Palazzo Rucellai
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Palazzo Rucellai is a Renaissance palace in Florence, Italy, designed by Leon Battista Alberti between 1446 and 1451. Its splendid facade is severely Roman in form and detail. The rusticated masonry creates an impression of strength, especially on the ground floor, which contained storerooms. The three stories of its facade have different classical orders, as in the Colosseum, but with the Tuscan order at the base, an Alberti original in place of Ionic order at the second level, and a Corinthian order at the higher level. There are beautiful double windows on the upper storeys. The palace is built around a central court, similar in arrangement to monastic cloisters, but mainly adapted from Brunelleschi's forms in the loggia of the Foundling Hospital.
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- Images of Palazzo Rucellai
- [Great Architecture of the World. John Julius Norwich.150]
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