The Full List To
Renaissance Landmarks
Florence Cathedral
1436CE
Also known as the Cathedral of Saint Mary of the Flower, is the cathedral of Florence, Italy. It was begun in 1296 in the Gothic style to a design of Arnolfo di Cambio and was structurally completed by 1436, with the dome engineered by Filippo Brunelleschi.
Source: : Florence Cathedral - Wikipedia
S. Maria Novella
1420 CE
Santa Maria Novella is a church in Florence, Italy, situated opposite, and lending its name to, the city’s main railway station. Chronologically, it is the first great basilica in Florence, and is the city’s principal Dominican church.
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Source: Santa Maria Novella - Wikipedia
Palazzo Medici
1444 - 1460
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Palazzo Medici: Also called the Palazzo Medici Riccardi after the later family that acquired and expanded it, is a Renaissance palace located in Florence, Italy. The Medici family residence commissioned in 1444 by Cosimo the Elder represents a hallmark of Renaissance civil architecture. The design was entrusted to Michelozzo, the architect whose project won over that proposed by his outstanding peer Filippo Brunelleschi, which Cosimo considered “too bombastic and pretentious”, so much that “it might have aroused the envy of his fellow citizens instead of being an example of beauty and an ornament for the city or, more simply, a comfortable dwelling” (G. Vasari, 1568).
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Source : The Palace | Palazzo Medici Riccardi
Tempio Malatestiano
1468
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Tempio Malatestiano: The Tempio Malatestiano is the unfinished cathedral church of Rimini, Italy. Officially named for St. Francis, it takes its popular name from Sigismondo Pandolfo Malatesta, who commissioned its reconstruction by the famous Renaissance theorist and architect Leon Battista Alberti around 1450.
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San Lorenzo, Florence
1470 AD
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S. Lorenzo: The Basilica di San Lorenzo (Basilica of St. Lawrence) is one of the largest churches in Florence, Italy, situated at the center of the city’s main market district. It is one of several churches that claim to be the oldest in Florence; when it was consecrated in 393 it stood outside the city walls.
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The Basilica di santo spirito
1022 AD
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The Basilica di Santo Spirito ("Basilica of the Holy Spirit") is a church in Florence, Italy. Usually referred to simply as Santo Spirito, it is located in the Oltrarno quarter, facing the square with the same name. The interior of the building – internal length 97 m (318 ft) – is one of the preeminent examples of Renaissance architecture.
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Sources : Palazzo Rucellai - Wikipedia
Palazzo Rucellai
1446-1451
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Palazzo Rucellai: Palazzo Rucellai is a palatial fifteenth-century townhouse on Via della Vigna Nuova in Florence, Italy. It was designed by Leon Battista Alberti between 1446 and 1451 for the Rucellai family7.
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Villa Madama , Rome
1525
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Villa Madama: Villa Madama is a Renaissance-style rural palace on Via di Villa Madama in Rome, Italy. It was designed by Raphael and his pupils Giulio Romano and Giovanni da Udine for Cardinal Giulio de’ Medici (later Pope Clement VII), who was a member of the ruling Medici family of Florence.
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Sources : Roma, Villa Madama | www.governo.it​
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Villa Barbaro
1560 AD
Villa Rotonda
1592AD
Also known as Villa Almerico Capra Valmarana or La Rotonda, is a Renaissance villa just outside Vicenza in northern Italy designed by Andrea Palladio. The proper name is Villa Almerico Capra Valmarana but it is also known as La Rotonda or Villa Capra or Villa Rotonda.
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S. Giorgio Maggiore
1566
San Giorgio Maggiore, architecturally influential church in Venice, designed in 1566 by Andrea Palladio and finished in 1610 by Vincenzo Scamozzi. The church stands on the island of San Giorgio Maggiore, opposite the monumental San Marco Basilica, and is one of the first sights of Venice visible to the traveler approaching by sea.
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Source: San Giorgio Maggiore | Baroque architecture, Palladio, monastery | Britannica
Louvre Palace
1190-1793
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Louvre Palace: Often referred to simply as Louvre, is an iconic French palace located on the Right Bank of the Seine in Paris. Originally a defensive castle built around 1190 with its first construction as a castle defending the western front of Wall of Philip II Augustus. It has served numerous government-related functions in the past including intermittently as a royal residence between 14th and 18th centuries. It is now mostly used by Louvre Museum which first opened there in 1793.
Source: Louvre Palace - Wikipedia
