Brunelleschis Dome

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Renaissance Architecture as the Pinnacle of Genius

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Brunelleschi 's Dome

Architecture is the evolution of beauty in the fourth dimension . Art has continuously been about the creation of something beautiful intrepid , and ingenious . Although there are many great art movements such as Baroque , Pop Art , Gothic , Avant-Guard , are more striking in architecture as that of the Renaissance era . With the Renaissance convalescence to beauty , the color combination and the presence of the classical nude incorporated into a lot

of the dycor , it is with the Renaissance art era that art history was witness to the best possible architecture . The following essay will seek to prove this point using the geniuses of the Renaissance period and using their works as examples of this thesis

The Renaissance took its cue from the elegant forms of architecture and beauty from the Greeks and Romans . The idea of symmetry and shapes and elegance are staple features in Renaissance architecture . Thus , a viewer can see a lot of Rome represented in the Renaissance architecture such as columns , pediments , arches and domes . It was through Vitruvius 's writings on architecture that inspired many Renaissance artists to embrace the Roman ideal of beauty , harmony , and symmetry (Architecture in Renaissance Italy paragraph one . This is Vitruvius 's idea of symmetry as is presented in Renaissance architecture and conceptualized by Vitruvius in the human body , The measurement pertaining to the body being designated by headlengths is emphasized by Vitruvius in this manner , For the human body is so designed by nature that the face , from the chin to the top of the forehead and the lowest roots of the hair , is a tenth part of the whole height the open hand from the wrist to the tip of the middle finger is just the same .The other members , too , have their own symmetrical proportions , and it was by employing them that the famous painters and sculptors of antiquity attained to great and endless renown (72

Some of the famous architects of the Renaissance era included Michelangelo , Brunelleschi , Battista Alberti and Palladio . Each had their own style and power to not only engineer great feats of architectural beauty but to also bring forth their vision of classical Roman design with symmetry as the focal point . Though Vitruvius speaks of symmetry his nature of the term also gives leeway , Therefore , since nature has designed the human body so that its members are duly proportioned to the frame as a whole , it appears that the ancients had good reason for their rule , that in perfect buildings the different members must be in exact symmetrical relations to the whole general scheme (73 . This is especially seen in Brunelleschi 's brilliant masterpiece the dome of the Florence Cathedral . Among Brunelleschi 's other major accomplishments and contributions to architecture is he renewal of the Doric , Ionic and Corinthian columns in their proper places . Another recognized accomplishment of Brunelleschi is his system of proportions although his...