Renaissance Architecture

3 units

The modern concept of the architect as creator and genius began with Filippo Brunelleschi, the great innovator of fifteenth-century Florentine art. The course explores the spread of architecture and architectural theory as it begins in the hands of the innovator and is expressed and changed by other men of genius such as Leon Battista Alberti, Donato Bramante, Michelangelo Buonarroti and Andrea Palladio.