by mitopencourseware See the Architecture of Renaissance Rome Rome is famous for a lot of things. Yet, ask anybody to conjure up an image of the Italian capital and they're bound to tell you that the buildings are one of the most...

Credited with bringing Renaissance art and architecture to Britain, Inigo Jones’ career involved painting, theatrical design, and architecture. Being the first English classical architect, he followed in the tradition of Palladio, Serlio and Scamozzi...

The most prominent architect in Venice at the turn of the century, and a final holdout for classicism, Vincenzo Scamozzi represented the end of the Mannerist approach in northern Italy (Wittkower, 1980). At a time when aspects of the Baroque were starting...

Palladio was born in Padua, near Venice, in 1508, as Andrea di Pietro dalla Gondola. His early exposure to architecture came both as a stonemason and a craftsman of ornamentation, working in the studio of Giovanni di Giacomo in Pedemuro. Later influenced...

Philibert de L’Orme may have been the first Frenchman to achieve the stature of architect in the modern sense, but he was profoundly located in the sixteenth century. de L’Orme visited Italy to draw and measure antiquity carrying much of what he...