Renaissance architecture emerged in the early 15th century in Florence, Italy. Ushering in a revival of ancient Greek and Roman classical architectural forms, it supplanted the prevailing Gothic ...

By that time, architecture since the Renaissance was considered a liberal art, not a craft, as it had been deemed during the Middle Ages. The shift was the result of two books that were required ...

LANCASTER IN STYLE, PART 27: ITALIAN RENAISSANCE REVIVAL, 1890-1930 Skip to main ... was America’s first taste of Italian architecture but was based solely on pattern book designs.