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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 .
Leon Battista Alberti: Former church of San Pancrazio: 1375–1470: Leon Battista Alberti and others: Palazzo Medici Riccardi: 1444–1469: Michelozzo: Basilica of Santissima Annuziata and convent: 1444–1476: Michelozzo and others: Palazzo Rucellai: 1446–1451: Leon Battista Alberti and Bernardo Rossellino: Church of Santo Spirito: 1446 ...
Leon Battista Alberti is a major character in Roberto Rossellini's three-part television film The Age of the Medici (1973), with the third and final part, Leon Battista Alberti: Humanism, centering on him, his works (such as Santa Maria Novella), and his thought. He is played by Italian actor Virginio Gazzolo.
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 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. It contains the tombs of Giovanni Rucellai and ...
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 square. It is a small triangular square.
The Platonic Academy of Florence (Italian: Accademia Platonica di Firenze) was an informal discussion group which formed around Marsilio Ficino in the Florentine Renaissance of the fifteenth century. [ 1 ] : 57 [ 2 ] : 132 [ 3 ] : 458 [ 4 ] [ 5 ] : 150
Giovanni di Paolo Rucellai commissioned Leon Battista Alberti to build him a tomb in the family chapel in the church. [2] Giorgio Vasari wrote of it in 1568: [3] [note 1]. For the same Rucellai family Leon Battista [Alberti] made in the same way [i.e., with architraves supported by columns] in San Pancrazio a chapel supported by large architraves placed on two columns and two pilasters ...