Andrea di Pietro della Gondola was born on November 30, 1508 and died in August of 1580. It is said he was born in Padua, Republic of Venice and died in Vicenza. Andrea Gondola was an Italian architect and was regarded as the greatest architect of the 16th century in northern Italy. The palaces and villas he designed, along with his treatise made him one of the most influential figures in Western architecture. Some of his most influential works are the Villa Rotonda, originally known as Villa Capra, and his treatise “I Quattro libri dell’architettura”, which translates to “The Four Books of Architecture.” Andrea Gondola was apprenticed to a sculptor in Padua until the age of sixteen, when he moved to nearby Vicenza where he enrolled in the guild of the bricklayers and stonemasons. Gondola was employed in workshops as a mason where he specialized in monuments and decorative sculpture in the style of the Mannerist architect Michele Sanmicheli. By 1541 he had …show more content…
In 1570 his treatise, “The Four Books of Architecture,” was published. The four books consist of his architectural principles along with his advice for other architects. Some think that the most critical element of the books was the set of meticulous woodcut illustrations which were drawn from his own works. The first book consists of technical questions and the classical orders. The second book is devoted to domestic architecture and the third to civic architecture. While the fourth book talks about ecclesiastical architecture. Choice Review writes, “Andrea Palladio 's seminal treatise (Venice, 1570) is undoubtedly the most influential book in Western architecture.” It goes on to say because of its clear and accurate illustrations it appealed to practical builders as well as to their erudite patrons. Through Palladio’s treatise he has exerted a dominant influence on architecture for over two centuries, particularly in northern
Delano comes across a beaten up ship, ripped sails, seems to be moving on its own. The ship may have been through a storm b/c of torn sails, acts like a ghost ship. Very interested in ship and also inquisitive about saying in spanish imprinted on the ship, which translates to “follow your leader”. Foreshadows upcoming events about wanting to figure out the secrecy about the ship.
Dana Gioia Capsule Biography By Ryan Blocker Dana Gioia was born in Hawthorne, California on December 24, 1950. Gioia’s schooling was Catholic and a prominent school he attended was Junipero Serra High School. Later, Gioia had attended and graduated Standford Business School, but later went on to become a poet. Gioia himself remarked that he was, “the only person, in history, who went to business school to be a poet.”
Ever since Luna Garcias was born, she has been a household servant at the Garcias family, who is well-known for raising their bulls for bullfighters. As Luna’s mother died at childbirth, she is raised by the loyal housemaid, Panqui who taught her obedience. However, within the bulls that are raised by the Garcias family, she finds a burning passion. With an ambitious quality, she craves to be a bullfighter as she believes that it is a way that will lift her out of poverty. Thus, every night, she will secretly practice doing what she believes is bullfighting, until she is caught one day by Manuel, the eldest son of the Garcias.
Mary Parenti is 12 years old, who scored 87 in the IQ. The year she was born, her family emigrated to New York. Her family owns a restaurant and where her both parents work. This little girl should have a kidney transplant because she is a genius and she might innovate something. Thus, the community should invest in her.
On the 13th of September 1775, Elizabeth Ingersoll gave birth to Laura Ingersoll, a clever, beautiful baby. When Laura was eight, her mother died, leaving her and her three sisters, Myra, Abigail and Elizabeth. Her father remarried twice and had two children, named Nancy and Charles with his third wife. Her family was originally from Massachusetts, so in 1795 her family immigrated to Upper Canada where her father had obtained a township grant for settlement. Her father’s farm became the site of the modern town of Ingersoll.
Early life and Education Lauren Giraldo was born on 11th January 1998 in Miami, Florida. She belongs to White-American ethnicity and holds American nationality. Born into a mediocre family Giraldo has a sister, Kristina Giraldo, is a popular social media star. Their mother worked at the children’s hospital.
Andrea del Verrocchio is a painter and sculptor and da Vinci was an apprentice of his.
Filippo Brunelleschi was born in Florence, Italy in the year 1377. His early life is relatively unknown. He became a goldsmith, sculptor, engineer, artist and architect. He was one of the leading architects in the Renaissance Era and has been referred to as the “First Renaissance Architect.” Brunelleschi is accredited for the invention of linear perspective.
New designs have been adopted since the onset of architecture, and thus, with the concentration of a history of architecture, new phenomenon and innovations are realized that would help in further explanation and address of other necessities in the same sector. A concentration in the History of architecture and landscape architecture as a course incorporates more than one element of
He designed the huge octagonal dome of the cathedral of Florence, completed in 1436, for which he studied in depth classical architecture, especially the colossal pantheon of Agrippa. This dome is considered as a feat both from an artistic and engineering point of view since the
Although first in our essay, the Gothic architecture prevails to be the final phase of the medieval architecture (Fazio et al 213). The term “Gothic” was not applied to the architecture until the 1700’s. . Since the Gothic architecture was linked to the medieval era, it attained many attributes and elements, such as pointed arches and rib vaults, portrayed in prior styles like that of the Romanesque style. Despite having similar traits of earlier designs, the Gothic style additionally had a few underivative attributes associated with the Gothic system alone. Furthermore, those new pieces were flying buttresses, windows with tracery, and piers composed of colonettes bundled around a shaft (Fazio et al
He called this “Organic Architecture”. He managed to create his own architectural language that was true to his beliefs in design. Along with his design ideology he published the essay “In the Cause of Architecture” that set guidelines and proportions that were the basis of his work. In his essay he lists a number of important points: “ 1. Simplicity is the quality that defines the value of any work of art “– 1.
Gottfried Semper was a major figure in the field of Interior designing. He was an architect and an art critic who contributed majorly to the study of interiors .He proposed his ideas and thoughts in his book, “Four elements of architecture”, in the year 1952 and it was a huge success. In his book, he developed the theory that origin of architecture could be dated back to the primitive era when human civilization was at its peak. As compared to the modern ideology that architecture consists of structures made from materials, his theory revolved around the four main elements of the primitive era that were essential to human life.
The style of the building and the purpose it is built give a brief and thoughtful storybook about the culture of the architect as art, generally, and architecture, particularly, is a language itself. Thus, buildings narrate the stories of the people among the history and tell their traditions and habits to the next generation through its design, inscriptions, and details. In this essay, I will discuss how both the style and function of the Greek Parthenon and the Roman Pantheon served as typical examples of their cultures in Athens and ancient Rome. In addition to the similarities and differences between these two cultures through the two buildings. Both the Greek and the Roman architecture inspired the cultures and architects until these days due to the diverse meaning they carry and symbolize in astonishing ways through the different orders, columns, roofs, friezes, and domes.
'We want to create the purely organic building, boldly emanating its inner laws, free of untruths or ornamentation. ' Walter Gropius Modernism design came in many forms from door handles to influential architectural feats. The Machine age made artists think differently and influence design today. In the following essay, I will analysis the work of Walter Gropius, an early modern German architect and how his designs had an impact on an improving society and his moral ideas. I will also discuss whether Modernist ideas and principles may still be relevant to contemporary design through the work of Gropius.