Santa Maria Novella
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Santa Maria Novella is a Dominican church in Florence. It is considered the most important Romano-Gothic church in Tuscany and is a World Heritage Site. Its construction started in 1290 and it took al
The façade of Santa Maria Novella, completed by Leon Battista Alberti in 1470
Photo from the early 20th century.
View of the apse from Piazza della Stazione.
Side view from Piazza Unità d'Italia.
Leon Battista Alberti
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Leon Battista Alberti was an Italian Renaissance humanist author, artist, architect, poet, priest, linguist, philosopher, and cryptographer; he epitomised the nature of those identified now as polymat
Santa Maria Novella
…It was consecrated in 1420. Its distinctive façade has geometric patterns made from white and green marble. The Florentine Renaissance architect Leon Battista designed the upper part of the façade, finished in 1470. Its two most famous artworks are Giotto's Crucifix, that changed the way that Christ had been…
Presumed self-portrait of Alberti
A portrait of Alberti by Filippino Lippi is thought to exist in the Brancacci Chapel, as part of Lippi's completion of the Masaccio painting, the Raising of the Son of Theophilus and St. Peter Enthroned.
Palazzo Rucellai
English title page of the first edition of Giacomo Leoni's translation of Alberti's De Re Aedificatoria (1452); the book is bilingual, with the Italian version being printed on the left and the English version printed on the right.