Renaissance buildings
Symmetrical columned architecture
Renaissance buildings are structures built or designed in the architectural style that emerged in 15th-century Italy and spread across Europe over the following two centuries.
The style emphasized symmetry, proportion, and classical elements drawn from ancient Greek and Roman architecture—columns, domes, arches, and pediments.
The Renaissance buildings of Florence established principles that influenced Western architecture for centuries.
- St. Peter's BasilicaRome's principal Catholic church
- FlorenceTuscan capital city
- Vitruvian principlesRoman architectural design tenets
- stone masonryBuilding with cut rock
- symmetryInvariance under transformation
proportion · Florence Cathedral · humanism · marble carving · pediments · barrel vault · rustication · classical columns · brickwork · frescoes · arches · domes · coffered ceiling · grand staircase · courtyard garden · Brunelleschi · pilasters · fresco painting
Renaissance buildingsGothic buildings
Pointed-arch stone structures
Byzantine architecture · medieval architecture · Gothic architecture · medieval castles · modernist architecture
Renaissance buildingsGothic architecture
Medieval style with pointed arches
flying buttresses · pointed arches · Brutalism · verticality · asymmetrical design
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