Renaissance to Baroque

Renaissance is considered as to be modern in those era, and Baroque is a kind of Post modern that come after Renaissance. Renaissance are full with geometric shapes and symmetry where proportions are based on human scale in their architecture. Everything is considered to be new and have to be strictly followed the rule and precisely wanting everything to be perfect. In contrast, Baroque architecture used the idea of ambiguity and contradiction, where as you can call it post modernism, which is related to the idea of Robert Venturi's complexity and contradiction. They do the opposite of Renaissance architects, where Baroque architects would go beyond from what they it has already been created, by creating the architecture that is expressive with their decorations.

Starting Baroque with Bernini, who has a lot of influence by Michelangelo. He focused his work a lot on emotional expressions, playing with dramatic light where painting, sculture and architecture blends together into one. It can be notice by the sculpture of Bernini and Michelangelo's David, that Bernini sculpture is more dramatic and expressive, looking very alive as a sculpture.

Another architect in Baroque period is Boromini, who is a commoner and has no rich commision and use the luxury material like Bernini had. His work, 'San Caloalle Quarttro Fortane', a small chapel where Borromini acheieved with only form, light and geometry. He uses simple, common, cheap material to make complex geometry, which has turn be to much more expressive with simple and cheap tool more than the architecture of Bernini's design. Borromini created the architecture that is 'both and' in the post modernism way, that it is full with complexity and contradiction when u are looking at it. He is very good at using something that has very simple form or tool and abel to turn it into something that is complex by just making its arrangement.

As in conclusion, it is able to be said that Modern and Post modernism in this 1900s also has follow the early period of architecture, which has considered to be the very early architecture type, has influenced on many of architecture that has stand out in this period of time.

Late Renaissance Dates

From the Renaissance period, of having the influence of the greek or classical style of architecture. The 3 major influence in the late Renaissance period were Donato Bramante, Michelangelo Buonarroti, and Andrea Palladio.

These 3 have created many renaissance architecture that were inspired and have changed from something very sacred like the Pantheon of having like a symmetry plan or proportional in size and having a oculus or dome which are used or represent god; to something that is used for human being which have profane from the classical architecture.

Donato Bramante have created Trompe L'oeil - or trick of the eye, which is a perspective painting of the eye that draw you to the center of the painting, which would created something that look real, and made you think that the room is bigger than it has to be. He used a lot of symmetry, even in his painting and has try to make it proportional.

Followed by Michelangelo Buonarroti, he understand the massiveness much better than Bramante, where he thickened the pier, below the dome of the St. Peter church and walls along the exterior of where Bramante have worked on it before. Michelangelo is a florentine artist, and preferred to make sculpture but he was force by the popes to make paintings and architectural designs of the renaissance. One of his architectural work that was made for the medici, which is used as a library is in florence, where you see the columns on top of the scroll on the foundation of the wall, causing it make an ambiguity about walls, and structure or the decoration.

Another architect, Andrea Palladio, who followed a lot more of Brunelleschi and Bramante in trying to make a perfect symmetry. Using durability, convenience, beauty in all of his architecture. Vicenza Basillica is having a facade that are symmetrical, and able to classify the structure of the building itself. Another of his famous building is Villa Rotunda which was totally influence from the Pantheon and Bramante and Michelangelo's St. Peter's church design the sacred cut. Situated on top of the hill overlooking the city, where as in greek architecture also having like the Parthenon on top of the hill where it is the place for god.

As conclusion, you would be able to see that many of the architecture have to take a lot of inspiration from the past architecture and adapt it to use it in the time that suitable for those period.

Then till Now of the view in Architecture

As time passed, things around us keep changing all the times including architecture, but as it changed, some idea of the pass was either being renewed, or remaked, or being inspired and apply to the present architecture.

For example, the Classical to Modernism, Modernism was all about new idea, new ways of building architecture, and one of the significant architect during that period is Le Corbusier, where his theory of Modular man was concerning about the proportion of human to be able to fit in space and used the theory of golden ratio and apply to it. Where as, in the classical times, there is also the study of the Vitruvian man by Leonardo Da Vinci, where as you can see that they were trying to make the proportions in the human body as well, but Le Corbusier take that further to be able to reckon to the concerned of Humanism.

There are also many example in continuity of where after the modernism end, and the Post Modernism had created, this movement was all about denying the concept and idea of modernism, which having the 2 part of it, 'the white and the grey', where one would trying to use the idea of classical, to deny and not accepted the idea of modernism, and one would try to step away from everything and would start his new thing. Another period of times is after the post modernism, comes with the expressionism, trying to use the idea from both modernism, and post modernism, and express the architecture with complexity of form, and use their artistic way to design the architecture that could expressed and their wants of building this architecture.

In my opinion, every part and period of architecture are very important, since all of this are somehow can be related back and forth. Some are being inspired, some are being opposed, but it the end every period of architecture still have their own thoughts and their own kind of way that each architect have toward architecture.