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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 merchants in Renaissance Florence, in Tuscany, Italy.
Giovanni Rucellai ( Florencia; 20 de octubre de 1475 - Roma; 3 de abril de 1525); intelectual, poeta, humanista y dramaturgo italiano del Renacimiento. También destacó dentro de la política y el comercio, siendo cabeza de la prestigiosa familia Rucellai. Primo del papa León X, murió en Roma.
El palacio Rucellai es una obra arquitectónica florentina del siglo XV que se ubica en el 18 de la via della Vigna Nuova. Fue construida por León Battista Alberti entre el año 1446 y 1455, el modelo de palacio renacentista italiano: pisos horizontales en los que el resalte de los sillares decrece hacia arriba; ventanas enmarcadas ...
Giovanni di Paolo Rucellai (nacido el 26 de diciembre de 1403 y murió en 1481) es un humanista, patrón de una rica familia de comerciantes de lana en Florencia.
In Florence: The early period. …chiefly Cosimo de’ Medici and Giovanni Rucellai in the 15th century, were able to shape civic politics and culture through a system of oligarchy and patronage. They underwrote the accomplishments that are now singled out with the term “Renaissance,” and their palaces came to dominate the city as fully as ...
A point of departure for the emergence of this celebratory and historicizing genre of portraiture is the famous Giovanni di Paolo Rucellai (1403-1481) which remains to this day in the collection of the family (fig. 1). The portrait - an elaborate pictorial fiction - is a work whose historical.
The main difference between the Palazzo Rucellai and other palazzi was Alberti’s reliance on ancient Rome. This may have reflected Giovanni Rucellai’s pretensions for his family. Rome was the seat of the papacy, and though Rucellai was not a cleric, he claimed to have descended from a Templar.
