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Michelangelo’s Sculpture Renaissance Architecture
The Quattro Prigioni (see In place of the spectacular Gothic style,
p397), unfinished works Renaissance architects favored the rational,
intended for the tomb of orderly, human scale of Greek and Roman
Pope Julius II, illustrate buildings. The various stories of a palazzo
Michelangelo’s ideal of were designed according to Classical
liberating “the figure proportions and there was a widespread
imprisoned in the marble.”
revival in the use of Roman arches and
the Doric, Ionic, and Corinthian orders
of columns.
Palazzo Strozzi
(1489–1536) is a
Filippo Brunelleschi typical Florentine
In order to realize his building of the
design for the dome of period. Rusticated
Florence’s cathedral, stonework gives an
Brunelleschi devised impression of great
engineering techniques strength. Decorative
decades ahead of their time. detail is largely on
the upper stories
Lorenzo de’ above the fortress-
Medici (the like ground floor.
Magnificent) is
depicted as one
of the three
kings traveling
to Bethlehem.

The Spedale degli Innocenti, an
orphanage, was one of Brunelleschi’s first
buildings in Florence. Slender Corinthian
columns support a delicate arcade.

Humanism
Carpaccio’s painting
St. Augustine in his
The Medici Study (1502) is
emblem of thought to show
seven balls
appears on the Cardinal Bessarion
trappings of (c.1395–1472), one
Lorenzo’s horse. of the scholars who
revived interest in
Classical philosophy,
especially Plato.

1498 Savonarola 1513 Giovanni de’ 1532 Machiavelli’s book The Prince is
executed; Machiavelli Medici crowned published, five years after his death
secretary to ruling Pope Leo X 1530 Medici restored as
Council in Florence rulers of Florence
1475 1500 1525
1494 Italy invaded by Charles
1475 Birth of VIII of France. Florence 1512 Michelangelo
Michelangelo declared republic under completes Sistine
1483 Birth leadership of the religious Chapel ceiling
of Raphael fanatic Savonarola Niccolò
Machiavelli

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