Leon Battista Alberti - Architectural Works

Architectural Works

For the Rucellai family in Florence Alberti designed several buildings, the façade of Palazzo Rucellai, executed by Bernardo Rosselino, the façade of Santa Maria Novella, the marble-clad shrine of the Holy Sepulchre, and perhaps also the Capella Rucellai.

Some dates vary from source to source; these come from Franco Borsi. Leon Battista Alberti. (New York: Harper & Row, 1977)

  • S. Francesco, Tempio Malatestiano, Rimini (1447, 1453–60)
  • Façade of Palazzo Rucellai (1446–51)
  • Completion of the facade of Santa Maria Novella, Florence (1448–70).
  • San Sebastiano, Mantua (begun 1458)
  • Pienza, possibly as consultant (1459–62)
  • Sepolcro Rucellai in San Pancrazio (1467)
  • Tribune for Santissima Annunziata, Florence (1470, completed with alterations, 1477).
  • Sant'Andrea, Mantua (begun 1471)

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