Palazzo Rucellai ( Italian. Palazzo Rucellai ) is a Renaissance palace in Florence , designed by Leon Battista Alberti between 1446 and 1451 . and built by Bernardo Rossellino by order of Florentine and Renaissance patron of the arts Giovanni Rucellai (not to be confused with the poet Giovanni Rucellai ).
The facade of the building is considered one of the first examples of secular Renaissance architecture , with pilasters and entablature as the main elements of the composition. Rusted walls give the impression of power, especially the larger rusting on the wall of the first floor, on which the ceahgauz was located. Each of the three floors of the building, like the Roman Colosseum , is decorated with pilasters of one of three different orders : on the first floor is Tuscan (in the Colosseum is Doric), on the second floor Alberti instead of the Ionic order placed pilasters with the original capital designed by him, and the third floor decorates Corinthian order in a somewhat simplified version. The windows on the second and third floors are doubled under the arches .
The courtyard of the palace resembles the courtyard of the Brunelleschi Educational House ( Ospedale degli Innocenti - Innocent Hospital). It is likely that his architect was not Alberti. Opposite the Palazzo stands the Loggia Rucellai Loggia , where receptions and banquets were held for trading partners, weddings were celebrated.
There are no documents testifying to the construction of the Loggia and the Palazzo Leon by Battista Alberti, but this is what Giorgio Vasari asserts in his “ Life History of the Most Famous Painters, Sculptors and Architects ”, published in 1568. [1] .
In daylight
In the evening
Patio
Loggia Rucellai
Notes
- ↑ Vasari, Le Vite delle più eccellenti pittori, scultori, ed architettori, ed. Milanesi, II, pp. 541-542.
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