Talk:Renaissance architecture

Rules

This statement needs to be explained "In the Quattrocento, concepts of architectural order were explored and rules were formulated. The study of classical antiquity led in particular to the adoption of Classical detail and ornamentation" Without a definition and explanation of the rules the statement is meaningless. Giano 21:48, 18 April 2007 (UTC)

Foolishly put up too many FACs simutaneously! Too much work to do!Amandajm 07:09, 29 September 2007 (UTC)

Conflicting Information

"It seems certain, however, that while stylistically Gothic, in keeping with the building it surmounts, the dome is in fact structurally influenced by the great dome of Ancient Rome, which Brunelleschi could hardly have ignored in seeking a solution. This is the dome of the Pantheon, a circular temple, now a church.

"Inside the Pantheon's single-shell dome of brick and stone is coffering which greatly decreases the weight, while maintaining the strength of each individual stone."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renaissance_architecture

THE ABOVE WIKI LINKS TO THE FOLLOWING:

"The building is circular with a portico of three ranks of huge granite Corinthian columns (eight in the first rank and two groups of four behind) under a pediment opening into the rotunda, under a coffered, concrete dome, with a central opening (oculus) open to the sky. Almost two thousand years after it was built, the Pantheon's dome is still the world's largest unreinforced concrete dome."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pantheon,_Rome

Either the dome is unreinforced concrete, or it is brick and stone. Which is correct?

Thank you for pointing this error out. It should read either "concrete, brick and stone" or just "concrete". The concrete structure has brick, tufa and pumice set in it, with different composition it different heights. The lower levels of the dome, which are encased in the third tier of the wall, have tufa and bricks in the concrete. The levels which rise above the wall have tufa and pumice in the concrete. Amandajm (talk) 13:45, 20 September 2009 (UTC)

The spread of Renaissance architecture

The section on Renaissance architecture in countries other than Italy is not in alphabetical order, but that does not mean that it hasn't been put in order.

• NOTE: The dissemination of the Renaissance style throughout Europe did not take place in alphabetical order.

Would people please read, note the dates, think about the information contained and stop changing this.

Amandajm (talk) 03:22, 1 December 2013 (UTC)

Return of the pope

The date of the year that the pope arrived back in Rome and re-established the papal court is all that is necessary. The date at which he departed from Avignon has no bearing whatsoever on Renaissance architecture, which is the subject of this article. If a reader wants to know the details of those events in papal history, then they need to follow the links. Amandajm (talk) 08:20, 17 May 2014 (UTC)

Let me repeat: the precise date, to the day, that the Pope returned is irrelevant and a distraction. This event took place about thirty years before the first Renaissance architecture was built.

Secondly, saying that on a particular day a particular pope returned to Rome without mentioning the Avignon Papacy tells your reader nothing. He might have been visiting his mother in Montepulciano, or taking the sun on the Riviera.

In other words, your first change left the article with an apparently meaningless and unrelated bit of trivia. Unless the reader understood already why the pope was not in Rome.

Leave the precise date out of it. It is background to thirty years of re-establishment, before the era of this article begins.

Amandajm (talk) 23:02, 17 May 2014 (UTC)