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This is a list of the main architectural works in Florence, Italy by period. It also includes buildings in surrounding cities, such as Fiesole . Some structures appear two or more times, since they were built in various styles.
The Palazzo Medici, also called the Palazzo Medici Riccardi after the later family that acquired and expanded it, is a 15th-century Renaissance palace in Florence, Italy. It was built for the Medici family, who dominated the politics of the Republic of Florence. It is now the seat of the administration of the Metropolitan City of Florence and a ...
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.
Florence contains numerous museums and art galleries where some of the world's most important works of art are held. The city is one of the best preserved Renaissance centres of art and architecture in the world and has a high concentration of art, architecture and culture. [108]
The historic centre of Florence is part of quartiere 1 of the Italian city of Florence. This quarter was named a World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 1982. [1] [2] Built on the site of an Etruscan settlement, Florence, the symbol of the Renaissance, rose to economic and cultural pre-eminence under the Medici in the 15th and 16th centuries.
The Basilica of San Lorenzo demonstrates many innovative features of the developing style of Renaissance architecture, a simple mathematical proportional relationship using the square aisle bay as a module and the nave bays in a 2x1 ratio; the use of an integrated system of column, arches, and entablatures, based on Roman Classical models
The entrance to Palazzo Magnani Feroni. The Palazzo Magnani Feroni is a Renaissance Palace in Florence, central Italy, dating back to the 15th century.It is built in the purest Florentine style and is decorated and adorned with statues, paintings and frescoes dating from the 16th century.
In southern Italy, Renaissance masters were called to Naples by Alfonso V of Aragon after his conquest of the Kingdom of Naples. The most notable examples of Renaissance architecture in that city are the Cappella Caracciolo, attributed to Bramante, and the Palazzo Orsini di Gravina, built by Gabriele d'Angelo between 1513 and 1549.