Italian Renaissance Architecture

Timeline

1. c. 1419–1490Florence · TuscanyBrunelleschi and Alberti established linear perspective and the application of classical orders in Florence, laying the theoretical and formal foundations of Renaissance architecture.
2. c. 1502–1510Vatican and Montorio, Rome · Papal StatesCommissioned by Pope Julius II, Bramante brought the centralized church plan and classical proportions to Renaissance architectural paradigm in the Tempietto and the rebuilding scheme for St. Peter's Basilica.
3. c. 1520–1600Italian Peninsula and Central European courts · ItalyRaphael, Michelangelo, and others inherited and transformed Bramante's tradition, and Renaissance architectural vocabulary spread through prints and the movement of architects to France, Spain, and elsewhere.