Renaissance art and architecture: Architecture of the Renaissance

During the Renaissance the ideals of art and architecture became unified in the acceptance of classical antiquity and in the belief that humanity was a measure of the universe. The rebirth of classical architecture, which took place in Italy in the 15th cent. and spread in the following century through Western Europe, terminated the supremacy of the Gothic style.

Sections in this article:

• Introduction
• Renaissance Architecture Elsewhere in Europe
• French Architecture
• Italian Renaissance Architecture
• Architecture of the Renaissance
• Renaissance Art Elsewhere in Europe
• German Art
• The Flemish Renaissance
• The Italian Renaissance
• Bibliography

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