Alternative names Loggia dei Rucellai Country Italy Opened 1466 Architect Leon Battista Alberti | Town or city Florence Completed 1466 Province Province of Florence | |
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Address Piazza de' Rucellai, 50123 Firenze, Italy Similar Torre degli Alberti, Palazzo dell'Arte dei Beccai, Loggia del Pesce, Palazzo Bartolini Salimbeni, San Pancrazio - Florence | ||
The Loggia Rucellai is an Italian Renaissance loggia in Florence, Italy. It stands opposite Palazzo Rucellai in the 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 Alberti, but this attribution is disputed. Originally intended as a place for the Rucellai family to have weddings and other celebrations, it is now glazed and used as a shop.
History
The loggia was completed before 8 June 1466, the date of the wedding-feast of Giovanni's son Bernardo Rucellai and Nannina de' Medici, the daughter of Piero di Cosimo de' Medici and elder sister to Lorenzo il Magnifico. At the feast, 500 guests were seated on a dais which occupied the loggia and the whole of the piazza and the street in front of Palazzo Rucellai.