Italian Architecture History

Introduction

In Italy, the clash and coexistence with classical antiquity, considered a national heritage, provided a broad basis for a uniform and stylistic evolution of general validity. So there was possibility of the rise of Renaissance art which preceded all other nations. the paper presents with the four different periods of history of the Italian architecture.

Italy 1200-1400

The “Pre-Renaissance" is Tuscan art between 1200 and 1400 centuries. The artists of the time (Giotto, Lorenzetti, Duccio, and Martini) operate a transition between primitive art and Byzantine style which was associated natural then to ancient Rome.

It was the movement of cultural renaissance, spurred by contact with the advanced forms of cultural expression and ' European Islam , especially in Andalusia and Sicily - particularly in the fields of advanced science and technology, philosophy, geography, architecture, art and craft- allowed the Latin world to move beyond cultural and economic troubles that had marked the so-called Dark Ages.

A salient feature of this Renaissance was, in addition to a revival of religious feeling that he found in Joachim of Fiore and Francis of Assisi the greatest exponents, even the appearance of the first University, from which the knowledge could be more widespread and organized. An essential first step in this direction was made ??by intellectuals from the acquisition of Latin masterpieces of thought Greek, Hebrew, Arabic, Persian and Indian, made ??possible by an exceptional piece, of which the best known is represented the Italian Gerard of Cremona (c. 1114-87), translator of 87 works of human non-Latin, including the Almagest, which remained for centuries in Europe, until the modern age, the sum of scientific knowledge (Sankovitch, 189).

Northern Europe 1400-1500

At the end of the fourteenth century the urban landscape of various Italian cities was renewed with important public buildings finishes, cobblestone streets and having been concluded belts walls.

In cities most recognized new projects would not occur but that existing buildings be renovated or expanded would be the main public use. One reason was that labor had become scarcer and more expensive. Previously, it had enjoyed a booming economic period, highlighting the city of Florence, but a century later the population had increased at that time was drastically reduced as a product terrible epidemics, bankruptcy and hunger.

This situation was the exception in the public works carried out by tyranny or by the restored papacy based in Rome, as well as construction of fortifications that now would ...