Renaissance Architecture

Renaissance architecture spanned from 1350 to 1500 A.D. around different parts of Europe. In this period geometry was commonly used in the construction of buildings. Symmetry and proportion were both commonly used to produce a more regular look, then some past styles. This geometry can be seen with the arches, columns, domes, pilasters, and lintels. A very proportional and symmetric building is the Santa Maria Novella, found in Italy, seen below.

Some basic characteristics of this architecture are windows paired with semi-circular arches, doors with square lintels, and opening without doors would be arched(seen below in the Spedale degli Innocenti), roofs fitted with flat ceilings, moldings and decorations common on the exterior of buildings, and the common use of arches, columns, domes, pilasters, and lintels throughout the structures. The Roman orders of columns was used in Renaissance architecture, this can be seen below: