Architecture. Зайцева И.В. - 32 стр.

        Filippo Brune Heschi (1377-1446) is said to have created the Renaissance. In the
early 15th century he formulated linear perspective, which was to become a basic
element of Renaissance art. His basic vocabulary – fluted pilasters carrying
entablatures, columns supporting arches, unribbed vaults which are portions of the
surface of a sphere – appears in his brilliant work, Ospedade degli Innocenti (1419-51)
in France. It was the first building in the Renaissance manner.
        The austere Tuscan Doric façade of Donato Bramante’s (1444-1514) Tempietto
San Pietro in Montorio (1502) symbolized the beginning of the early 16th century High
Renaissance or Cinquecento in Rome. The Italian Renaissance is assumed to have
achieved the highest degree of perfection at that time. In 1505 Pope Julius II decided to
demolish Old St. Peter’s and to build St. Peter’s Cathedral, the work of many architects,
beginning with Bramante, whose ground plan was later changed from a Greek cross to a
Latin cross. St. Peter’s Cathedral is the largest church in the high Christian world. It has
29 altars in addition to the high altar, interior length 187 m., width at front, 26,5 m.,
length of transept, 137 m. The dome (diameter, 42 m., height, 123 m. to the top of the
lantern) was built by Michelangelo.

        3.3 Exercises to the text

        3.3.1 Find the false sentences using the information from the text. Correct
them:

1) The Renaissance is assumed to have reinitiated classical details.
2) The Renaissance succeeded the Baroque.
3) The Renaissance style was initially characterized by the use of asymmetrical
composition.
4) Great skill of the Renaissance architects was expressed in ordering the interior of

buildings.

5) It is stated that Bramante was the initiator of the Renaissance.
6) It was Filippo Brunelleschi who formulated linear perspective.
7) St. Peter’s Cathedral in Rome is assumed to represent the High Renaissance.

        3.3.2 Choose the right words and complete the following sentences:

1) The Renaissance developed in…
        a) France
        b) Italy
        c) Russia
2) The treatise “De architectura” was a handbook of the … architects.
        a) Renaissance
        b) Baroque
        c) Gothic
3) The Renaissance is characterized by measured expression and definition of…
        a) pointed arches