ARCHITECTURE

Medieval

• Solid thick-walled

• Castles

• Tall, delicate cathedrals with spires pointing toward heaven 1300s

Renaissance 15th - early 17th c.

• Revival of Roman architecture

• Used Roman details• Added own principles• Began with

Brunelleschi in Florence

• Palaces• Numerous simple

windows

• Symmetrical arrangement of windows and doors

• Extensive use of Classical columns and pilasters

• Triangular pediments • Square lintels • Arches • Domes • Niches with sculptures

El Escorial

Wilton House, Salisbury

Tudor Style

Baroque – late 16th c. Italy

• Express the triumph of the Catholic Church

• Part of Counter-Reformation

• Accesses emotion

• Shows power and wealth of the Church

• Spread during 17th c.

Rococo (aka style of Louis XV) – 18th Century

• Emerged out of late baroque

• Excessive and exuberant decorations

• Often interiors• German and

Austrian Churches• Curves, scrolls,

shells, plants, intricate designs

Winter Palace (Hermitage)

Neoclassical mid-17th c, renewed 18th c. by founding of Pompeii

• Order, clarity• Greek and Roman

architecture• Imitation not

experimentation• Versailles• Rigid in 18th c.

culminating in Empire style of Napoleon

Neo-Gothic Began 1840s• England and America• Early stages fanciful• Revive medieval forms

in contrast to neoclassical

• Late 1800s research revealed weaknesses of earlier stages => attempt to integrate true Gothic style Parliament Hill, Ottowa

Greek Revival 1820s-1860

• Purification of classicism

• Popular after 1825• Newfound access

to Greece• Expression of

nationalism and civic virtue

Fonthill Abbey

Palazzo Chigo-Odelscalchi

Potsdam

Versailles

St. Paul’s Cathedral, London

During WWII and the Blitz

Wurzburg Residence, 1760

St. Peter’s

Trevi Fountain, Rome 1773

Bourse, Paris, 1808

Strasbroug Cathedral

Bremen Town Hall

House of Parliament, London

Wieskirche, pilgrimage church

Hluboká castleCzech Republic

Harlech Castle

Imaginary Catholic Town in 1440

Same Town in 1840

HÔtel de Marsilly