Photo of the Day: Santa Maria Novella (Leon Battista
Alberti, 1456-70)
Speaking of Alberti (in the previous post), here is a façade
that is definitely designed by him. Leon Battista Alberti was a humanist and a philosopher, who saw architecture as a means to address societal order. For Alberti, a renaissance architect should be a universalist, an intellectual, and a man of genius. (no pressure there!)
Alberti designed this façade at Santa Maria Novella onto an
existing medieval church. His design is
based on whole number proportional relationships driven by the circle and the
square, the idealized mathematical forms of the renaissance.
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