ARTH 1200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Michelozzo, Leon Battista Alberti, Palazzo Rucellai
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Palazzi (palace: not for royalty, but for wealthy families, urban home. Classical inspirations found inside as well, classical arcade, smooth columns with. Writer, painter, sculptor, athlete, architect (renaissance man) Saw his own book about architecture as an updated version of vitruvius. Wall surface treated very differently: used orders as pilasters, new versions of orders that still carry over classical elements (doric, Ionic, corinthian: bottom of building anchored with diamond pattered band, imitation of opus. Reticulatum (roman wall building technique), used as an illusion. Used modules (width of the pilaster: every bay is 4 modules, bays with doors are 4. 5, second level is shorter than first, third is shorter than second. Implications of triumphal arch (arch of titus and arch of constantine: two smaller arches that flanks the main arch turned sideways, into barrel vault with coffered ceiling. Interior layout similar to basillica nova, transverse vaulted arches with coffered ceiling.