Movement
Renaissance Architecture
Explore in the Atlas →The revival of classical Roman vocabulary — column, round arch, dome and harmonic proportion — originating in early-fifteenth-century Florence with Brunelleschi's cathedral dome and codified in Alberti's treatise as a rational, humanist order of building.
Memory Production
Details
- Origin
- Florence, Italy
Classifications
- Holder
- Individual
- Source of authority
- ReasonAncestry
- Subject
- Human centred
- Political position
- Hegemonic
- Degree of codification
- Highly codified
- Mode of transmission
- Text drawing
- Knowledge type
- Propositional
- Epistemic cluster
- Western philosophical
Connections
- influenced Neoclassical Architecture
- preceded Baroque Architecture
Referenced by
- Spiro Kostof associated with
Sources
- Rudolf Wittkower. Architectural Principles in the Age of Humanism. Warburg Institute, 1949.
Cite this entry
First published May 2026Last revised Jul 2026
CLAD. "Renaissance Architecture." Atlas of Architectural Thought. CLAD, 2026. https://www.cl-ad.com.au/research/atlas/movement/renaissance-architecture/. Accessed July 17, 2026.