In the same way the student of the Renaissance architecture may supplement the section in the article Architecture (p. 408, etc.) by reference to the articles on the cities in which the great Renaissance buildings stand. But now “the career of the individual has to be taken into consideration,” so true is it that the Renaissance in architecture as in scholarship was intensely individualistic. The article Architecture points this out and in this section is largely biographical in its treatment. The reader should study the following separate articles also
For Italian Renaissance
- Filippo Brunelleschi
- Florence
- Leone Battista Alberti
- Michelozzo di Bartolommeo
- Bramante
- Rome (for St. Peters: see Fig. 51 in Architecture)
- Borgognone
- Baccio d’Agnolo
- Sangallo
- Pollaiulo
- Michelangelo
- Jacopo Sansovino
- Michele Sanmichele
- Andrea Palladio
- Barocchio da Vignola
- Galeazzo Alessi
- Lombardo
- Domenico Fontana
- Baldassare Peruzzi
The French Renaissance
For this period, less individual than in Italy, the reader will find it best to study the geographical articles. Let him read
- Blois (noting Plate VIII, fig. 84, in the article Architecture)
- Tours
- Chambord
- Orleans
- Chenonceaux
- Fontainebleau
- Paris
Spanish Renaissance
- Granada
- Valladolid
- Saragossa
- Malaga
- Salamanca (Plate V., fig. 73 in Architecture)
- Seville (Plate V., fig. 74 in Architecture)
- Escorial (with plan)
- Madrid (Palacio Royal)
English Renaissance
- John Thorpe
- Inigo Jones
- Sir Christopher Wren
- St. Paul’s Cathedral (see Fig. 53 in Architecture)
- Greenwich (for Hospital)
- Nicholas Hawksmoor
- Sir John Vanbrugh
- Dean Henry Aldrich
- George and James Dance
- William Kent
- Robert Adam
- Sir William Chambers