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The Façade. Palazzo Rucellai is a landmark Renaissance palace whose façade was designed by the renowned humanist and architect Leon Battista Alberti between 1446 and 1451. This splendid work shimmers with the full spirit of fifteenth-century humanism. The structural elements of ancient Rome are replicated in the arches, pilasters, and ...
6 de dic. de 2023 · The main difference between the Palazzo Rucellai and other palazzi was Alberti’s reliance on ancient Rome. This may have reflected Giovanni Rucellai’s pretensions for his family. Rome was the seat of the papacy, and though Rucellai was not a cleric, he claimed to have descended from a Templar. The Palazzo Rucellai went on to influence the ...
13 de feb. de 2013 · It was the modest tomb chapel of the patron, Giovanni Ruccellai, who was pretty much the second richest man in Florence at the time. The idea to have a chapel in this shape occurred to other rich men too, like to Georg Emerich who, after having become knight of the Order of the Holy Sepulchre in 1465 (thanks to a pilgrimage there), had a scale copy of the building made in Görlitz (Germany ...
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 . Stemma Rucellai.
El rico mercader Giovanni Rucellai encargó a Leon Battista Alberti en 1446 el diseño de su palacio familiar, convirtiéndose en una de las mejores realizaciones del Renacimiento florentino. Los trabajos se continuaron cinco años después, siendo el director de las obras Bernardo Rosselino . La construcción consta de tres plantas y se corona ...
By 1446, Giovanni Rucellai had acquired a row of houses along the Via dei Palchetti, no doubt to enlarge his family’s home, in keeping with his growing financial and civic standing. He also gained his mother’s house on her death and the one next to it, and the result was a rather muddled assemblage of buildings.
Thus, Giovanni Rucellai commissioned, in all likelihood, Leon Battista Alberti to design the palace in 1446 – the construction of which lasted until 1451 – though Bernardo Rosellino too is said to have contributed, at least in part, to the erection of the edifice.
