HISTORY OF RENAISSANCE ARCHITECTURE

S. Maria Novella

• West facade

• The courtyard, medieval age.

• Leon Battista Alberti(1404-72) had produced a solution to the problem of a west end with a high nave and lower flanking aisles by scrolls in S. Maria Novella.
• S. Maria Novella is basically gothic style church, and the facade is a remodeled to style like Tuscan Rmanesque by Alberti.
  
  See Romanesque Architecture San Miniato Al Monte

Photo: Shoji Hiramatsu

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