Week 4 Responses

Week 4 Response

During the Renaissance period, architecture traced fine arts. As shown in The School of Athens by Raphael, Renaissance architecture implied a revival of ancient Greek and Rome. It celebrated that humans can achieve rational thought and access truth through humanity. It also implied the beginning of the idea that we can find the universal aspect of the universe itself. The architectural ideals of this period was divine proportion, featured by classical orders and mathematically precise ratios combined with a desire for symmetry, proportion, and harmony. The use of linear perspective was also invented during the early Renaissance period.

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