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Early Renaissance (Architecture Style)

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Region:  Italy, especially Florence.Period: Fifteenth century.Characteristics:Centralized plan.Emulation of the Antique.Invention.Spatial harmony.Proportional façade.Delicacy.Centralized planThe Early Renaissance saw the fi rst experiments with the Neoplatonic ideal of the centralized plan. Brunelleschi’s S. Maria degli Angeli was begun in 1434, but left incomplete. Michelozzo’s east end of SS. Annunziata, Florence, begun in 1444, is a complete example, but Giuliano da Sangallo the Elder’s S. Maria delle Carceri is...

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