Constellations: HAA 2306 High Renaissance Architecture

The architecture of the High Renaissance and Mannerism (from about 1500 to about 1580 in Rome and other centers of Italy) changed forever the face of architecture. This course begins with epochal projects by Bramante, Raphael, Michelangelo and (on paper) Leonardo da Vinci. It then follows the mutation of High Renaissance ideals into Mannerism and the dispersion of both styles in northern Italy, particularly in town planning and in the villas and churches of Andrea Palladio around Venice. We end with a survey of what the Renaissance style looked like when it was exported to France, Spain, Germany, and England.