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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:
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
still water
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True Renaissance:
Belvedere Court, Rome (connects Vatican and Summer Residence)
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Three Sections of Pope Julius II 1503 - 1513
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)
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
Henri II and Diane de Poitiers, 1548 ( his mistress)
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Mannerism
Villa Lante, 1566 - 1573
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Diagonals
Rampe Douce
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Baroque Characterisitcs
Excessive scale and decoration, mythological and fantastical realms, theatrical effects, hedonistic and grotesque
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Villa d'Este 1560 - 1575
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
Association with hercules
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French Mannerism: Vaux-le- Vicomte, 1656 - 1661
Nicolas Fouquet (1615 0 1680) LE Notre was the designer
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French Baroque: Versailles, 1661 - 1713
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
Everything Subsidiary to the landscape
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Rococo
Applied pebblework and shells on surfaces
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Urban Theory
For without order there can be nothing commodious, graceful and noble
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Ideal Cities
``` 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
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
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True Renaissance:
Pizza della Santissima Annunziata, Florence and Place des Vosges, Paris
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Mannerist: Pizza del Campidoglio, Rome
Created for Pope Sixtus Z by Michaelkangelo on Capitoline Hill 1547
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Baroque: Pizza Del Popolo, Rome 1562 - 1589
Radiating and trident form from rond point, grand avenues extending to horizon and large scale
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Piazza San Pietro | Rome
``` 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" ```
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Baroque
Piazza San Pietro, Rome has a radiating trident point, grand avenues and large scale
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Reform of existing capitals
``` 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
extneions of Tuileries garden 1616
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Vocab
``` Grand avenues  Diagonals  Major civic spaces  Classical façades  Harmonized streetscapes  Punctuated by statuary and fountains ```
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Reflecting Rising Power of Monarchies
Military prowess, patrons commissioning public works, leaders transforming cities as symbols of power, status, wealth and porgress
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Feudialism Values
``` Supernatural  God at centre  Human misery  Birth  Arms  Splendour  Contemplative life  Faith ```
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Humanism Values
``` Natural  Man at centre  Human dignity  Achievement  Letters  Thrift  Active life  Reason ```
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Feudalism Form
``` Organic  Vertical: Earth connected to heaven and paradise  Natural expression of site and function  Man and nature in tension ```
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Humanism Form
``` Geometric  Horizontal: Horizon tied to earth and nature  Visual stability and order  Man in control of nature ```

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