renaissance-art-5-italian-cinquecento
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Cinquecento happened in the Rome of the popes. The 1/3 of XVI century is the triumph of harmony. The artistic capital city is moved from Florence to Rome, where the popes are the patrons and protectors of the artists, mainly Giulio II and Leo X. In the 2/3 of the XVI century there is an abandonment of the harmony, focusing in the decoration. It’s the beginning of Mannerism, that will triumph in Venice.
Donato Bramante: in his first works in Milan there is abundance in decoration, but later he went to Rome and has influence of classic architecture. Use of centralized plants covered with domes.
San Satiro: with decoration, well known by its trompe l'oeil in the interior. Trompe l'oeil is false architecture, painted architecture.
Santa Maria delle Grazie: here it’s the Last Supper of Leonardo da Vinci.
San Pietro in Montorio: he went to Rome, and is influenced by classical architecture. This is like a classic tholos, circular plant with tuscan columns, frieze, and dome. Symbolizes Pietro as the first fundament of Church, and also his martyrdom.
Cloister of Santa Maria della Pace: two levels, inferior with arches and superior with architrave. Four orders superimposed (tuscan, doric, jonic and corinthian).
San Pietro, Vatican: he did the first plane wasn’t developed. Greek cross plant with apses in the four arms, with a great dome, by Michelangelo. It had to be the center of Church, center of peregrination, and martyria, because the popes are buried there. When Bramante dies, many artists worked here. Rafael, Peruzzi, Sangallo, Michalangelo, and Maderno.
Baldassare Peruzzi: from roman school.
Villa Farnesina: perfect example of renaissance villa. The facades are of orange color, simple and harmonic. In the garden are celebrated important parties with princes, poets, artists, and popes.
Antonio da Sangallo: also worked in San Pietro, Vatican.
Palazzo Farnese: follows florentine models. Classic facade. With courtyard and interior gardens, and frescoes of classic topics.
Michelangelo Buonarroti: uses the elements with the purest classicism, system of proportions, but wants also to stand out the constructive lines. Worked in San Pietro, Vatican, and also in Piazza del Campidoglio.
Sagrestia Nuova of San Lorenzo: he considers the tomb as sculptoric work inside the architecture. Monumental scale. Tombs represents how life pass fast. Tombs of Giuliano and Lorenzo Médici.
Staircase of Laurentian Library: it is a staircase of three accesses with great dynamism, that allowed to solve the height difference. With central space for the pass.
Vignola: he is theoric and architect, pre baroque.
Villa Caprarola: pentagonal plant, with three levels. Aspect of fortress. With circular courtyard. In the interior there is an helical stair, and also a private chapel. There are paintings of mythological topic, gardens, fonts and ponds.
Villa Giulia: ordered by Julio III, it is outside Rome, it is a villa for the family. In the interior, in the gardens, is the Ninfeo, following the model of the hadrian villas. Use of caryatids. In the superior floor there are pilasters with a triumphal arch.
Church of the Gesù: one nave with open chapels in the sides, with dome. It is the first baroque. Use of giant order. The facade is done by Giacomo della Porta.
Sansovino: he worked in Venice.
Palazzo Corner: with a facade with open gallery.
Biblioteca Marciana: with two floors with superimposed orders, very well decorated.
Andrea Palladio: he combines very well materials and inspired himself by roman constructions. Great importance to the use of column, for decoration, to sustain, or in giant order. In XVIII the english architecture was very influenced by him, in the called palladianism.
Basilica Palladiana: one of the first constructions, the most important is the loggia, with the palladian window. The tower is called Tower Bissara.
Palazzo del Capitaniato: he introduces here the giant order.
Palazzo Chiericati: it has two heights of superimposed columns, being the lower doric and the ones up, jonic. It has statues in the roof.
Villa Capra: of centralized greek cross plant with jonic columns, and a great living room in the center with a dome.
Villa Foscari: the interior is well decorated with frescoes of mythological topic.
San Giorgio Maggiore: the facade is like a classic temple, with only one door and four columns. The best example of christian temple with classical appearance.
Chiesa del Redentore: rectangular plant, with a transept with three apses, with a great central dome. The facade has four tympanums. One nave with lateral chapels.
Music: Pavana I-VI by Luys Milan
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