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Santa Maria Novella: View of interior courtyard and loggia of the Medieval cloister

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posted on 2017-07-03, 00:00 authored by G. Massiot & cie
When the site was assigned to Dominican Order in 1221, they decided to build a new church and an adjoining cloister.\u000a\u000aThe second design commissioned by Giovanni Rucellai, the spectacular green-and-white patterned stone fa\u00E7ade of S Maria Novella, was begun in or soon after 1458, the year in which Rucellai obtained rights of patronage, and was probably completed in 1470. For this project, Alberti was not only faced with the problem of devising a classical scheme for a church with a tall nave and lower side aisles, but he was also required to incorporate the beginnings of an earlier fa\u00E7ade. To provide a visual transition from the wider lower storey to the narrower upper one, Alberti installed a pair of giant S-shaped scrolls [reversed volutes], inspired by those of Brunelleschi's lantern (designed 1436) at Florence Cathedral.

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Date Created

1910-01-01

Date Modified

2017-07-03

Spatial Coverage

Florence, Tuscany, Italy: Piazza Santa Maria Novella|Florence|+43.774696+11.249088

Temporal Coverage

before or circa 1910

Cultural Context

['Renaissance', 'Medieval']

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To view the physical lantern slide, please contact the Architecture Library.

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