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Sant andrea alberti facade and floor plan.
Alberti sant andrea in mantua.
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The facade was traditionally a canvas for architectures to showcase their designs and the facade of sant andrea is considered one of alberti s masterpieces.
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The site was particularly important to ludovico gonzaga 1412 1478 marquis of the city because it stood close by the gonzaga palace and contained a relic the supposed blood of christ.
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Façade 1472 92 photo piazza andrea mantegna mantua.
Leon battista alberti basilica of sant andrea 1472 90 mantua italy photo.
Santa maria novella is a church in florence italy situated opposite and lending its name to the city s main railway station chronologically it is the first great basilica in florence and is the city s principal dominican church.
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In 1470 when ludovico was considering a plan by another architect alberti who had designed san sebastiano for him ten years.
Lorenzo with its own system of coffered barrel vaults and a design combining the image of a triumphal arch with that of a classical temple front.
By nc sa 3 0 when pilgrims pass under the arch and into the nave the long interior hall after their eyes adjusted to the purposefully dim mystical light they would look up and see a second much more massive barrel vault the largest.
Alberti therefore disassociated the fa ade from the body of the church by turning it into an independent narthex one bay deep which michelangelo would do in 1516 in his model for the fa ade of s.
Ludovico gonzaga the marquis of mantua wished to build a larger church to replace sant andrea a small pilgrimage church that held the much visited relic of the sacred blood.
The church the adjoining cloister and chapter house contain a multiplicity of art treasures and funerary monuments.
Alberti façade of santa maria novella florence.
Commissioned by ludovico iii gonzaga the church was begun in 1472 according to designs by leon battista alberti on a site occupied by a benedictine monastery of which the bell tower 1414 remains.
Sant andrea mantua designed 1470 begun 1472 architect.