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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.
Nannina was brought to her husband's house five years later, on 8 June 1466. The wedding feast was famous for its opulence: 500 guests were seated on a daïs which occupied the loggia and the whole of the piazza and the street in front of Palazzo Rucellai. [3] Giovanni di Paolo was the effective head of the Rucellai family.
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: 1446–1488: Filippo Brunelleschi and others: Palazzo dello Strozzino: 1451–1469
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 .
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 ]
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.
Since 1 November 2006 it is located in the Ospedale di San Paolo, a former pilgrims' hostel that was later transformed into a school. Before that, the museum was in the Palazzo Rucellai and in the premises of the Fratelli Alinari. It was the first museum of Italy to be devoted exclusively to photography.
The Palazzo Rucellai, probably of the 1460s, begins to classicize such facades, using smooth-faced rustication throughout, except for the pilasters at each level. In Rome, Donato Bramante 's Palazzo Caprini ("House of Raphael", by 1510, now destroyed) provided a standard model for the integration of rustication with the orders.