Renaissance Revival architecture

Schwerin Palace in Mecklenburg (Germany), completed in 1857 Waddesdon Manor in Buckinghamshire (England), seat of the Rothschild family, 1874

Renaissance Revival architecture (also referred to as "Neo-Renaissance") is a group of 19th-century architectural revival styles which were neither Greek Revival nor Gothic Revival but which instead drew inspiration from a wide range of Renaissance architecture 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 Mannerist. 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).