What is Renaissance architecture?
<!---This is the beginnings. This has been moved here from the main [[Renaissance]]. I will return. --~~~~---> '''The Dome of Florence Cathedral''' :[[Florence Cathedral]], (called il Duomo), built by Arnolfo di Cambio, had a huge hole at the centre. The competition to build a roof over it was won by [[Brunelleschi]] who built the largest dome since Roman times. He cleverly got the whole city excited by getting teams of workers from the eight parts of the city. *'''Church of San Lorenzo''' :This church in Florence was designed by Brunelleschi using all the things he had learnt by looking at the [[architecture]] of [[Ancient Rome]]. It has arches, columns and round-topped windows in the Roman style. It looks completely different to the pointy-arched churches of the [[Middle Ages]]. Only the inside was finished. The outside is still all rough bricks and no-on knows exacly how it was meant to look. On the inside, however, Brunelleschi taught everyone a new set of architectural rule that revolutionised The Renaissance. *'''Church of Sant' Andrea''' :When the Ancient Roman Emperors came back from winning a battle, they built a [[Triumphal Arch]] as a monument to themself. There are several of these monuments in Rome and they have the same design: a big arch at the centre, and a smaller lower arch or doorway on either side. The architect [[Alberti]] used this as the design for the front of the church of Sant' Andrea in Mantua. He used the same pattern of tall and arched, low and square, all down the inside of the church as well. This was copied by many other architects. *'''Medici-Riccardi Palace''' :When it came to building palaces, the rich people of the Renaissance had different needs to the Roman Emperors, so the architects had to use the rules to make a new sort of grand building. These Renaissance palaces are usually three stories high and quite plain on the outside. On the inside there is a courtyard, surrounded by beautiful columns and windows. Architects like [[Michelozzo]] who worked for Cosimo de'