HISTORY OF RENAISSANCE ARCHITECTURE

Sant' ANDREA

• Facade.

• Leon Battista Alberti(1404-72) turned his attention to the traditional Latin cross plan and applied a combination of a temple front and a triumphal arch to the facade.
• Alberti not only produced a new facad design but abandoned the nave-and-aisles type of basilica church which Brunelleschi had used, turning instead to a Latin cross form with a barrel-vaulted nave and a series of alternating chapels and supports on either side.

• Loggia.
  
  
  

• Other works of Alberti are San Francesco in Rimini (Tempio Malatestiano)(1450-55), S. Maria Novella(1456-70; Firenze), Palazzo Rucellai(1446?-51; Firenze), San Sebastiano(1460; Mantua).

• His books are Della pittura; 1435, De re aedificatoria; 1452.

Photo: Shoji Hiramatsu

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