

Window details of a building in Bologna

Palazzo

• compact and ornate building like a large town house

Ferrara

Ferrara: Palazzo dei Diamanti

Mantova

La Rotunda, outside Vicenza

• Architect: Andrea Palladio

Palazzo Altemps, Roma

• Notice the light effect

Whimsical German Renaissance architecture

An example of English Renaissance architecture

Dutch Renaissance in Harleem

Vienna. The medieval town is located around Stephansdom: Renaissance architecture, as seen here in

the courtyard of Backerstrasse ,clearly shows an Italian influence.

A palazzo

Palazzo Antinori, Florence

Built in 1461-1466

Blois, France- staircase

This design follows classical models, specifically Italian Renaissance palazzi.

An example of a modern Renaissance building

Typical styles of Renaissance architecture

Venetian Palazzi

Berlin Cathedral

Example of Renaissance dining chairs and table

Staircase Renaissance style

Blois

Chateau de Chambord

Chambord

Villandry, Loire Valley, France

Villandry

Perspective in the garden, Villandry

Villandry gardens