What were the achievements of Renaissance architecture? The era known to us as the Renaissance began approximately around the beginning of the fifteenth century, in Florence. The philosophy behind the whole movement is one of “rebirth” or the re-establishing of ancient classical culture. Following the collapse of the Roman civilization much of Europe fell into decline, losing a great deal of information concerning that period. Therefore knowledge concerning the architecture of that age could only …showed first 75 words of 1425 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1425 total…s Stanze, has seen in a day, the finest things in Rome. He will have learnt at the same time, what the Renaissance was; it was Antiquity ennobled by the Christian faith.” This encapsulates the mentality of the Renaissance whilst the very man who so inspired the Renaissance can sum up its architectural achievements. “Architecture consists of Order… and of Arrangement…and of Proportion and Symmetry and Décor and Distribution…” -Vitruvius (De Architectura I)