Kulkarni Janhavi Amit Bhagyashree

AHT - Key Texts in History & Theory

Renaissance, considered a rebirth in architecture, was the beginning of an era where humans had agency rather than the divine. Renaissance artists and architects turned away from medieval scholasticism and rediscovered Greek and Roman antiquity. A sense of proportion, order and harmony was brought into the art and architecture of this era. Florence, Italy was where we now see the first signs of this rebirth. The essay discusses the beginning of the Italian Renaissance in Florence and endeavours to investigate how this epochal change can be reflected in the architecture language built at that time.