Venice in the Renaissance

- in a lagoon-hinge point btwn the east and west-very wealthy-ruled by doge (elected by families original to venice)-city state-free and stable society

-house of gold-entire facade was made of gold-screen facade-house for merchants (trading east to west)

-Doge's palace-ambulatory arcade around whole thing-city hall of venice-entrance to city usually

- main focus, heart/entry of Venice-theft of marco (Marco became patron saint of Venice)-plundered everything (everything stolen was put inside)

-2nd patron saint-2 columns (place to hang people)-place of carnival celebration of freedom

-huge naval base-early manifestations of renaissnace was the gateway to the arsenal-hyperotomachia influenced gateway

- Pietro Lombardo-simple proportions-1st manifestation of Renaissance architecture-made from cast offs of San Marco (marble)-brick structure hung from metal hooks- book mashed

- Codussi- guilds (scuola)- union/fraternity, payed dues-interesting detail on the facade, perspectives

-business was done here-codussi

-not venetian, was roman-takes position as proto (head architect of Venice when it needed change)-firmitas- evaluation of the domes-utilitas- reorganization of the piazza-venustas- contribution to the glory and splendor of the city

-housed money-showcased the wealth of venice-stability/heaviness style-rustication

-right next to zecca-facade is theatrical-established a humanist connection with the past-lower level is an arcade-columns with arches inside-metope- solved corner problem (solution transcends the ancients but follows the ancients)

-entry porch of the campanile-reference to roman arch by the influence of the Arch of Constantine-iconography- myths of the ancient world-not just referencing the ancients but transcending them

-educated mason (rare)-influenced by trissino and barbaro-four books on architecture-geometry+architecture=virtue

-orders (proportions-parts to whole)-disegno (drawing + design)-elementary problems-universal truth but can have variety