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Giovanni di Paolo was the effective head of the Rucellai family. He served as Prior in 1463 and as Gonfaloniere di Giustizia in 1475. He died in Florence in 1481 and was buried in the Rucellai Sepulchre. Patronage. Giovanni di Paolo was an important patron of the arts, matched only by Cosimo de' Medici in fifteenth-century Florence.
Giovanni Rucellai ( Florencia; 20 de octubre de 1475 - Roma; 3 de abril de 1525); intelectual, poeta, humanista y dramaturgo italiano del Renacimiento. También destacó dentro de la política y el comercio, siendo cabeza de la prestigiosa familia Rucellai. Primo del papa León X, murió en Roma.
Giovanni Rucellai, detto Giovanni di Paolo o Giovanni I per distinguerlo da suo nipote omonimo Giovanni Rucellai (Firenze, 26 dicembre 1403 – Firenze, 1481), è stato un mercante, umanista e scrittore italiano, importante mecenate della Firenze rinascimentale.
Italian merchant and banker. Learn about this topic in these articles: history of Florence. In Florence: The early period. …chiefly Cosimo de’ Medici and Giovanni Rucellai in the 15th century, were able to shape civic politics and culture through a system of oligarchy and patronage.
Giovanni Rucellai — a crucial, many-sided, and controversial figure of Quattrocento Florence — became a subject of historical fascination and opposing viewpoints by eminent Renaissance scholars from the nineteenth century onward.
Rucellai Chapel. In the second half of the 14 th Century, through the initiative of Giovanni di Paolo Rucellai, distinguished member of the family giving patronage to the main chapel of the church, brought to light a side chapel – the first, on the west side of the church – one of the “wonders” of the florentine Renaissance, the tomb of ...
Alberti constructed the façade of the Palazzo over a period of five years, from 1446–51; the home was just one of many important commissions that Alberti completed for the Rucellais—a wealthy merchant family. Leon Battista Alberti, Palazzo Rucellai, c. 1446–51, Florence, Italy (photo: Steven Zucker, CC BY-NC-SA 2.0) Three tiers.
