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‘This Renaissance treatment of a palace facade was carried further in the Palazzio Rucellai (1445-70[ce]) at Florence, following the design of the great architect Alberti (Figure 48, right). Classical orders were applied to the palace elevation by Alberti, using pilasters of the different orders imposed upon the three stories, so that there was another relationship established among the differentiated stories, from the short, strong, Tuscan pilaster on the ground floor to the tall, decorative Corinthian at the top.* For Alberti the beauty of architecture consisted of a harmonious relationship among the parts,** with ornament, including the Classical orders, being auxiliary to the proportional relationships.’

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*[See last previous ts journal entry]

**[See [Redbook9:221][19910501:0800c]{Renaissance Architecture [continued (3)]}[1^st May 1991]]

*** – E[ncyclopaedia] B[ritannica] 13: 998

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