Palazzo

Below is a short sample of the essay Palazzo. If you sign up you could be reading the rest of this essay in under two minutes. Registered users should login to view the essay.

Palazzo
Ruccelai


The Palazzo Ruccelai was one of the first works by Leon Battista
Alberti.
He was an Italian architect, architectural theorist, and universal genius.
Albert was the most important early Renaissance architect after Filippo
Brunelleschi (Gympel, 44). The "Palazzo" originated in Florence. The
monumental private building is derived from "palatium." This Latin
word comes from the Roman hill which Emperor Augustus and his successors lived.
During the 13th and 14th centuries, many of Italian towns were destroyed during
the power struggles. This explains why the exterior of the Early Renaissance
palaces were dark, defensive, raw and uninvited (Gympel, 44). Construction on
the Palazzo Ruccelai began somewhere between 1455 and 1460. Leon Batista Alberti
designed the original Palace to have five bays, the center being where the door
was located. Later on, two more bays were added by someone else (class notes
1/19/00). There are three stories on this building. Each story is equal in
height and rustication is uniform. This "evenness" is what gives the
Renaissance its name. Most buildings made at this time have similar attributes.
Each story has its own column capital to it. The ground floor has the Tucson
order, the middle floor has Alberti's own design, and the top floor has the
Corinthian order. I thought in Leon Battista Alberti's treaty, The Ten Books of
Architecture, I would find out what each of the column capitals meant to him,
but all I could find is dimension requirements for each order. The Colosseum has
similarities with the Palazzo Ruccelai also. I believe some of Alberti's ideas
came fro...

The complete article is about 502 words and 2.01 pages long.

To continue reading the complete article, subscribe below and get free instant unlimited access.

Once you have registered for an Account, No refunds can be issued.
Please make sure you look over the site before you purchase an account!!!