Alberti and Bartolomeo Created by: Shaina and

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The Early Renaissance Leone Battista Alberti

(February 14, 1404 – April 20, 1472)› S. Maria Novella, Florence

Alberti designed the façade The first completed design for a

church façade of the Renaissance

The Early Renaissance Leone Battista Alberti

› A classical theorist who approached architecture as a way to express his philosophy of design

› Revised the De architectura libri decem (Ten Books on Architecture) Completed 1452

Title: Facade of Palazzo Rucellai, FlorenceArtist: Leon Battista AlbertiDate: 1446-1451

Title: Facade of Santa Maria Novella, FlorenceArtist: Leon Battista AlbertiDate: 1458-1470

LEON BATTISTA ALBERTI, interior of Sant’Andrea (looking northeast), Mantua,

Italy, designed 1470, begun 1472

The Early Renaissance Michelozzo di Bartolomeo (1396–

1472) › an Italian architect and sculptor› A capable architect and was awarded

several commissions› He is buried in the monastery of San

Marco, Florence.

Villa Medici in Fiesole

MICHELOZZO DI BARTOLOMMEO, facade of the Palazzo Medici-Riccardi, Florence, Italy, begun 1445

Courtyard of Palazzo Medici