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=Italian Architecture of the Renaissance- The General Picture= The Three Sections of the Renaissance:
 * The Architects of Italy in the Renaissance primarily based their ideas off of Classical Rome.
 * Classical orders and architectural elements such as columns, pilasters, pediments, entablatures, arches, and domes form the general appearance of Renaissance buildings.
 * Mathematical proportion was a key element in the planning of these grand buildings as well as symmetry.
 * The style places emphasis on symmetry, proportion, geometry and the regularity of parts.
 * This was a time in which old ideas of both Greek and Roman were combined, to make a new, sleek, refined building.
 * Gothic Architecture had never been truly adopted in Italy, for they preferred the symmetry of their ancestors.
 * In the early Renaissance, space was incorporated in a geometric flow and proportions


 * During the High Renaissance, the ideas of classical structure were much more absorbed into the construction of these large chapels and buildings.

=**The Architecture of Venice during the Renaissance Age**= The Canals: =Rome- The Architectural Vault=
 * In the final stage of the Renaissance, the idea of harmony was dropped and styles were created with much more freedom and imagination.
 * Venice is a true architectural wonder in terms of what it took to build it.
 * The city is built upon a gathering of a 100 low-lying islands in the middle of a large lagoon.
 * The early Venice was built with a waterproof stone called Istria.
 * These were constructed upon rafts made of wooden logs driven deep into the muddy clay in order to make a sturdy, waterproof, foundation.
 * The Majority of the canals in Venice are actually completely natural
 * The bottoms of these usually consisted of sand and mud.
 * Rome most likely is one of the greatest city's of Italian Architecture to ever be created