Week 6 Responses

week 6 response

I agree more with Didascolo. Protopiro insisted that the basic style or the simplest structure is the most dominant and long-existing form of architecture. In other words, he supported the simplicity of architecture. However, I think the ornaments on the architecture and the different styles of architecture must exist for reasons. For example, the emblems of Barberini’s family is a bee ornamented on the façade. Moreover, buildings have different functions and the ornaments not only help to define the nature of a building but also help to develop certain characteristics of it. For example, in architectures during the Renaissance period, paintings related to antiquity were drawn. School of Athens shows the spirit of the period: Humanity has access to the truth. So the ornaments should exist to represent the art and even principals during that period.

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