Elaine Padernilla

BS-Architecture 2

Leon Battista Alberti (February 18, 1404 April 25, 1472) was an Italian author,
artist, architect, poet, priest, linguist, philosopher,
and cryptographer,
and
general Renaissance
humanist polymath. In Italy, this first name is usually spelled "Leone", but Alberti is known as Leon.
Alberti's life was described in Giorgio Vasari's Vite. Alberti is often seen as a model of
the Renaissance "universal man.- He was born in Genoa, because the Albertis had been expelled from
their native city, Florence. When he was a child the family moved to Venice. In 1428 Leon visited
Florence at first time.

Late statue of Leon Battista Alberti. Courtyard of the Uffizi Gallery, Florence
Birth name: Leon Battista Alberti
Born:

February 18, 1404, Genoa, Italy

Died: April 25, 1472, Rome

Nationality : Italian
Field: Architecture, Linguistics, Poetry
Movement: Italian Renaissance
Works:

Tempio Malatestiano

Palazzo Rucellai

Santa Maria Novella

Filippo Brunelleschi (1377 April 15, 1446) was one of the most important architects of the Italian
Renaissance. All of his most well-known works are in Florence, Italy.

Born: Filippo di ser Brunellesco di Lippo Lapi

1377, Florence, Italy
Died: April 15, 1446 (aged 6869)
unknown
Known for Architecture, Sculpture, Mechanical engineering
Notable work

: Dome of Santa Maria del Fiore

Movement:
Early Renaissance

The Santa Maria del Fiore cathedral inFlorence

Nave of the Santo Spirito, Florence, 14411481

possesses the largest brick dome in the world,

and is considered a masterpiece of European
architecture.

Section of the dome

Chapel of the Pazzi family, one of his last works

Main works
The principal buildings and works designed by Brunelleschi or which included his involvement:

Dome of the Cathedral of Florence, (1419-1436)

Ospedale degli Innocenti, (1419-ca.1445)

Basilica di San Lorenzo di Firenze, (1419-1480s)

Palazzo di Parte Guelfa, (1420s-1445)

Sagrestia Vecchia, or Old Sacristy of S. Lorenzo, (1421-1440)

Santa Maria degli Angeli: unfinished, (begun 1434)

The lantern of the Florence Cathedral, (1436-ca.1450)

The exedrae of the Florence Cathedral, (1439-1445)

Santo Spirito di Firenze, (1441-1481)

Pazzi Chapel, (1441-1460s)

Giacomo (or Jacopo) Barozzi (or Barocchio) da Vignola (often simply called Vignola) (1 October 1507
7 July 1573) was one of the great Italian architects of 16th century Mannerism. His two great
masterpieces are the Villa Farnese at Caprarola and the Jesuits'Church of the Ges in Rome. The three
architects who spread the Italian Renaissance style throughout Western Europe are Vignola,
Serlio and Palladio.
Born: Giacomo (or Jacopo) Barozzi (or Barocchio) da Vignola
1 October 1507
Vignola, in present-day Italy
Died

7 July 1573 (Aged 65)

Rome, in present-day Italy

Nationality: Italian
Known for Architecture, Garden desigh
Notable work

Villa Farnese, Church of the Ges, Villa Lante

Movement: Mannerism

Major Architectural Works

Vignola's main works include:

Villa Giulia for Pope Julius III, in Rome (1550-1553). Here Vignola was working
with Ammanati, who designed the nymphaeumand other garden features under the
general direction of Vasari, with guidance from the knowledgeable pope and Michelangelo.
A medal of 1553 shows Vignola's main villa substantially as it was completed, save for a
pair of cupolas.

Villa Farnese at Caprarola (15591573);

Villa Lante at Bagnaia (1566 onwards), including the gardens and their water features
and casini;

Chiesa del Ges, Rome, the mother church of the Jesuit order, which would become a
source for Baroque church facades in the 17th century;

Basilica of Santa Maria degli Angeli, Assisi (with Galeazzo Alessi);

Church of Sant'Andrea in Via Flaminia, Rome, the first church to have an oval dome,
which became a signature of the Baroque.

Palazzo dei Banchi, Bologna

Cloister of the Pontifical University of

Saint Thomas Aquinas,Angelicum

The five orders, engraving from Vignola'sRegola delle

cinque ordini d'architettura.

Leon Battista Alberti (February 18, 1404 April 25, 1472) was an Italian author,
artist, architect, poet, priest, linguist, philosopher, and cryptographer, and general Renaissance
humanist polymath. In Italy, this first name is usually spelled "Leone", but Alberti is known as
Leon. Alberti's life was described in Giorgio Vasari's Vite. Alberti is often seen as a model of
the Renaissance "universal man.- He was born in Genoa, because the Albertis had been
expelled from their native city, Florence. When he was a child the family moved to Venice. In
1428 Leon visited Florence at first time.