Art History 246 - RENAISSANCE ARCHITECTURE

Architectural, urban, and landscape design in western Europe, from the central Italian communes of the fourteenth century to the villas of Andrea Palladio. Focus on the mechanisms of patronage; the interest in Roman antiquity; principles of design; the symbolic import of articulated, decorated space; and the cultural implications of the ultramontane transmission (and transformation) of Italianate patterns in Spain, France, central Europe, and England.