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1
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Renaissance Means

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Rebirht

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1453

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Fall of the Constantople to Ottoman Turks

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1454

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Invention of the printing press by Johannes Gutenburg

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1492

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Reconquista completed and Moors driven from Spain

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1492

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Columbus “discovers” America

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1517

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Martin Luther begins Protestant Reformation, followed by Catholic Counter Reformation

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What is the measure of all things?

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Man as the measure of all things

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Italian Ren

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1425 until the end of 1600s

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French Ren

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mid 1400s till the 1790s

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English Ren

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1490 - 1690

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Northern and Spanish Ren

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1500 to the end of 1700s

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Eastern European Ren

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Mid 1500s to end of 1700s

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Latin America and Beyond

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With Colonialism

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Pre Renaissance

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Medieval and Renaissance transition

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True Renaissance

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Pure and static classicism

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Mannerism

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Emotionally drawn into design and dynamism ( circle to an oval)

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Baroque

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Immense scale and embellishment, awe, fear, mystery and fantasy

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Rococo

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Exuberant embellishment

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Design Principles: Function

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Civic and Private space

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Design Principles: Form

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Int - Ext connection, symmetry and axiality, stylistic genre, scale, radial, regional expression, geometric form, aesthetic harmony

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Design Principles: Social Context

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Iconography and symbolism of Power

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Design Principles: Environmental Context

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None

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23
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Model of Garden Design

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Platonic Academy

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Pre Renaissance:

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Villa de medici, Fiesole by Cosimo de medici and Lorenzo the Magnificent. The principles were proportion, balance, harmony, hillside site, view, sun and clean water

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French Pre Renaissance:

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Loire Valley: Blois od Louis XII, 1462 - 1515 the French Style: flat terraceswith verticality of sculpture and fountains; bosquet; and parterre de broderie

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Tapis Vert

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still water

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True Renaissance:

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Belvedere Court, Rome (connects Vatican and Summer Residence)

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Three Sections of Pope Julius II 1503 - 1513

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upper terrace garden, monumental staircase, and lower stage like area (Theatre, gallery and natural contemplation)

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Palladian Architecture (Andrea Palladio 1508 - 1580)

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Wrote the four books of Architecture and created the perfect house known as Villa Rotunda, 1565 - 1569 Vicenza countryside

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French Renaissance

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Henri II and Diane de Poitiers, 1548 ( his mistress)

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Mannerism

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Villa Lante, 1566 - 1573

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Diagonals

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Rampe Douce

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Baroque Characterisitcs

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Excessive scale and decoration, mythological and fantastical realms, theatrical effects, hedonistic and grotesque

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Villa d’Este 1560 - 1575

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Created by Pirro Ligorio which was so large the valley had to be widened and adjacent town destoryed, uses of water were pools, automata, fountain,s cascades and plethora of artwork.

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Villa d’Este: Iconographics

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Association with hercules

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French Mannerism: Vaux-le- Vicomte, 1656 - 1661

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Nicolas Fouquet (1615 0 1680) LE Notre was the designer

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French Baroque: Versailles, 1661 - 1713

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Louis the 14th the Sun Kind, 30 years, 13km axis and remote sites Clagny, marly, petit, trianon, and townsite

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Iconography to the sun King

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Everything Subsidiary to the landscape

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Rococo

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Applied pebblework and shells on surfaces

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Urban Theory

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For without order there can be nothing commodious, graceful and noble

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Ideal Cities

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Palma Nova (1593- 1623), Circle and heliocentric world
view with Copernicus‘
observations; and
 Square of humankind
 Central functions (church and
palace) reflect humanistic
society where secular and
sacred are equal
 Sanitation objectives in face of
Medieval epidemics
 Theoretical guidelines to real
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Pre Renaissance: Pizza del Duomo, Pisa 1063- 1268

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Refinement of Medieval form, spatial unification begins to emerge and symolizes a spiritual jounrey from baptism to life in Church to tower point heaven ward

43
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True Renaissance:

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Pizza della Santissima Annunziata, Florence and Place des Vosges, Paris

44
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Mannerist: Pizza del Campidoglio, Rome

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Created for Pope Sixtus Z by Michaelkangelo on Capitoline Hill 1547

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Baroque: Pizza Del Popolo, Rome 1562 - 1589

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Radiating and trident form from rond point, grand avenues extending to horizon and large scale

46
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Piazza San Pietro

Rome

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Many designers over 16th
and 17th centuries with
Bernini as principal
designer 1556-1567
 East-west with sequence
of spaces from profane
to the sacred (right to
the altar)
 Gathering of masses of
people
 "Mother Church"
47
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Baroque

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Piazza San Pietro, Rome has a radiating trident point, grand avenues and large scale

48
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Reform of existing capitals

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Rome and
Pope Sixtus V
 Grand avenues
connecting seven
pilgrim churches,
obelisks, and gates
 Symbol of centrality of
Roman Catholic
Church and victory
over Africa and Asia
 Water to new areas of
city with landmark
fountains
 New civic buildings
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Transformation: Garden into City Form

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extneions of Tuileries garden 1616

50
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Vocab

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Grand avenues
 Diagonals
 Major civic
spaces
 Classical façades
 Harmonized
streetscapes
 Punctuated by
statuary and
fountains
51
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Reflecting Rising Power of Monarchies

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Military prowess, patrons commissioning public works,
leaders transforming cities as symbols of power,
status, wealth and porgress

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Feudialism Values

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Supernatural
 God at centre
 Human misery
 Birth
 Arms
 Splendour
 Contemplative life
 Faith
53
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Humanism Values

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Natural
 Man at centre
 Human dignity
 Achievement
 Letters
 Thrift
 Active life
 Reason
54
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Feudalism Form

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Organic
 Vertical:
Earth connected to
heaven and paradise
 Natural expression
of site and function
 Man and nature in
tension
55
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Humanism Form

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Geometric
 Horizontal:
Horizon tied to earth and
nature
 Visual stability and order
 Man in control of nature

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