Italian renassaisance. Church San Lorenzo, Brunulleschi

Architectonic card:

Title/name: Church of San Lorenzo, Florence.
Author: Brunelleschi.
Year: 1422-1442
Style: Italian Renaissance architecture of Quattrocento.
Technique: It is a construction of stone with decoration of marble.
General description: It is a religious building of the Italian Quattrocento in which highlight the semi-circular arches and coffered ceilings.

INTRODUCTION

We are going to analyse the picture of the interior of a church. It is the Church of San Lorenzo, Florence. It was built by Brunelleschi. Brunelleschi was an Italian architect and sculptor he did some of the first masterpieces of the Renaissance architecture as for example the Sta María de las Flores Cathedral.
It was built between 1422 and 1442 so it is a construction of the Italian Renaissance architecture of Quattrocento.


ANALYSIS

The Italian Ranaissance was a revival of Classical Greek and Roman Culture.
It is a church from Florence built of stones and decorated of marble. It is inspired in the Santa Cruz basilica, a gothic cathedral. We can see that it has a very long plant of Latin cross, it is formed by three naves which are joined to lateral chapels. We can see semi-circular arches in the two sides. The apse looks like a square. Itn the photo, the light cross trought the glass.

Also, in this period highlighted:
Domes, for example in the Saint Peter's Basilica.
Columns
Triangular pediments and geometric desings for examplethe Basilica Santa María Novella
Longitudinal and central-plan.

Everything seem like perfect because during the Italian Renaissance architecture they used this methods:
Simplicity
Open, diphanous spaces
Proportion

The Quattrocento stayed during the 15th century, in Florence and their innovations were the harmony and proportion. The most important architest wre Brunelleschi, the arquitect of this church, Alberti, Ghiberti and Donatello
There were also other phases during the Renaissance:
The Trecento
The Cinquecento in which Rome became the artistic centre and
The Mannerism in which harmony and proportion wre abandoned.

CONCLUSION

In conclusion this Italian construction by Brunelleschi shous the harmony and the proportion. All looks like perfect and this church is one of the first that it starts a new period, the Renaissance.