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Palazzo Rucellai; Rucellai Palace Other Title(s) Palazzo Rucellai; Rucellai Palace Title Palazzo Rucellai; Rucellai Palace Record Type copy image Type of Work Architecture; Renaissance Architecture; Palace Creator (Artist/Architect) Alberti, Leon Battista (1404-1472) Rossellino, Bernardo (1409-1464) Date 1446-1451 Location Italy; Florence; Via della Vigna Nuova Style Renaissance; Early Renaissance Period 15th c Culture Italian Description/Notes Commissioned by Giovanni Rucellai (1403-1481)" a wealthy Florentine banker and respected intellectual. Three story, five bay facade. Facade, which was extended at a later date to seven bays, unites several earlier buildings." Faces a small triangular piazza; to the left is the Loggia Rucellai, also designed by Alberti and built by Rossellino. Rights - Deposited Image Charles K. Growdon and Marcia Cohn Growdon View Facade (left side) from across small piazza UNR Accession # 06-MCG-0014-IT

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