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- Gustav Vasa and his sons Erik and Johan erected a lavish renaissance palace with a round inner courtyard. It was at least partly designed by Willem Boy and completed in 1580 but burnt down in 1687. The remaining building material was shipped to Stockholm to be used in the build of the castle Tre kronor.
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During the Renaissance era, Svartsjö Palace had a round court surrounded by arcades in two stories. The main building was a large cube crowned by a cupola and small towers. Engraving from Suecia Antiqua et Hodierna. Royal residence. The location of this palace has housed several royal buildings.
During medieval times there was a stone house where prominent Swedish royalty lived. Gustav Vasa and his sons Erik and Johan erected a lavish renaissance palace with a round inner courtyard. It was at least partly designed by Willem Boy and completed in 1580 but burnt down in 1687.
- Svartsjövägen 2, Svartsjö, Sweden
During medieval times there was a stone house where prominent Swedish royalty lived. Gustav Vasa and his sons Erik and Johan erected a lavish renaissance palace with a round inner courtyard. It was at least partly designed by Willem Boy and completed in 1580 but burnt down in 1687.
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- Studying The Past
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- Churches
- Public & Domestic Buildings
- Written Works on Architecture
- The Spread of Renaissance Ideas
The Renaissance period witnessed a great revival in interest in antiquity in terms of thought, art, and architecture. The first and most obvious point of study for Renaissance architects was the mass of Greco-Roman ruins still seen in southern Europe, especially, of course, in Italy. Basilicas, Roman baths, aqueducts, amphitheatres, and temples wer...
Architects not only studied the distant past but also what colleagues were doing elsewhere. Drawings and prints spread new concepts far and wide so that those unable to see new buildings in person could study developing trends. Sometimes, influences came from unlikely places. The Florentine painter and sculptor Michelangelo(1475-1564) created some ...
Churches continued to be a very important part of any community, and one of the most outstanding Renaissance contributions in this area was the dome of Florence's Santa Maria del Fiore cathedral, designed and built by Brunelleschi. Completed in 1436, the brick dome measures at the base 45.5 metres (149 ft) in diameter, and it made the cathedral the...
A public building which is often cited as a typical example of early Renaissance architecture is Brunelleschi's Ospedale degli Innocenti in Florence (completed 1424). The architect's use of tall slim columns to support arches which create a loggia with shallow domes was imitated for the facades of many other types of public buildings throughout the...
Many architects, as noted, wrote books on their subject. Alberti's On Building (De Re Aedificatoria) came out in Latin in 1452 and then in the Tuscan vernacular in 1456. Alberti catalogued the defining principles of classical architecture and noted how these might be applied to contemporary Renaissance buildings. He emphasised the need for building...
Architects travelling to different cities and the spread of written works helped ensure Italy was not alone as a witness to the architectural revolution. Books were often translated and so, for example, the 50 illustrations of highly decorative doorways in Serlio's books became popular with Mannerist architects in Northern Europe. Architects also m...
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Apr 13, 2018 · For a long period the castle was the strongest defensive installation in the Baltic region. During the time of King Johan III, the castle was then transformed into a magnificent Renaissance palace with the aid of architect Willem Boy. This period saw the property furnished with a new royal apartment, a new royal chapel and a new hall of state.
Mar 22, 2020 · The Middle Ages had witnessed an extraordinary period of city building in which many new settlements were founded. During the Renaissance, this activity dramatically slowed. However, the Renaissance did give rise to new ways of considering the city and to new discourses regarding urban life. These included innovative forms of city description ...
Jan 12, 2005 · Chapter three, “The ancient house-texts”, explores the ancient literary sources, the principal, or indeed the only, sources available for Renaissance patrons and architects. Classical texts were intensively exploited during this period, circulating on an even larger scale after the advent of printing in Italy (1465).
