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    Giovanni Rucellai (26 December 1403 – 1481), known by his name with the patronymic Giovanni di Paolo Rucellai, was a member of a wealthy family of wool...
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    Palace is believed by most scholars to have been designed for Giovanni di Paolo Rucellai by Leon Battista Alberti between 1446 and 1451 and executed, at...
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    Giovanni Rucellai (20 October 1475 – 3 April 1525), known as Giovanni di Bernardo Rucellai (with a patronymic), was an Italian humanist, poet, dramatist...
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    the church of San Pancrazio, Florence. It was commissioned by Giovanni di Paolo Rucellai and built to designs by Leon Battista Alberti in imitation or...
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  • Giovanni Rucellai may refer to: Giovanni di Paolo Rucellai (1403–1481), Renaissance writer and patron of the arts Giovanni di Bernardo Rucellai (1475–1525)...
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    1420. On a commission from the wealthy Florentine wool merchant Giovanni di Paolo Rucellai, Leon Battista Alberti designed the upper part of the inlaid green...
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    and social elite. He was the son of Giovanni di Paolo Rucellai (1403–1481) and father of Giovanni di Bernardo Rucellai (1475–1525). He was married to Nannina...
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  • painter Giovanni di Paolo Rucellai (1403–1481), Italian merchant DiPaolo, another Italian surname This page lists people with the surname Di Paolo. If an...
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    Via della Vigna Nuova, and faces onto Piazza de' Rucellai. It was built by Giovanni di Paolo Rucellai in the 1460s; it may have been designed by Leon Battista...
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    the Rucellai, a wealthy clan of bankers and wool-merchants. The family's head, Giovanni di Paolo Rucellai, commissioned the famous Palazzo Rucellai, a...
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    from the 14th century. The cloister houses a fresco by Neri di Bicci. Giovanni di Paolo Rucellai commissioned Leon Battista Alberti to build him a tomb in...
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  • subject of scholarly studies, for instance Giovanni Boccaccio's three zibaldoni. and Giovanni di Paolo Rucellai’s Zibaldone quaresimale Similarly, the Rustici...
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    was built by Lorenzo de' Medici after buying a rustic farm from Giovanni di Paolo Rucellai, who in turn had bought what was then a simple fortress from Palla...
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    Poggio a Caiano called the Ambra, and land and a mill owned by Giovanni di Paolo Rucellai, were bought by Lorenzo de' Medici. Initially, only agricultural...
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    first major architectural commission was in 1446 for the façade of the Rucellai Palace in Florence. This was followed in 1450 by a commission from Sigismondo...
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    of Orazio Rucellai (1604–1673) and the tomb of Giovanni della Casa, author of Il Galateo. The right wall houses the tomb of Annibale Rucellai (died in...
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    Sienese School, by Sano di Pietro, Matteo di Giovanni, Vecchietta and Giovanni di Paolo. The Baptistry, dedicated as usual to San Giovanni, is located next to...
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    Battista Alberti worked mainly as an architect for the wealthy merchant Giovanni Rucellai. Unlike Brunelleschi, Alberti approached architecture not as a practitioner...
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  • related to House of Medici. History of Florence Two more sons: Arrigo (?-?), Giovanni (?-?) Three more sons: Talento (?-?), he had a son, Mario died in 1369...
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    undamaged and the images were removed. Cimabue: Santa Trinita Maestà Duccio: Rucellai Madonna Giotto: Ognissanti Madonna, Badia Polyptych Simone Martini: Annunciation...
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    reading room. There are several other notable places, including the Palazzo Rucellai, designed by Leon Battista Alberti between 1446 and 1451 and executed,...
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    Albizzi family were the Medici, first under Giovanni di Bicci de' Medici, later under his son Cosimo di Giovanni de' Medici and great-grandson, Lorenzo de'...
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    The Basilica di Santo Spirito ("Basilica of the Holy Spirit") is a church in Florence, Italy. Usually referred to simply as Santo Spirito, it is located...
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  • Pope Alexander VI (approximate date; d. 1507) October 20 – Giovanni di Bernardo Rucellai, Italian Renaissance man of letters (d. 1525) November 2 – Anne...
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    artisans of the Chianti region, noble families like the Spini, Soderini and Rucellai, small Florentine shopkeepers, abbots of the Vallombrosans of Santa Trìnita...
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    religious works Paolo Veronese (Italian, c. 1528–1588), High Renaissance-style, one of Venice's leading colourists Giovanni di Paolo (Italian, 1403–1482)...
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    precipitous mountains around Lago di Garda at the foothills of the Alps in Northern Italy. Giotto, Joachim's Dream. Paolo Uccello, Franciscan Life. Carpaccio...
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  • Ariosto (1474 – 1533) wrote the epic poem Orlando furioso (1516). Giovanni di Bernardo Rucellai (1474 – 1525) wrote Le Api, a pioneering work in versi sciolti...
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    Florentine in conception, comparable to Leone Battista Alberti's Palazzo Rucellai. The overall pattern of drafted masonry, cut with smooth surfaces and grooves...
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    John Florio (redirect from Giovanni Florio)
    Giovanni Florio (1552 or 1553 – 1625), known as John Florio, was an English linguist, poet, writer, translator, lexicographer, and royal language tutor...
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