Palazzo Rucellai

The Palazzo Rucellai is an important building in the Renaissance style in Florence. He was commissioned by Giovanni Rucellai (1403-1481) commissioned in 1446. The original design was by architect Leon Battista Alberti, the actual execution then undertook Bernardo Rosselino. The loggia was built the palace 1458th also applies in the building as a work of Alberti.

The complex has a classical harmonic structure, especially in comparison with the almost simultaneous, but still many late Gothic elements having Palazzo Medici shows the evolution of styles. Revolutionary is particularly Alberti coherent blend of the façade ( it was 1455 ), which first receives with its succession of classical orders of columns ( Doric, Ionic and Corinthian capitals ) the classical motif of the decorative facade antique Greek buildings back into secular buildings of the early modern period. In this case, however, Alberti changed the design of the plastic wall reliefs in a way that the façade is conceived now graphically: The little emerging from the wall escape pilasters act as smooth stripes, which are surrounded by masonry with buoyant internal drawing. In addition to the atrial especially the grave chapel in San Pancrazio is worth seeing, in which is located the formed after the model of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem grave monument for Giovanni Rucellai, the Alberti designed in 1467.