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Palazzo Rucellai is a palatial fifteenth-century townhouse on the Via della Vigna Nuova in Florence, Italy. The Rucellai Palace is believed by most scholars to have been designed for Giovanni di Paolo Rucellai by Leon Battista Alberti between 1446 and 1451 and executed, at least in part, by Bernardo Rossellino .
Giovanni di Paolo was an important patron of the arts, matched only by Cosimo de' Medici in fifteenth-century Florence. [4]: 105 He commissioned the building of the Palazzo Rucellai, designed by Leon Battista Alberti, and of the Loggia Rucellai. [1]
The Piazza de' Rucellai is a piazza in Florence, Italy, home to the Palazzo Rucellai designed by Leon Battista Alberti [1] and its loggia. It is a small triangular ...
Palazzo Municipale of Ferrara. Palazzo della Ragione (Ferrara) Palazzo di San Crispino; Palazzo Bentivoglio, Ferrara; Palazzo Bevilacqua-Costabili, Ferrara
Zucchi's frescoes on gallery ceiling. By the 16th century, the site of the palace was home to the Jacobbili family, and in 1583, it was sold to the Florentine mercantile family of the Rucellai. [1]
The Rucellai Sepulchre is a small funerary chapel built inside the Rucellai Chapel of the church of San Pancrazio, Florence. It was commissioned by Giovanni di Paolo Rucellai and built to designs by Leon Battista Alberti in imitation or emulation of the Holy Sepulchre in the Anastasis in Jerusalem .
De re aedificatoria, title page of the 1541 edition Title page of 1550 edition, Florence. De re aedificatoria (On the Art of Building) is a classic architectural treatise written by Leon Battista Alberti between 1443 and 1452. [1]
The Loggia Rucellai is an Italian Renaissance loggia in Florence, Italy. It stands opposite Palazzo Rucellai in the Via della Vigna Nuova, and faces onto Piazza de' Rucellai . It was built by Giovanni di Paolo Rucellai in the 1460s; it may have been designed by Leon Battista Alberti , but this attribution is disputed. [ 1 ]