Palazzo Rucellai (1446-1451) by Leon Battista Alberti @Florence (jul 4, 1446 – aug 12, 1451)

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Designed by Alberti, but executed (an perhaps amended) by Bernardo Rossellino (1409-1464).

A much more thorough attempt to imitate classical architecture than the Palazzo Medici.

This was the first attempt to apply Classical orders (here in the form of pilasters) to a palace front.

Entablatures are used to divide the three storeys.

Pilasters are correctly proportioned and the scheme clearly derives from the Colosseum, wihhc also has different orders on each storey.

However, Alberti uses the Tuscan order on the ground floor and two slightly different forms of Corinthian for the other two.

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