There he became familiar with Palladio, an influential Renaissance architect famous for his Italian villas.

It was designed by the French Renaissance architect Philibert de l'Orme.

In the 16th century, the city's design and planning were primarily controlled by Italian Renaissance architects and artists.

Renaissance architects designed buildings whose proportions were based on those of the human body and whose ornamentation imitated ancient designs.

Brunelleschi was the first Renaissance architect to revive the ancient Roman style of architecture.

But the same can be said of the great Western Renaissance architects, such as Brunelleschi and Michelangelo.

Even as Renaissance architects looked back to the ancient world for inspiration, what they were actually modeling was modernity itself.

The ruins of ancient Rome inspired the Renaissance architects.

Francisco de Mora (c.1553-1610) was a Spanish Renaissance architect.

The obvious distinguishing features of Classical Roman architecture were adopted by Renaissance architects.