Maina Emanuel Mwangi.

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Born February 18, 1404, Genoa, Italy. He was an Italian author, artist, architect,

poet, Catholic priest, linguist, philosopher, cryptographer and general Renaissance humanist polymath.

He was a theorist and thus is best known for his writings other than his building.

He wrote “De re aedificatoria”. On the art of building.

Died: April 20, 1472, Rome, Italy

His works include: 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) Sepolcro Rucellai in San Pancrazio (1467) Tribune for Santissima Annunziata, Florence

(1470, completed with alterations, 1477). Sant'Andrea, Mantua (begun 1471)

Italian for temple of Malatesta.

Considered Alberti’s best architectural piece.

Building was completed in 1468.

It was originally a 13th century gothic church.

Malatesta, a prince, asked Alberti to make him and his wife a mausoleum.

It wasn’t completed due to lack of funds.

Interior

Palazzo Rucellai is a landmark Renaissance palace in Florence, Italy, whose façade was designed by the renowned humanist and architect Leon Battista Alberti and erected between 1446 and 1451. .

Rucellai sephulcture. Giovanni di Paolo

Rucellai commissioned Leon Battista Alberti to build him a tomb in the family chapel in the church.

Inside are tombs of Giovanni and his family.

1467

Before Alberti the façade was bare but he came up with a solution using a rigid Gothic structure.

It was influenced by the then recently rediscovered geometric and mathematical studies applied to nature and art.

Built according to Alberti’s designs, it is an Early Renaissance church.

Begun in 1460 it was left partially completed in the mid 1470s as Alberti was no longer in charge of its construction.

The façade is precisely as wide as its height from the entrance level to the apex of the pediment; it may be fitted with the perfect geometry of the square.

In 1252 a painting of the annunciation was begun by a monk but he couldn’t finish because he didn’t think it was good enough.

In his sleep an angel finished it.

It was highly venerated. In 1444 The Gonzaga

family financed a tribune and Alberti was commissioned to build it.

the church was begun in 1462 according to designs by Leon Battista Alberti.

The building, however, was finished only 328 years later.

Though later changes and expansions altered Alberti's design, the church is still considered to be one of Alberti's most complete works.

It is in the shape of a cross.

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