Analysis: The Pazzi Chapel

It rationalized the size of the human bodies and buildings according to the position they are in. Due to the converging lines of linear perspective, it directed the attention and emphasize onto Jesus Christ in the painting. Leonardo Da Vinci was one of the other most prominent Florentine painters that was influenced by Brunelleschi's discovery of perspective. An example of his masterpiece painting The Last Supper (1495-1498), Da Vinci composed a scene on the painting where Christ was surrounded by his twelve disciples in a room. Every single components of the painting emphasized one's attention directly on Christ's head right at the center of the composition.

This sculpture, known as “Pieta”, is still admired today in the present location of Peter’s Basilica in Vatican City. Another statue created by Michelangelo was created between the years of 1501 and 1504. Michelangelo had taken over sculpting the statue of “David”, after two earlier sculptors had abandoned the project. Shortly after being sculpted, “David”, had become the symbol of Florence. Instead of being installed in the Cathedral of Florence, as originally planned, “David”, was installed in front of the Palazzo Vecchio.

Consequently, this element of architecture has had a tremendous impact on the imagination of many generations of architects. The Pantheon has inspired Brunelleschi for the creation of the dome of the cathedral of Santa-Maria Del Fiore in Florence. The paper investigates the history of the creation of both objects and compares the architectural peculiarities of both buildings. The Pantheon

The most important manifestation of the Renaissance art and architecture is The Tempietto, which was designed by one of most renowned architect of the day, Donato d’Angelo Bramante in 1502. It’s funny how a small building such as The Tempietto could hold so much fascination. It stands to mark the crucifixion of St. Peter giving the message that the office of papacy began with St. Peter himself. The structure of this building entails a round dome which tells us that Bramante borrowed the idea from Early Christian tradition, bringing back the feel of the ancient round structures that had long been lost. The building brings to attention Bramante’s love for geometry.

The Sistine Chapel is not only one of the most recognizable sanctuaries in the world, but it is also considered the highmark of renaissance art (Szalay). The Sistine Chapel is located in the Apostolic Palace in Vatican City and was built in the 1470’s under Pope Sixtus IV (Szalay). Some scholars predict that the dimensions were copied from Solomon 's great temple in Jerusalem (Szalay). While viewers often overlook the chapel because of the rugged exterior appearance, the structures composing the building represent practices in Catholic history such as the Sala Regia built for papal gatherings (The Sistine Chapel). The building consists of three stories which each have an individualized function.

This essay will explore the significance of didactic design in the Early Christian (ca 300- 600) and Romanesque ( circa 800-1200 ) periods, as well as how their designs influenced and contribute to modern product design. Four designs from the Early Christian and Romanesque time periods will be discussed: The Apse in St Martin at Fuentidueña in Spain, the stained glass window known as Notre Dame de la Belle Verrière in Chartres Cathedral France, the Plate of Paternus and an Early Christian ring. Modern products will also be discussed to show their relationship with the medieval didactic designs, and how Early Christian and Romanesque design influenced them. The use of Didactic design was very useful in the medieval time, from discussing the

From 1100, begins a prosperous period for the stained glass. The first workshops moved to Chartres. Then Abbot Suger endows the Saint-Denis basilica, the first Gothic building, with a stained glass ornament. A Rhenish monk Theophilus, writing a book on the art of stained glass that will be the bedside book of master glassmakers to the present. The window

Saint Peter Basilica is located within Vatican City in Rome. The Designer and Architecture of this building is Donato Bramante, Michelangelo, Carlo Maderno and Gian Lorenzo Bernini. Saint Peter is a late Renaissance Church and it is also one of the largest Churches in the world. St. Peter is considered as the Holiest Catholic Church in Rome. Construction date began on 1506 and was completed on 1626.

The Virgin and Child with Saints Jerome and Francis by Pietro Perugino is an oil on wood painting depicting the Virgin Mary with Saints Jerome and Francis. This Early Renaissance altarpiece, dating from the years 1507-15, was commissioned from Perugino by Giovanni di Matteo Schiavone to be built in the church of Santa Maria de ' Servi, Perugia. The body’s of the six figures in the painting are in correct proportion and are very naturalistic. This is Stemming back to the Ancient Greek and Roman cultures that placed a high value on the faithful representation of the natural world and human body.

The designs & structure of this style was inspired by the medieval architecture (Figure.02). Though both styles begin with the term ‘Gothic’, each styles has its own significance. [Fig.01 – Saint Gatien’s Cathedral, Tours, France] [Fig.02 – St. Patrick’s Cathedral, Melbourne, Australia] There is a common public notion that both, gothic and gothic revival styles of architecture carry similar intentions behind their designs. But, in my point of view gothic revival style has been misinterpreted to be the same as the gothic style of architecture. While in reality, the intention behind the gothic revival style is to bring out more aesthetic values to buildings such as romanticism and

Architecture was the first movement to emerge from the Gothic era. The very first building to display Gothic features was Saint Denis in Paris renovated by Abbot Suger. He wanted his church to be a physical representation of Jerusalem filled with light and colour, and so, in 1140, Suger started to renovate his church. He started by enlarging the ambulatory, which is a walkway behind the altar, and replaced the rounded arches from the Romanesque style with pointed, angular arches. However, the first truly gothic construction was the choir of the church, built in 1144.

Piero della Francesca (Italian pronunciation: [ˈpjɛːro della franˈtʃeska] About this sound listen (help·info); c. 1415[1] – 12 October 1492) was an Italian painter of the Early Renaissance. As testified by Giorgio Vasari in his Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects, to contemporaries he was also known as a mathematician and geometer. Nowadays Piero della Francesca is chiefly appreciated for his art. His painting is characterized by its serene humanism, its use of geometric forms and perspective. His most famous work is the cycle of frescoes The History of the True Cross in the church of San Francesco in the Tuscan town of

The stained glass windows were made by artists in Chartres , Birmingham and Boston. The great rose window is a masterpiece of Charles Connickand measures 26 feet in

All three buildings have a dome. The architects who designed the Il Duomo di Firenze and the Jefferson memorial have stated that they looked to the Pantheon for inspiration. Filippo Brunelleschi the architect who designed the dome of the Il Duomo di Firenze travelled to Rome before construction began sometime during the beginning of the early 15th century. He also faced some technical issues as to how the dome would stand by itself without collapsing, and looked at the Pantheon to see how the Roman architects managed to accomplish this task.

When the Americans built the Capitol in 1791 they wanted to compliment the Romans work and by bringing it into the United States. Roman architecture is very distinctive looking. In almost every famous Roman building their are at least a couple columns, columns are detached or attached from the building in all Roman architecture. Ionic columns are the ones on the Capitol building and on the Colosseum are Roman Tuscan columns. If you compare the Colosseum that was build in 70 AD to the Capitol Building that was build in 1791, there is little to no difference in the style, size or structure in the building that were build thousands of years apart.