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Renaissance Architecture. Second Period : Advanced Renaissance, 1500 — 1580. As long as Florence was the home of the new style, it retained its transitional character, the result of the com- bination of mediaeval and antique forms ; but in 1500 the Fig. 49.— Court of the Canee'laria Palace at Rome. scene and destiny of the Renaissance alike underwent a change. Julius II., an enthusiastic lover of art, attracted the greatest masters of the day to his court, and Rome became the centre of the art world, as it had long been of the religious. For a period of twenty years the classic sculpture of the age of Pericles and the best monuments of Roman