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Running Head : Architecture in the Renaissance Era

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The period between the early 15th and the early 17th Centuries heralded the conscious revival and development of certain elements of classical Roman and Greek though and material culture . Renaissance Architecture was born out of this resurgence of classical contemplation and culture Fillipo Brunelleschi blazed the trail as a trendsetter in Florence Italy from where the Renaissance style of architecture quickly spread to other Italian cities . From there , it spread to France , Germany England , Russia

and other parts of Europe . The Renaissance approach to architecture is characterized by an emphasis on symmetry , proportion geometry and the regularity of parts as expressed in the architecture of classical ancient Rome of which many visible examples existed (Hale 1971

The underlying feature of Brunelleschi work was . In the early 1400 's he observed that the buildings remaining among the ruins of ancient Rome appeared to respect a simple mathematical in a way that Gothic buildings did not . From this observation came a desire for symmetry and careful proportion (Howard , 1993

The result was that in Brunelleschi buildings as a whole and all their subsidiary details , each has a fixed relationship . Each part in proportion to the next and the architectural features define exactly what those rules of proportion are (Sir , Banister , 1896 , Brunelleschi architectural works include the brick done which covers the central space over Florence 's Cathedral , designed by Arnolfo di Cambia in the 14th Century but left...