Filippo Brunelleschi

In the 1419 workshop Arte della Seta commissioned Brunelleschi building educational home for babies who have been left without parents (Ospedale dei Innocenti - Shelter innocent, acted do1875 town), which was actually the first building of the Renaissance in Italy. Educational Home organized simply: the arcade of the loggia are disclosed in the Piazza Santissima Annunziata, - in fact the building is its tracery «wall». All architectural elements clearly read, the magnitude of construction is not more than human action, but agreed with it. The open staircase leads to 9 degrees throughout the entire width of the building to lower it - Ms, spread the gallery from 9 polutsirkulnyh arches that rest on higher order composite columns. Ka - piteley from the back wall of the gallery spread podpruzhnye arches, which swoop consoles decorated capital - teachers. At the corners are a number of columns of pilasters, over each of them resting architrave, which stretches over all the arches. Between the arches, and which strengthened arhitravom majolica medallions-Tonda Della Robbie works depicting infants spelenatyh (its simple color - blue and white - they make the rhythm of the columns dimensional, quieter). The rectangular format of the windows and their frames and windows Pediments Brunelleschi copied from the Roman samples, as well as columns, arhivolty arches, pilasters and cornice profiles. But the ancient forms rendered unusually free of all composers - tion is not original and can be described as a copy of the ancient samples. Thanks to a special sense of proportion, Brunelleschi, in the context of the entire architecture of the Renaissance seems most «Greek», rather than the Roman master, but that none of Greek buildings, he could not see.