Alberti, Palazzo Rucellai발음듣기
Alberti, Palazzo Rucellai
(light jazz piano music) [Voiceover] Just a few years after the Medici Palace was completed, and only a few blocks away, one of the other wealthiest families in Florence, built a palace.발음듣기
[Voiceover] Well there was a whole boom in palace building after the Medici built their palace.발음듣기
[Voiceover] Alberti's "On Architecture" is probably the most important treatise on architecture after the 10 books of architecture by the ancient Roman Vitruvius.발음듣기
And we see that a little bit in the Medici Palace, but we see it really here in the Rucellai Palace by Alberti.발음듣기
[Voiceover] What's fascinating is that Alberti is looking back to Vitruvius's ancient work, seeing this standardized vocabulary, and employing it in a self-conscious way, that is announcing its historicism.발음듣기
[Voiceover] And the classicism is not coming through only in the individual elements, but also in the emphasis on measure and harmony.발음듣기
[Voiceover] At this particular moment in Florentine history, it was important that Rucellai express his loyalty to the Medici family.발음듣기
Alberti was clearly referencing the Medici Palace, and you can see that in the organization of the facade, into three primary stories.발음듣기
But there are also really important differences, and you can see that especially in the masonry.발음듣기
For example, this building is much more delicate, gone is that heavy, dark, rusticated masonry that we saw in the earlier building.발음듣기
[Voiceover] Right, that gave the impression of the Medici Palace as being almost like a fortress, and recalling the Palazzo Vecchio.발음듣기
[Voiceover] This building feels much more intellectual in its geometry, its lightness, it's sense of the cerebral.발음듣기
But in-between the stories, instead of just a string course, we have more classical entablature, which gives us a sense of horizontality and which is filled with decorative patterns, between the ground floor and the first floor.발음듣기
We see a Medici device, of a diamond ring with three feathers coming out of it, and between the second floor and the third floor, we see a device of the Rucellai family, of a sail that appears to be blowing in the wind.발음듣기
[Voiceover] If you start at the bottom, just like the Medici Palace, there are benches on the ground floor, which is an invitation for the citizens of the city to come and rest.발음듣기
[Voiceover] And as you move up the facade, there are three sets of pilasters. Each with different capitals.발음듣기
[Voiceover] And we see that differentiation of orders, also if we go to the Colosseum in Rome, where at the bottom we have the Tuscan.발음듣기
[Voiceover] But the building's emphasis is not vertical, even though you've got the pilasters moving from top to bottom.발음듣기
Because those pilasters are interrupted by these very elaborate entablatures that really emphasize the horizontality, the grounded quality of the building.발음듣기
And you can see it's unfinished on the right side, and so there would have been a third entrance.발음듣기
The structure was remodeled on the inside, joining a number of pre-existing independent structures.발음듣기
[Voiceover] Now Alberti may also have designed the Loggia, that is caddy-cornered to the Palazzo, the palace.발음듣기
This is an open space, with round arches, beautiful columns with Corinthian capitals and pilasters on the interior wall, also very classicizing.발음듣기
And this loggia may in fact have been built to commemorate a wedding between a member of the Medici family and the Rucellai family.발음듣기
[Voiceover] Actually it's important to note, that it's no longer an open loggia, it's now got a glass covering, and it's actually a shoe store.발음듣기
But originally it would have been an open space that would have protected people as they walked through.발음듣기
[Voiceover] Well we can see the building of the Palazzo, of the loggia, of this piazza in front, as part of the beautification of the city. that happened in the 15th century.발음듣기
That civic pride that led the people of Florence to be interested in beautifying their city, with great works of sculpture and architecture.발음듣기
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