Architecture In Renaissance Architecture

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The question can be interpreted in a very straightforward manner by stating that the architects on the renaissance were better at designing and constructing and subsequently became more popular and famous. Even though that was a big contributor to the success of the renaissance I do not believe in just that, I believe that it is up to the knowledge and interest of the general public and intellectual advancement through generations, which helps develop a major sense of aesthetics and interest in the world around them. Likewise what happens the in the surrounding environment like art, music, science etc. helped form famous renaissance architects and change their role and image. In fact at the time of the renaissance what had changed was the …show more content…

This is due to the fact that the Gothic architects and their architecture had a particular atmosphere of finality about it to the point from about 470 to 1520 that people got the impression that the decorative richness and realistic detail was literally being worked to death. In terms of architecture the initial changes involved decorative material. Regardless of the differences this acts as a major reason why the early stages of renaissance art outside Italy is hard to disentangle Gothic architecture. In fact the Italian Renaissance in Europe meant for artists an embellishment of an already rich decorative repertoire with motifs, shapes and figured adapted from another canon of taste. Likewise I believe that all human develop a sense of aesthetic, which is mostly formed by the atmosphere that surrounded their life. Nevertheless I also believe that humans are born and are created with a taste, which we all share. Such as in the case of modern interior design, designers follow at the base of their projects strict rules in regards to color pallets and materials in order to render the wanted aesthetic, give a room the wanted feeling and evoke feelings in the client and observers. If we take basic examples of colors in relation to our feelings. Red is warmth, Blue is cold, these two examples were obviously taken from our experiences as humans and developed to a point where we connected colors to feelings. I personally see the study of humans and humanism as very similar as I personally think that the objective was not very different. Renaissance architects were capable of finding harmony between the proportions of the human body and their architecture. Likewise there was surprisingly a proportion between architectural proportions and the renaissance pictorial device of perspective. In fact Piero della Francesca stated that perspective represents objects seen from afar in proportion

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