Renaissance Architecture/development of Renaissance Architecture in Italy

Famous quotes containing the words architecture, development and/or italy:

    “They can do without architecture who have no olives nor wines in the cellar.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “To be sure, we have inherited abilities, but our development we owe to thousands of influences coming from the world around us from which we appropriate what we can and what is suitable to us.”
    —Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749–1832)

    “Lump the whole thing! Say that the Creator made Italy from designs by Michael Angelo!”
    —Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)