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'''Renaissance Revival architecture''' (sometimes referred to as "'''Neo-Renaissance'''") is a group of [[19th-century]] [[Revivalism (architecture)|architectural revival styles]] which were neither [[Greek Revival architecture|Greek Revival]] nor [[Gothic Revival architecture|Gothic Revival]] but which instead drew inspiration from a wide range of classicizing Italian modes. Under the broad designation [[Renaissance architecture]] 19th-century architects and critics went beyond the architectural style which began in [[Florence]] and [[Central Italy]] in the early 15th century as an expression of [[Renaissance humanism]]; they also included styles that can be identified as [[Mannerism|Mannerist]] or [[Baroque]]. Self-applied style designations were rife in the mid- and later 19th century: "Neo-Renaissance" might be applied by contemporaries to structures that others called "[[Italianate]]", or when many [[French Baroque]] features are present ([[Second Empire (architecture)|Second Empire]]).

The divergent forms of Renaissance architecture in different parts of Europe, particularly in [[French Renaissance architecture|France]] and [[Italy]], has added to the difficulty of defining and recognizing Neo-Renaissance architecture. A comparison between the breadth of its source material, such as the English [[Wollaton Hall]],<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.greatbuildings.com/buildings/Wollaton_Hall.html |title=Wollaton Hall |publisher=Greatbuildings.com |access-date=11 June 2011}}</ref> Italian [[Palazzo Pitti]], the French [[Château de Chambord]], and the Russian [[Palace of Facets]]—all deemed "Renaissance"—illustrates the variety of appearances the same architectural label can take.

==Origins of Renaissance architecture==
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The origin of [[Renaissance architecture]] is generally accredited to [[Filippo Brunelleschi]] (1377–1446).<ref name=copplestone>Copplestone, Trewin (1963). ''World Architecture''. Hamlyn.</ref>{{rp|243}} Brunelleschi and his contemporaries wished to bring greater "order" to architecture, resulting in strong symmetry and careful proportion. The movement grew from scientific observations of nature, in particular, human anatomy.

Neo-Renaissance architecture is formed by not only the original Italian architecture but by the form in which [[French Renaissance architecture|Renaissance architecture developed in France]] during the 16th century. During the early years of the 16th century, the French were involved in the [[Italian Wars]], bringing back to France not just the [[Renaissance art]] treasures as their war [[treasure|booty]], but also stylistic ideas. In the [[Loire valley]] a wave of [[chateau]] building was carried out using traditional [[French Gothic architecture|French Gothic styles]] but with ornament in the forms of pediments, arcades, shallow pilasters and entablatures from the [[Italian Renaissance]].

In [[England]], the Renaissance tended to manifest itself in large square tall houses such as [[Longleat House]] (1568–1580). Often these buildings had symmetrical towers which hint at the evolution from medieval fortified architecture. This is particularly evident at [[Hatfield House]] (1607–1612), where medieval towers jostle with a large [[Italy|Italian]] cupola. This is why so many buildings of the early English Neo-Renaissance style often have more of a "castle air" than their [[continental Europe]]an contemporaries, which can add again to the confusion with the [[Gothic Revival architecture|Gothic Revival style]].

==Birth of the Neo-Renaissance==
[[File:Mentmore Towers from angle.jpg|thumb|250px|[[Mentmore Towers]] in Buckinghamshire. English [[Jacobethan]] Neo-Renaissance completed in 1854, derives motifs from [[Wollaton Hall]] completed in 1588.]]

When the revival of Renaissance style architecture came ''en vogue'' in the mid 19th century, it often materialized not just in its original form first seen in Italy, but as a hybrid of all its forms according to the whims of architects and patrons, an approach typical of the mid and late 19th century. Modern scholarship defines the styles following the Renaissance as [[Mannerist architecture|Mannerist]] and [[Baroque architecture|Baroque]], two very different, even opposing [[Architectural style|styles of architecture]], but the architects of the mid 19th century understood them as part of a continuum, often simply called 'Italian', and freely combined them all, as well as Renaissance as it was first practiced in other countries.

Thus Italian, French and Flemish Renaissance coupled with the amount of borrowing from these later periods can cause great difficulty and argument in correctly identifying various forms of 19th-century architecture. Differentiating some forms of French Neo-Renaissance buildings from those of the [[Gothic revival]] can at times be especially tricky, as both styles were simultaneously popular during the 19th century.

As a consequence, a self-consciously "Neo-Renaissance" manner first began to appear {{Circa|1840}}. By 1890 this movement was already in decline. [[The Hague]]'s [[Peace Palace]] completed in 1913, in a heavy French Neo-Renaissance manner was one of the last notable buildings in this style.

[[File:Prague 07-2016 View from Petrinska Tower img4.jpg|thumb|left|250px|[[National Theatre (Prague)|Prague's National Theatre]] (Czech Republic), 1862]]

[[Charles Barry]] introduced the Neo-Renaissance to England with his design of the [[Travellers Club]], [[Pall Mall, London|Pall Mall]] (1829–1832). Other early but typical, domestic examples of the Neo-Renaissance include [[Mentmore Towers]] and the [[Château de Ferrières]], both designed in the 1850s by [[Joseph Paxton]] for members of the [[Rothschild family|Rothschild]] banking family. The style is characterized by original Renaissance [[Motif (art)|motifs]], taken from such Quattrocento architects as [[Leone Battista Alberti|Alberti]]. These motifs included [[rustication (architecture)|rusticated]] masonry and [[Quoin (architecture)|quoins]], windows framed by [[architrave]]s and doors crowned by [[pediment]]s and [[entablature]]s. If a building were of several floors, the uppermost floor usually had small square windows representing the minor [[Mezzanine (architecture)|mezzanine floor]] of the original Renaissance designs. However, the Neo-renaissance style later came to incorporate [[Romanesque architecture|Romanesque]] and [[Baroque]] features not found in the original Renaissance architecture which was often more severe in its design. [[John Ruskin]]'s panegyrics to architectural wonders of Venice and Florence in the 1850s contributed to shifting "the attention of scholars and designers, with their awareness heightened by debate and restoration work"<ref>Rosanna Pavoni. ''Reviving the Renaissance: The Use and Abuse of the Past in Nineteenth-Century Italian Art''. Cambridge University Press, 1997. {{ISBN|0-521-48151-1}}. Page 73.</ref><!--the work is available online through Google Books.--> from [[Neoclassicism|Late Neoclassicism]] and Gothic Revival to the Italian Renaissance.

Like all architectural styles, the Neo-Renaissance did not appear overnight fully formed but evolved slowly. One of the first signs of its emergence was the [[Würzburg]] Women's Prison, which was erected in 1809 designed by [[Peter Speeth]]. It included a heavily rusticated ground floor, alleviated by one semicircular arch, with a curious [[Egypt]]ian style miniature [[portico]] above, high above this were a sequence of six tall arched windows and above these just beneath the slightly projecting roof were the small windows of the upper floor. This building foreshadows similar effects in the work of the American architect [[Henry Hobson Richardson]] whose work in the Neo-Renaissance style was popular in the US during the 1880s. Richardson's style at the end or the revival era was a severe mix of both Romanesque and Renaissance features.<ref name=copplestone />{{rp|300–318}} This was exemplified by his "Marshall Field Warehouse" in [[Chicago]] (completed in 1887, now demolished). Neo-Renaissance was adopted early in [[Munich]], often based directly on Italian Palazzi, first appearing in the [[Palais Leuchtenberg]] (1817–21), by [[Leo von Klenze]], then adopted as a state style under the reign of [[Ludwig I of Bavaria]] for such landmarks as the [[Alte Pinakothek]] (1826–36), the Konigbau wing of the [[Munich Residenz]] (1825–35), and the [[Bavarian State Library]] (1831–43).

==Development and expansion==

===Europe===
[[File:Spb 06-2012 Palace Embankment various 09.jpg|thumb|250px|The façade of the [[Vladimir Palace]] in [[Saint Petersburg]], Russia, redolent of [[Leone Battista Alberti|Alberti]]'s designs, 1867–1872]]

While the beginning of Neo-Renaissance period can be defined by its simplicity and severity, what came later was far more ornate in its design. This period can be defined by some of the great [[opera house]]s of Europe, such as [[Gottfried Semper]]'s Burgtheater in Vienna, and his Opera house in [[Dresden]]. This ornate form of the Neo-Renaissance, originating from France,<ref name=copplestone />{{rp|311}} is sometimes known as the "Second Empire" style, by now it also incorporated some [[Baroque]] elements. By 1875 it had become the accepted style in Europe for all public and bureaucratic buildings.<ref name=copplestone />{{rp|p. 311; caption 938}} In England, where Sir [[George Gilbert Scott]] designed the London [[Foreign Office]] in this style between 1860 and 1875, it also incorporated certain [[Palladian]] features.

Starting with the [[orangery]] of [[Sanssouci]] (1851), "the Neo-Renaissance became the obligatory style for university and public buildings, for banks and financial institutions, and for the urban villas" in Germany.<ref>''The Cambridge Companion to Modern German Culture''. Cambridge University Press, 1999. {{ISBN|0-521-56870-6}}. Page 283.</ref> Among the most accomplished examples of the style were Villa Meyer in Dresden, [[Villa Haas]] in [[Hesse]], Palais Borsig in [[Berlin]], Villa Meissner in [[Leipzig]]; the German version of Neo-Renaissance culminated in such projects as the Town Hall in [[Hamburg]] (1886–1897) and the [[Reichstag (building)|Reichstag]] in Berlin (completed in 1894).

In Austria, it was pioneered by such illustrious names as [[Rudolf Eitelberger]], the founder of the Viennese College of Arts and Crafts (today the [[University of Applied Arts Vienna]]). The style found particular favour in [[Vienna]], where whole streets and blocks were built in the so-called Neo-Renaissance style, in reality, a classicizing conglomeration of elements liberally borrowed from different historical periods.

[[File:Hôtel ville façade principale Paris 11.jpg|thumb|left|300px|[[Hôtel de Ville, Paris|Paris' Hôtel de Ville]], completed {{Circa|1880}} in an unequivocal French Neo-Renaissance style]]
[[File:La haye palais paix jardin face.JPG|thumb|250px|[[Peace Palace]] in [[The Hague]], Netherlands, 1913. One of the last notable buildings in this style.]]

Neo-Renaissance was also the favourite style in [[Kingdom of Hungary]] in the 1870s and 1880s. In the fast-growing capital, [[Budapest]] many monumental public buildings were built in Neo-Renaissance style like [[Saint Stephen's Basilica]] and the [[Hungarian State Opera House]]. [[Andrássy Avenue]] is an outstanding ensemble of Neo-Renaissance townhouses from the last decades of the 19th century. The most famous Hungarian architect of the age, [[Miklós Ybl]] preferred Neo-Renaissance in his works.

In Russia, the style was pioneered by [[Auguste de Montferrand]] in the [[Demidov House]] (1835), the first in [[Saint Petersburg]] to take "a story-by-story approach to façade ornamentation, in contrast to the classical method, where the façade was conceived as a unit."<ref name=buckler>Julie A. Buckler. ''Mapping St. Petersburg: Imperial Text and Cityshape''. Princeton University Press, 2004. {{ISBN|0-691-11349-1}}.</ref>{{rp|44}} [[Konstantin Thon]], the most popular Russian architect of the time, used Italianate elements profusely for decorating some interiors of the [[Grand Kremlin Palace]] (1837–1851). Another fashionable architect, [[Andrei Stackenschneider]], was responsible for [[Mariinsky Palace]] (1839–1844), with "the faceted rough-hewn stone of the first floor" reminiscent of 16th-century Italian palazzi.<ref name=buckler />{{rp|45}}

The style was further elaborated by architects of the [[Vladimir Palace]] (1867–1872) and culminated in the [[Stieglitz Museum]] (1885–1896). In [[Moscow]], the Neo-Renaissance was less prevalent than in the Northern capital, although interiors of the neo-Muscovite [[Moscow City Hall|City Duma]] (1890–1892) were executed with emphasis on Florentine and Venetian décor. While the Neo-Renaissance is associated primarily with secular buildings, Princes [[Yusupov]] commissioned the interior of their palace church (1909–1916) near [[Moscow]] to be decorated in strict imitation of the 16th-century Venetian churches.

===North America===
[[File:Biltmore Estate.jpg|thumb|350px|[[Biltmore House]] in [[Asheville, North Carolina]] (United States), owned by the [[Vanderbilt family]], 1888–1895]]

The style spread to [[North America]], where it became a favourite domestic architectural style of the wealthiest Americans. [[The Breakers]] in [[Newport, Rhode Island]], was a residence of the [[Vanderbilt family]] designed by [[Richard Morris Hunt]] in 1892; it and contemporaneous [[Gilded Age]] mansions exemplify the ambitions of wealthy Americans in equaling and surpassing the ostentatious lifestyles of European aristocrats. During the latter half of the 19th century [[Fifth Avenue|5th Avenue]] in [[New York City]] was lined with "Renaissance" French chateaux and Italian [[palazzo|palazzi]], all designed in Neo-Renaissance styles. Most of these have since been demolished.

==Features==
[[File:Chambord - château, terrasses (33).jpg|thumb|left|180px|Staircase at the [[Château de Chambord]] completed in 1547. Variations of this design became a popular feature of the Neo-Renaissance.]]

One of the most widely copied features of Renaissance architecture were the great staircases from the chateaux of [[Chateau de Blois|Blois]] and [[Château de Chambord|Chambord]].<ref>[http://portal.unesco.org/culture/en/ev.php-URL_ID=27457&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html Chateau de Chambord] retrieved 19 April 2006</ref> Blois had been the favourite residence of the [[List of French monarchs|French Kings]] throughout the renaissance. The [[Francis I of France|Francis I]] wing, completed in 1524,  of which the staircase is an integral part was one of the earliest examples of [[French Renaissance]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.castles.org/castles/Europe/Western_Europe/France/france110.htm |title=Chateau de Blois |publisher=Castles.org |access-date=11 June 2011}}</ref> French renaissance architecture was a combination of the earlier [[Gothic architecture|Gothic]] style coupled with a strong Italian influence represented by arches, arcades, balustrading and, in general, a more flowing line of design than had been apparent in the earlier Gothic. The Chateau de Blois's triumphal staircase was imitated almost from the moment of its completion, and was certainly the predecessor of the "double staircase" (sometimes attributed to [[Leonardo da Vinci]]) at the [[Château de Chambord]] just a few years later.

A Grand Staircase whether based on that of Blois, or the [[Villa Farnese]] was to become one of the features of Neo-Renaissance design. It became a common feature for the staircase to be not just a feature of the internal architecture but also the external. But whereas at Blois the stairs had been open to the elements in the 19th century new and innovative use of glass was able to give protection from the weather, giving the staircase the appearance of being in the true renaissance open style, when it was in fact a truly internal feature. Further and more adventurous use of glass also enabled the open and arcaded Renaissance courtyards to be reproduced as lofty halls with glazed roofs. This was a feature at Mentmore Towers and on a far larger scale at the [[Warsaw University of Technology]], where the large glazed court contained a monumental staircase. The "Warsaw University of Technology staircase", though if Renaissance in spirit at all, is more in the lighter, more [[column]]ed style of [[Ottaviano Nonni]]'s (named il Mascherino) staircase designed for [[Pope]] [[Gregory XIII]] at Rome's [[Quirinal Palace|Palazzo Quirinale]] in 1584, thus demonstrating that architects wherever their location were selecting their Neo-Renaissance styles regardless of geography

==Combined historicism==

===Gothic influences on the Renaissance Revival===
{{See also|Gothic Revival architecture|Scottish baronial architecture}}
[[File:Neorenaissancedoor.gif|thumb|right|150px|This Renaissance Revival doorway illustrates a [[French Gothic architecture|Gothic]] influence on French Renaissance design. A basket-handle portal is surmounted by a floral [[ogee]] hood moulding.]]

Gothic influences on both period and revived Renaissance architecture are readily apparent, first as much building occurred during the period of transition from the Gothic to the Renaissance style; and also as Renaissance−era design took the form of the addition of Renaissance ornamentation to Gothic−era buildings thus creating an accretion of details from disparate sources. Architects who designed in the Renaissance Revival style usually avoided any references to [[Gothic Revival]] architecture, drawing instead on a variety of other classically based styles. {{Citation needed|date=March 2011}}  However, there are exceptions and occasionally the two distinct styles are mixed. The sub-variety of Gothic design most frequently employed is floral [[Venetian Gothic architecture|Venetian Gothic]]{{Citation needed|date=July 2018}}, as seen in the [[Doge's Palace#Courtyard|Doge's Palace]] courtyard, built in the 1480s.

===Baroque influences on the Renaissance Revival===
{{See also|Baroque Revival architecture}}
[[File:Wut-interior.jpg|thumb|left|160px|The staircase at the [[Warsaw University of Technology]], with strong [[Baroque Revival architecture|Baroque Revival]] influences.]]
A common [[Baroque architecture|Baroque]] feature introduced into the Renaissance Revival styles was the "imperial staircase" (a single straight flight dividing into two separate flights).

The [[staircase]] at [[Mentmore Towers]] designed by Joseph Paxton, and the one at the [[Warsaw University of Technology]] designed by Bronisław Rogóyski and [[Stefan Szyller]] (late 19th century), both rise from [[pastiche]]s of true Renaissance courtyards. Both staircases seem more akin to [[Balthasar Neumann]]'s great Baroque staircase at the {{lang|de|[[Würzburg Residenz]]}} than anything found in a true Renaissance Palazzo. The apparent Baroque style staircase at Mentmore is not without a Renaissance influence, its first flight is similar to "The staircase of the Giants" rises from the Doge's Palace Courtyard, designed when the Venetian Gothic was being uncomfortably merged with Renaissance style. Similarly to that at Mentmore, the Staircase of the Giant's terminates on to an arcaded loggia. Perhaps not ironically the Hall and Staircase at Mentmore were designed by Paxton to display furniture formerly housed in the Doge's Palace.

Paris is home to many historicist buildings that partake equally from Renaissance and Baroque source material, such as the [[Opera Garnier]]. However, the Parisian {{Lang|fr|[[Hôtel de Ville, Paris|Hôtel de Ville]]|italic=no}} faithfully replicates the true [[French Renaissance architecture|French Renaissance]] style, complete with the steeply pitched roofs and towers, as it was a reconstruction, completed {{Circa|1880}}, of the previous {{Lang|fr|Hôtel de Ville|italic=no}}.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.aviewoncities.com/paris/hoteldeville.htm |title=Hôtel de Ville |publisher=Aviewoncities.com |access-date=11 June 2011}}</ref>

In the [[British Raj]] in 1880, the [[façade]]s of the 1777 [[Writers' building]] in [[Kolkata]] were redesigned in the Renaissance Revival style then popular in colonial India, though this version was remarkable in its unique design. Loggias of [[Palladian window|Serlian arches]] deceptively form an almost Indian appearance, yet they sit beneath a [[mansard]] roof. In what at first glance appears an Indian building, on closer examination shows a Historicist example of Classical [[Palladian architecture|Palladianism]] combined with the French Renaissance, a uniquely distinctive interpretation of the Renaissance Revival style.

==Renaissance Revival interiors==
[[File:Hubert Robert 003.jpg|thumb|True [[Renaissance]]: The [[Villa Farnese]]: the curved staircase, tall segmented windows, and marble [[baluster|balustrading]] were all features frequently reproduced in the 19th century revival.]]

As mentioned above, the Neo-Renaissance style was in reality an eclectic blending of past styles, which the architect selected on the whims of his patrons. In the true Renaissance era there was a [[division of labour]] between the architect, who designed the exterior highly visible shell, and others—the artisans—who decorated and arranged the interior.<ref name="autogenerated1966">Dal Lago, Adalbert (1966). ''Ville Antiche''. Milan: Fratelli Fabbri.</ref> The original Italian mannerist house was a place for relaxation and entertaining, convenience and comfort of the interior being a priority; in the later Baroque designs, comfort and [[interior design]] were secondary to outward appearance. This was followed by the [[Neoclassical architecture|Neoclassical]] period, which gave importance to the proportions and dignity of interiors, but still lost the comfort and internal convenience of the mannerist period. It was during the Neo-Renaissance period of the 19th century that the mannerist comforts were re-discovered and taken a step further. Not only did the improved building techniques of the 1850s allow the [[glass|glazing]] of formerly open [[loggia]]s and [[arch]]es with the newly invented sheets of plate glass, providing the first "picture windows", but also the blending of architectural styles allowed interiors and exteriors to be treated differently. It was at this time that the concept of "furnishing styles" manifested itself, allowing distinctions to be made between interior rooms and external appearances, and indeed between the various rooms themselves.<ref name="autogenerated1966" /> Thus the modern concept of treating a room individually, and differently from its setting and neighbours, came into its infancy. Classic examples of this are the great [[Rothschild properties in Buckinghamshire|Rothschild house in Buckinghamshire]], [[Cross-genre|hybrids]] of various Renaissance [[chateau]]x, and 16th century [[English country house]]s, all with interiors ranging from "Versailles" to "[[Medici]]", and in the case of Mentmore Towers a huge central hall, resembling the arcaded courtyard of a Renaissance villa, conveniently glazed over, furnished in [[Venice|Venetian]] style and heated by a fireplace designed by [[Peter Paul Rubens|Rubens]] for his house in Antwerp<ref>Sotheby's. ''Mentmore''</ref>

==Legacy==
By the beginning of the 20th century, Neo-Renaissance was a commonplace sight on the main streets of thousands of towns, large and small, around the world. In [[southern Europe]] the Neo-Renaissance style began to fall from favour {{Circa|1900}}. However, it was still extensively practiced in the 1910s in [[Saint Petersburg]] and [[Buenos Aires]] by such architects as [[Leon Benois]], [[Marian Peretyatkovich]], or [[Francisco Tamburini]] ([[:File:Buenos Aires-ColonTeatre-P3050009.jpg|picture]]).

In England it was so common that today one finds "Renaissance Italian Palazzi" serving as banks or municipal buildings in the centres of even the smallest towns. It has been said "''It is a well-known fact that the nineteenth century had no art style of its own.''"<ref>Lessenich, Rolf P. [https://web.archive.org/web/20041116165123/http://www.uni-erfurt.de/eestudies/eese/artic24/rless/1_2004.html "Ideals Versus Realities: Nineteenth-Century Decadent Identity and the Renaissance"].  2004-01. Accessed 10 November 2013.</ref>  While to an extent this may be true, the same could be said of most eras until the early 20th century, the Neo-Renaissance in the hands of provincial architects did develop into a style not always instantly recognisable as a derivative of the Renaissance. In this less obvious guise the Neo-Renaissance was to provide an important undercurrent in totalitarian architecture of various countries, notably in [[Stalinist architecture]] of the [[Soviet Union]], as seen in some pavilions of the [[All-Soviet Exhibition Centre]].

Neo-Renaissance architecture, because of its diversity, is perhaps the only style of architecture to have existed in so many forms, yet still common to so many countries.

<gallery>
File:Semperoper at night.jpg|[[Gottfried Semper]]'s [[Dresden]] [[Semperoper|Semper Opera House]] of 1870, incorporating both [[Baroque]] and [[Renaissance]] architectural features
File:Yar april 16.jpg|Neo-Renaissance Russian style: a little recorded, Neo-Renaissance building showing [[Baroque]] and [[Rococo]] influences in [[Yaroslavl]], Russia
File:2315 Collingwood Boulevard, exterior views, 2019 - DPLA - e52be4941ff9dcd05bfaba86ebe517a4 (page 1).jpg|First Congregational Church in Toledo, Ohio, 2019, built in the Italian Renaissance style and featuring windows created by [[Louis Comfort Tiffany]]
File:Kuopion kaupungintalo.jpg|Neo-Renaissance-styled [[Kuopio Town Hall]] from 1886, designed by [[F. A. Sjöström]] 
File:Rijksmuseum 2024.jpg|[[Rijksmuseum]] ([[Amsterdam]]) from 1885, designed by [[Pierre Cuypers]]
</gallery>

==References==
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==External links==
* Rosanna Pavoni, editor (1997) ''Reviving the Renaissance: The Use and Abuse of the Past in Nineteenth-Century Italian Art and Decoration'' in Series: Cambridge Studies in Italian History and Culture (Cambridge University Press) {{ISBN|0-521-48151-1}}. The first assessment of the Renaissance Revival in post-Unification Italy. [http://www.cambridge.org/us/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=0521481511 Book synopsis]
* Marek Zgórniak, ''Wokół neorenesansu w architekturze XIX wieku'', Kraków 1987. {{ISBN|83-233-0187-5}}. General study. See [http://users.uj.edu.pl/~zgorniak/publikacje/NeoRenaissance.pdf abstract] on the author's page.
* [http://www.archimon.nl/history/otherneostyles.html "History & styles: The other neo-styles of the 19th century"]
* Paolo Coen, ''Il recupero del Rinascimento. Arte, politica e mercato nei primi decenni di Roma capitale (1870-1911)'', Cinisello Balsamo, Silvana Editoriale, 2020, ISBN 9788836645435.

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