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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