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  The Influence of Classical Antiquity on Italian Renaissance Architecture The term 'Renaissance' (from the French renaissance , "rebirth") was coined in the nineteenth century to represent Italy's cultural and intellectual developments during the fifteenth century. The arrival of scholars escaping Constantinople who had maintained old classical learnings inspired the Italians to start rediscovering and examining Roman and Greek texts and buildings to reclaim what was lost to Europe in the Middle Ages and then to find ways of implementing this learning in their times. The ancient Romans attempted to develop architectural representations of their empire's glories by expanding on earlier orders of Greek architecture and surpassing them by adding domes, arches, arcades, and fluted columns to their architectural language. The paper explores the remarkable impact of classical antiquity on Renaissance architecture and interior by examining some notable architectur...