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    The document discusses Renaissance architecture in France and Spain. In France, Renaissance architecture first combined Gothic and Renaissance features in castles and chateaus. The Classical period was notable for dignity, sobriety and simplicity. The Late period saw more modest homes built with interior rooms planned independently. In Spain, the Early period was influenced by Moorish art and had a decorative, plateresque style. The Classical period adhered more to Italian Renaissance ideals through figures like Berruguete and Herrera. Baroque architecture then had a reactionary style of garlanded spirals and fantastic decorations.

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    The document discusses Renaissance architecture in France and Spain. In France, Renaissance architecture first combined Gothic and Renaissance features in castles and chateaus. The Classical period was notable for dignity, sobriety and simplicity. The Late period saw more modest homes built with interior rooms planned independently. In Spain, the Early period was influenced by Moorish art and had a decorative, plateresque style. The Classical period adhered more to Italian Renaissance ideals through figures like Berruguete and Herrera. Baroque architecture then had a reactionary style of garlanded spirals and fantastic decorations.

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    The document discusses Renaissance architecture in France and Spain. In France, Renaissance architecture first combined Gothic and Renaissance features in castles and chateaus. The Classical period was notable for dignity, sobriety and simplicity. The Late period saw more modest homes built with interior rooms planned independently. In Spain, the Early period was influenced by Moorish art and had a decorative, plateresque style. The Classical period adhered more to Italian Renaissance ideals through figures like Berruguete and Herrera. Baroque architecture then had a reactionary style of garlanded spirals and fantastic decorations.

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    RENAISSANCE ARCHITECTURE – DIGNITY, FORM, SYMMETRY

    RENAISSANCE ARCHITECTURE- REBIRTH

    RENAISSANCE ARCHITECTURE IN FRANCE

    EARLY PERIOD (1494-1589 TO 16TH CENTURY

    ❑Combinations of Gothic and Renaissance features

    ❑French Renaissance adapted Gothic features like flying buttresses and pinnacles

    ❑Principal building in France were castles

    ❑French Renaissance was influenced by traditional Gothic craftsmanship

    ❑Salient features are picturesqueness and a tendency to Gothic verticality

    ❑Early buildings in France were principally chateaux nobility

    ❑Influence of Rome was naturally less manifested in France

    CLASSICAL PERIOD (1589-1715 TO 17TH CENTURY)

    ❑Notable for the dignity, sobriety and masculine quality of its foremost Buildings.

    ❑Notable for clarity and simplicity of elements

    ❑Ornaments are coarse, vigorous and reasonably Restrained

    LATE PERIOD (1715-1830 TO 18TH CENTURY)

    ❑Particularly marked in Domestic planning and interior decoration.

    ❑Very many modest residences and town “hotels” were erected.

    ❑Room were planned for independent approach rather than in sequence

    ❑Double depth or deep squarish plans become normal

    ❑Internal corners of apartment were sometimes rounded

    ❑Except in church architecture, architecture became simpler and at the same time less classically pure
    BUILDINGS:

    1. CHATEAU DE BLOIS
    2. CHATEAU DE BURY
    3. CHATEAU DE CHAMBORD- FAMOUS IN LOIRE DISTRICT, DOMENICO DA CORTONA
    “BOCCADOR”, A PUPIL OF GIULIANO DA SANGALLO
    4. PALAIS DE FONTAINBLUE
    5. PALAIS DU LOUVRE- EXHIBITS A COMPLETE HISTORY OF PROGRESSIVE STAGES OF THE FRENCH
    RENAISSANCE
    6. PALAIS DU LUXEMBOURG- ERECTED FOR MARIE DE’ MEDICI BY SOLOMON DE BROSSE, BOLD
    AND SIMPLE STYLE WITH RUSTICATED GARDEN.
    7. CHATEUAX DE MAISONS- DESIGNED BY FRANCOIS MANSART

    RENAISSSANCE ARCHITECTURE IN SPAIN

    EARLY PERIOD OR THE PLATERESQUE STYLE ( 1495-1556)

    CLASSICAL PERIOD

    BAROQUE PERIOD OR THE CHURRIGUERESQUE STYLE (1650- 1750)

    EARLY PERIOD (1492-1556)- FALL OF GRANADA

    ❑was influenced by the Exuberant fancy of Moorish art & extremely florid

    ❑Silver Smith like quality of style with Gothic versions and decorative ornaments that are loosely
    related to the structure using wrought iron and metal.

    CLASSICAL PERIOD (1556-1650)

    ❑marked by the closer adherence to Italian Renaissance art.

    ❑this period is greatly influenced by two persons:

    ❑Alonzo Berruguete- a sculptor, also known as the “Spanish Donatello”

    ❑Juan de Herrera- notable architect who visited Flanders and Italy to take a more classical and austere
    turn

    BAROUQUE PERIOD

    ❑Characterized by the reaction from the correct and frigid formalism observed by Herrera and his
    followers.
    ❑sculpture style with a garlanded spiral column, and fantastic decorations known as the “Spanish
    Baroque”

    ANTIQUARIAN PERIOD- ❑Period where in architecture turned more and more towards

    ancient Classical Models.

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