Leon Battista Alberti (1404 - 1472) and the Humanist Ideal

Palazzo Rucellai, Florence (begun c. 1445)

Palazzo Rucellai.jpg (128903 bytes)

Facade unifying assemblage of eight different properties gradually acquired by Giovanni Rucellai








 


Santa Maria Novella, Florence (begun c. 1458)

 Sta Maria Novella.jpg (102925 bytes)


Facade by Alberti completing pre-existing church. Note the use of the Temple front motif on the upper story and the volutes linking it to the wider lower story






San Francesco, the Tempio Malatestiana, Rimini, Italy (begun c. 1450)

coin.jpg (68859 bytes)


Portrait medal of Sigismondo Malatesta, the patron, showing Alberti's original intentions for the encasing the gothic church of San Francesco and creating a domed rotonda at the East end to house Sigismondo's tomb.













Sant'Andrea, Mantua (begun 1470)

 Church of Sant'Andrea.jpg (94425 bytes)

Facade combining triumphal arch and temple front motifs