Italian Renaissance [1]
The Italian Renaissance style, popular in the United States between 1890 and 1935, is based on authentic Italian models.
Italian Villas in Europe
The Italian Villa style was the first Ontario style that broke from the architectural traditions of the first settlers and imitated the harmony and balance of Classical architecture found in Northern Italian villas.
Italianate houses have many of these features:
Low-pitched or flat roof
Balanced, symmetrical rectangular shape
Tall appearance, with 2, 3, or 4 stories
Wide, overhanging eaves with brackets and cornices
Square cupola ...
Italianate and Italian Villa (1850-1890)
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1840-1885
The Italianate, along with the Gothic Revival, emerged in the 1830s as part of the picturesque movement, ...
ITALIANATE (c.1850-c.1890)
Italian country villas were the model for the Italianate style, used in Vermont from the mid to late 1800s. Prominent architectural writers recommended the style for American country villas.
Italianate
The architectural style known as Italianate first began to appear in England in the 1840's. It was an inspiration from the Italian Renaissance that occurred through the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries.
Italianate
2-3.5 Stories
Inspired by rural Italy and introduced by way of England, the Italianate was a national style in the U.S. by the 1850s and immensely popular up to the Civil War.
Italianate
Italianate homes, which appeared in Midwest, East Coast, and San Francisco areas between 1850 and 1880, can be quite ornate despite their solid square shape.
Italian Renaissance
popular in 1800s-1920s. This is a revival architecture directly inspired by the great Renaissance houses of Italy.
Italian Villa: The Italian Villa house differs from other Italianate houses by having a tower, typically of square cross-section, as the tallest part of the house.
Italian cathedrals - Polychrome, defined forms, symmetric plan, domed crossing, free-standing towers ...
Italianate - An architectural style derived from the Italian villa architecture that became common in England in the Nineteenth Century and subsequently in Australia in the 1870s and 1880s.
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The families who governed rival cities in northern Italy in the 15th century-de Medici, Sforza, da Montefeltro, and others-had become wealthy enough through commerce to become patrons of the arts.
Italian painter, engineer, musician, and scientist. The most versatile genius of the Renaissance, Leonardo filled notebooks with engineering and scientific observations that were in some cases centuries ahead of their time.
Italian for bell tower, usually freestanding, but built near a church.
Canon
a set of rules, principles, or standards used to establish scales or proportions.
Italian Renaissance architects revived Roman architecture only. As Greece was ruled by the Ottoman Turks, it was not possible to study the ruins of Ancient Greek buildings.
Italian dowry chest, often enhanced with carved, gilt, inlaid or painted decoration.
Casters
Small wheels fastened to supporting legs of heavy furniture to facilitate movement. First used in early 19th century.
Italian machicolation: A machicolation which was corbelled out on a long brick projection descending down a third of the tower height forming ribs around the upper sections of towers and curtains, and joined at the top by semicircular arches.
(Italian): The Italian Renaissance architecture of the 16th century; also used for its 19th-century revival.CinquefoilA five-lobed opening.CistStone-lined or slab-built grave.
has FIG. 15. - Italian Renaissance Capital from S. Maria dei Miracoli, Venice.
piazza: an Italian public square; in 17th and 18th century England it came to denote a covered arcade surrounding a square.
pier: a mass of masonry serving as a vertical support. If cylindrical it is called a pillar or column.
campanile: Italian name for a bell tower, usually one that is detached from the main building.
Italian Renaissance
Walls: Smooth stone, rusticated stone (joints exaggerated
Hipped roof, low pitch or flat, symmetrical roof ...
cathedral (cattedrale or duomo in Italian; cathédrale in French; dom in German; catedral in Spanish) A church of any size or architectural style that serves as the headquarters of a bishop.
pall-mallPall-mall (from the French Paille-maille, and originally from the Italian pallamaglio, palla, ball, and maglio, mallet) is a game, rather like croquet, which led to the making of 'malls' in parks and gardens.
Classical Revival The Italian Renaissance or neoclassical movements in England and the United States in the nineteenth century that looked to the traditions of Greek and Roman antiquity.
Maria Novella at Florence, dating from the end of the century, varying so widely from any contemporary form of Gothic that their peculiarities must be assigned either to the friars themselves or to the influx of Italian personality.
It has previously been thought that the pietra dura work in Mughal architecture was an Italian introduction because Shah Jahan used some Italian examples of the technique in his palace in Delhi, ...
It claimed as its ancestors in the graphic arts such painters as the Italian Paolo Uccello, the British poet and artist William Blake, and the Frenchman Odilon Redon.
Despite continuing preeminence in Italy, the declining authority of the Papacy and the prestigious Italian families in its orbit may be measured against the rise of other European powers especially the kings of France and the thriving French ...
Sgraffito is Italian for "scratches", and the process is sometimes refered to rather disparagingly as "scratch work".
It is well known that the Ezra portrait is ultimately based on an Italian manuscript from the sixth century.
The Ionic column, or Ionic order, is historically classified by Italian architects, as one of three orders built by Greeks. Many structures are seen displaying Ionic columns, and examples are seen throughout the world.
modillion - from French and Italian, modiglione, from Latin, mutulus, from an Etruscan root meaning "to stand out.
Group of Italian impressionist painters who used a technique of 'spots' (macchie) of colour.
Bay, Nave of Lucca Cathedral
The Cathedral of St Martin (Italian Duomo) is a church in Lucca, Italy. It was begun in 1063 by Bishop Anselm (later Pope Alexander II). Of this structure, the great apse with its tall columnar arcade...
and ending pyramidally OCULUS: a circular opening in a wall or at the apex of a dome ONION DOME: a pointed, bulbous dome common in Russia, Eastern European, and Islamic architecture PALAZZO: a fortress-like, three-storied home during the Italian ...
Antebellum, Bungalow, Craftsman Bungalow, Greek Revival, Italianate, Neoclassical, Queen Anne, Tudor Revival
Roof Types
Gable, Hipped, Mansard, Shed, Saltbox, Pyramidal, Gambrel, Flat
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Rococo : A style originating in France, but utilized primarily in English and Italian cathedrals of the early 1700s, as well as in renovations of the period. Distinctively lighter in expression with an emphasis on smaller, more graceful motifs.
Belvedere - Belle vedere means beautiful view in Italian. A belvedere is an architectural feature on a roof, in a garden, or on a terrace, that affords a beautiful view.
(Illustration from A.J. Downing, The Architecture of Country Houses, 1850, showing a villa in the Italian style incorporating a campanile)
CAPITAL The top part of a column or pilaster. Its features are often determined by its classical order.
PALLADIAN WINDOW A three-part, round-arched window, named for the 15th century Italian architect Andreas Palladino, also known as a Venetian Window and common in the Georgian and Colonial Revival styles.
palladian Related to the buildings of the sixteenth-century Italian architect Andrea Palladio, or to the eighteenth-century English revival of his style.
Home Styles - The different characteristic of a home influenced by the homes of immigrants: English, French, German, Dutch, Spanish, Italians, and others.
Gothic Revival Colonial Floor Plans
Greek Revival Floor Plans
Italianate Floor Plans
Log Cabin Floor Plans
Mediterranean Floor Plans
Mission Floor Plans
Modern Floor Plans
Neoclassical Floor Plans
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There were a number of architectural styles during this era: Neoclassicism (1840-70), Gothic Revival (1840-1900 and later), Italianate (1870-1900), Second Empire (1855-1885), Romanesque Revival (1870-1900), Eastlake (1870-1890), ...
Originally the word Gothic was used by Italian Renaissance writers as a derogatory term for all art and architecture of the Middle Ages, which they regarded as comparable to the works of barbarian Goths.
piano nobile the main floor of a building where the most important rooms would be located: literally "noble storey" in Italian.
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