7. Leon Battista Alberti, west façade of the Santa Maria Novella, Florence, Italy, 1456-1470
8. Leon Battista Alberti and Bernardo Rossellino, Palazzo Rucellai, Florence, Italy, c. 1452-1470
9. Leon Battista Alberti, west façade of Sant’Andrea, Mantua, Italy, designed 1470,began 1472
10. Works Cited Adams, Laura Schneider. Art Across Time. “Early Renaissance.” McGraw Hill. New York. 2011. 4th Edition. Kleiner, Fred S. Gardner’s Art Through the Ages. “Italy 1400 to 1500.” Wadsworth Cengage Learning. Boston. 2009, 13th Edition. Patton, S. C. Brunelleschi’s Dome. 2008. On Line Video. Youtube.com. February 13, 2011. http://www.youtube.com/user/scpatton26#p/a/u/1/SFvxKv8Jh2k “BRUNELLESCHI'S OSPEDALE DEGLI INNOCENTI.” Paradoxplace.com. 2011. http://www.paradoxplace.com/Perspectives/Italian%20Images/Montages/ Firenze/Foundling%20Hospital/Foundling_Hospital.htm
Editor's Notes
Brunelleschi first catapulted to architectural fame with his design and subsequent building management in the 1420s of the SpedaledegliInnocenti (Foundling Hospital) between San Marco and the Duomo in Florence. The elegant colonnaded facade was a completely new look (as was much of the hospital design) which launched Renaissance Architecture. Sadly it also sounded the death knell on most Romanesque and earlier stuff that ended up being demolished to make way for the Renaissance - so much so that there is now only one Romanesque cloister left in the whole of Tuscany (at Torri, west of Siena).
