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Presentation By Chloe Anderson

The Foundling Hospital (Ospedale degli Innocenti)

Fillipo Brunelleschi

Designed by Fillipo Brunelleschi

  • Born in 1377 in Florence Italy
  • Worked and Trained under his father as a goldsmith and sculptor
  • later turned to architecture after losing comission to rival
  • Was influenced by father (Ser Brunellesco di Lippo) as well as Greeks and Romans
  • Many Architectural achievements including The Dome of Santa Maria del Fiore
  • Recieved comission from the Arte della Lana in 1419

Introduction

  • 1300-1600s
  • Italy
  • cultural revival from classical period
  • emphasis on education, arts, and humanism
  • new religious perspective
  • new styles of art mixed with older influences

The Art Work

  • Hospital and orphanage built from 1419-1451
  • commissioned by the Arte della Lana
  • Florence, Italy at the Piazz della Santissima
  • Uses masonary and stone
  • impost blocks, arches, columns, and pilasters
  • rooms layed out symmetrically to create balance and harmony
  • Simple and rational design
  • Revolutionary at the time
  • first renaissance building

Citations

Analysis

  • Humanism
  • Symmetry
  • Use of lines
  • Geometry
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