House and renovation
Architecture is inextricably linked with construction. After all, this is the building science section, styles in construction and their history. Architecture is a showcase of a given country or looking a bit deeper into the city and community. Architecture is part of the culture of a given community and …
Architecture of the Italian Province – Towns on the plains
Although they are far from uniform, settlements on the plains and coastal areas largely reflect the urban and economic development process of large cities. The major waves of settlement correspond to the changing fate of the city's merchants and the level of accumulation …
Architecture of the Italian Province – Towns on the hills
Architecture is not only about palaces and churches - it's worth taking a look, how local architecture developed, where and what was the spatial arrangement of small towns and agricultural estates, which are at least as great …
Architecture of Italy – 20th century
The ruthlessly modernist Art Nouveau style was a reaction to the nineteenth-century love of the past, whose shimmering and linear forms dominated architecture and design at the beginning of the new century. In Italy, secession was called Lo Stilo Liberty, and her …
Architecture of Italy – Neoclassicism
It is widely recognized, that the neoclassical style, which reacted against the exuberance of the late Baroque with a return to the basic principles of classical art, began in Rome in the mid-18th century. Before, however, at the beginning of the century, it has said against the baroque excesses …
Architecture of Italy – Baroque
Baroque was once considered the final phase of the Renaissance, because classically inspired forms were still used. However, despite the difficulties with precisely defining the moment of the beginning of a new era, the baroque is independent, separate style. Politically, its origins are inseparable …
Architecture of Italy – Late Renaissance and Mannerism
Decorative facades, characteristic of the Venetian Renaissance, were largely duplicated throughout northern Italy, especially in Donata Bramante's early projects (1444-1514) in Milan. They include: church of San Satiro. in which she was brilliantly embodied …
Architecture of Italy – Early Renaissance
In the architecture of northern Europe, the Gothic style was held firmly even in the 16th century, however, in Florence it was superseded by the classically inspired Renaissance style, which soon spread throughout Wiochy. Conquest of the rest of Europe by …
Architecture of Italy – Gothic period
Gothic style, placing great emphasis on light and verticality, also associated with the ogive, ribbed vault, a resistant arch and large tracery windows. he left France in the middle of the twelfth century, to become the dominant force of medieval architecture …
Architecture of Italy – Romanism
The emergence of Europe from the darkness of the early Middle Ages in the 10th and 11th centuries is associated in architecture with the Romanesque style, which in Italy draws abundantly from the country's own heritage. Features rarely found in other countries include attachment …