PALACES AND VILLAS renaissance

1. PALACES AND VILLAS
RENAISSANCE ARCHITECTURE
NIKHITHA K

2. RENAISSANCE ARCHITECTURE
 Period between early 15th and early 17th century.
 Demonstrate a conscious revival and development
of
certain elements of ancient Greek and Roman
through a
material culture.

3. PHASES
 Historians often divide the renaissance in Italy into three phase :
 Early renaissance (ca 1400-1500)
 High renaissance (ca 1500-1525)
 Mannerism (ca 1520-1600)

4. EARLY RENAISSANCE
 Concepts of architectural order were explode
and rules were formulated.
 The study of classical antiquity led in particular
to the adoption of classical detail and
ornamentation.
 Filippo Brunelleschi was one of the foremost
architect and engineer of the Italian
renaissance.

5. HIGH RENAISSANCE
 During the high renaissance, concepts
derived from classical antiquity were
developed and used with greater surety.
 The most representative architect is Donato
Bramante .

6. MANNERISM
 During the mannerist period , architects
experimented with using architectural
forms to emphasis solid and spatial
relationships.
 The renaissance ideal of harmony gave
way to freer and more imaginative
rhythms.

7. PALACES
 During renaissance , wealthy individuals
owned magnificient palaces.
 Rise of succesfull merchant class along
with renewed appreciation for classical
architecture and design led to a demand
for grand private homes.
 The renaissance palazzo an elegant
resisdence build in a specific style first
emerged in Florence.

8. FLORENCE
 During the middle ages, wealthy Florentine families
lived in compounds consisting of clusters of
buildings.
 The compounds often included defensive towers ,
covered walkways over lokking the street, and
shops on the lower level.
 By mid-1400’s this design gave way to palazzo
style-a single tall building with four wings
surrounding a central courtyard.
 The façade was covered with roughly finished stone
and decorated with ornaments such as carved
mouling , the family court of arms ,or the patrons

9.  The palazzo was more private space than the medieval compound.
 The loggias faced the courtyard instead of the street,and the families living
quarters were located on the second floor away from the public areas.
 Because many Florentine palaces belonged to prosperous merchants , the ground
floor often featured store rooms and other spaces connected with families
commercial activities.
 The palazzo Rucellai ,built by Leon Batista Alberti, included raws of classical
columns on the façade.this became a popular feature in palace design.
 The palazzo strozzi built by Giuliano Da Sangallo introduced a symmetry of design
that influenced the placement of windows and other features and the arrangement
of rooms around the courtyard.

10. ROME AND VENICE
 Roman palaces evolved from medieval castles rather than from urban compounds
.
 As a result they were bulkier and contained less ornamentation than those in
Florence.
 The façade and walls of roman palaces had few openings and featured fortified
towers that suggested military strength.
 The layout of Roman palaces varied but often included two or more wings around
an open courtyard and rear loggias over looking extensive gardens .

11.  In the 1400’s ,gothic and
renaissance elements combined to
create a venetian palazzo style.
 Many of the Venice’s powerful
families admired ancient roman
culture and had close ties with the
roman nobility .
 For these reasons venitian palazzo
design borrowed heavily from the
roman style.

12. FRANCE
 Francis 1 invited Italian designers such
as the Venetian architect Sebastiano
Serlio,to his court.
 They applied Italian renaissance
principles to the French townhouse
style.
 The façade often decorated with
classical elements such as columns
,large door.

13. VILLAS
 In the 14th century , the Italian villa was a large country house.
 Some of these houses became increasingly centred around the pursuit of
entertainment and leisure , and in the process were remodelled.
 There was a new type of villa that was not connected to any working estate
but instead was situated just within or outside the city walls.
 Both type of villa were often surrounded by formal gardens.
 To supply the water to villa , to water the garden and to power the
fountains led them to prefer hillside locations with natural springs .

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