tdfa14+Architecture

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 * Through the Renaissance period the ideals of art and architecture became unified in the acceptance of classical antiquity and in the belief that humanity was a measure of the universe.
 * The rebirth of classical architecture took place in Italy in the 15th cent 1400) this spread during the next century through Western Europe, and replaced the supremacy of the Gothic style.
 * The Elizibethan style and the Jacobean style of architecture applied classical motifs but still kept medieval forms.
 * Movement twords pure and monumental classical style was mostly the work of Inigo Jones. His royal banqueting hall (1619) in London was decisively established a Palladian design in English architecture.
 * In Germany, the medieval love for picturesque forms still dominated (middle of the 16th century), although transferred to classical motifs were freely interpreted and resembling the Elizabethan work in England, giving full play to originality and craftsmanship. This style, though, failed to reach full development as in France and England.