Renaissance, Baroque, Rococo Architecture

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Renaissance

• Includes Duomo, Italy (a cathedral).
• Campidoglio, Rome was built by Michael Angelo.
• Facade Architecture is a key piece of Renaissance architecture.
• Vicenza is the home of the Renaissance, with Andre Palladio as the architect.
• Theatro Olimpico was built with Arenes columns.
• The technique of Trompe l'oeil from Greece was used.
• Objects were made on an angle.
• Used frequently in painting to imitate a long hallway, creating a 3D effect.

Baroque

• Baroque captures moments and often sculpture is used.
• Louis XIV built Versailles surrounded by captured moment sculpture.
• Characterized with heavy and bulky decorative legs.
• Karlskirke features columns, reamers, and arches from Roman styles.

Rococo

• Feminine light is used due to feminine environment and growth.
• The cambro leg (animal leg) is a feminine element.
• Full of decoration is a key element.
• Spaces lead to the use of large chairs.

Neo-Classical

• A return to Hellenism.
• The Georgian house is an example.
• Greek alumni inspired leg designs that resemble classical style with a straight leg.

Characteristics of Interior Environment

• Every space and surface is filled with decorations to display wealth.
• Furniture makers used old styles out of proportion, often ugly.
• Fine Arts is art for art's sake, versus design, seeking objective aesthetics.
• Historicism and Eclecticism are in style, as they freely utilize forms from any period.
• Revivals of styles were varied, leading to varied styles becoming popular.
• Inspiration drawn from previous historical eras in both Western and non-Western civilizations.
• Gothia in England, Greek in Asia are examples

Egypt

• Serves as major inspiration in every design.
• The sun became the orientation of productivity.
• There was no moisture of bread molding.
• Dogs were considered gods in Egypt.
• The sun shines on each god beside the last (God of death) at different hours of the day.

Greece

• Buildings included paintings on walls, pottery, and people paintings.
• No single chair from Greece remains today due to weathering.
• Marble used for floors and walls.
• Aesop (author) were amazing storytellers.
• Columns were Doric, Ionic, or Corinthian style and have 3 different spaces including a capital.
• Surface were on walls, floors, ceilings, columns, etc.
• "Fluting" is carving cut on the shaft of columns (vertical lines)
• This makes it look skinnier and creates elegance
• Theater happened before literature in Greek cities.
• The sun moves east to west allowing the east theater to illuminate the actors.
• Beautiful views were behind some of the theaters, used for defense.
• The Greeks invented theaters but the Romans expanded them and kept Greek traditions.
• Background was use as a way to develop things of being better than nature being energetic.
• Athens includes a large use of marble temple of Nike (Victorians).
• Facade is the front/surface.
• Entasis is wider toward the middle and skinnier more to the top.

Beaux-Art

• Classical Architecture during Queen Victoria's reign in England.
• Victorian period was from1837-1901, during the Pre-Modern period of the late 19th to early 20th century.
• No interior designers existed yet; checkers were more common.
• Ethicthis includes different parts of Armsrenaissances/Reccoc chairtless.

Background: Early 20th Century

• The French Revolution (1789) had a political development with democracy and the concept of people.
• The Industrial Revolution (1760-1830) had scientific development and economic contribution.
• Trade, commerce, imperialism, and colonies contributed to wealth.
• Radical population growth occurred.
• Materialism and Romanticism were in mindsets.
• New structural/construction technologies were created.
• Missing traditional (classical beauty), ethnic/foreign/old aesthetics were popular in previous times.
• Historicism and Eclecticism were in style.
• Designers had freedom to utilize forms drawn from any period style.
• Revivals of styles occurred, and styles were varied.

Rome

• Carved chairs at theaters of Klismos Chair.
• Rome included the capital of Italy.
• Invented arches lulder openings I keystone locks in arch at top.
• Features the use of theaters.
• Included Arcade lungated arch Isequence of regular arches I repected.
• Roman Amphitheater (performerence Ifesthals).
• Colosseum, (more for gladiators).
• Piazza Navona (commotion center) Campo Sienna I lots of Space
• Early Christians are in Rome as there religion
• Roman Empie were developed in the Midereal times
• Romanesque-(horse shoe buck)
• Biganteen -Dome like structure Ipendant to support strutere (trangter) shape
• Includes Hagia Sophia
• Has a high ceiling Irecion guod above/18ce work (Atetic lislamic cochitectcre).
• Mosaics use marble with different colors.
• San Vitale Ravena has light pentelate creating yeller lights sroded windows.
• Yale libitury uses marble covering in walll unders.

Gothic

• Notredame is a famous Cathedra in Paris, blinding where lighter back then they are really dark now.
• Pointed arches (punting to god).
• Includes Rose windows -Cand series from bible.

Arts & Crafts Movement (1850s-1920 History)

• A "House of parliment was formed in Engand(IRaim).
• The movement failed due to the limited amount of artists.
• Auguste Pugin, John Ruskin, and William Morris were top leaders in England.
• John Ruskin was the most important.s
• Gothic architecture served as inspiration.
• University Museum, Oxford.
• William Morris created wall paper patterns, flowers/petal patterns, graphic designs, and The Red House.
• Broodley, C.F. Vaysey Windermere.
• Window/door Signature.
• "Longtinge Lexaggerated" was a significant treasure.
• Heart motif

Greene

• David B. Gamble House Pasadena.
• Exposed structure.
• Tiffany designed stained glass.
• Greene built everything (all arts and craft/decor) and a total designer.

Michael Thonet (1796-1871)

• He was a contemporary classic designer with a famous chair.
• Created the Vienna cafe chair through steaming of wood and creating a new chair.
• The characteristics of modern design include simplicity, function, total design/architectural style, and spaciousness.

Art Nouveau (1890-1910)

• Samuel Bing, Henry-Clement van de Velde, Hector Guimard, Victor Horta , Paul Hankar, and Louis Comfort Tiffany were key figures.
• Spread from England-America spread all to Europe.
• The name means new art.
• Arts and craft designers believed in factory machines.
• Art nouveau used more of themachine.
• Samuel opened the shop in Paris called Maison de L'Art nouveau (1896).
• Inspiration from woodblock art was used.
• Musee horta now are a museum (famuskall is used).
• Curve architecture in design to flow with nature because they ate not straight lines to notere in general
• Symmetry.
• Includes openness and spaciousness.
• Used details in gardrails.
• Includes stained glass is used in total design.
• Maison Brufort from 1902 Brussels /waffles, checciate. pomme frites- Bligim way of saying fires (pomme vegtable of earth).
• Maison Saint-Cyr, Eustave Strawen, Brussells 1903.
• Art nouveau only used natural curves .
• More straight line design in the architeture (Created there ain fent .

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