Filippo Brunelleschi

Brunelleschi died just prior to laying the foundations of the buildings. Only 8 years after his death was vodruzhena the first column, details, profiles, decorations served subordinate builders, and their dry form only in very general terms, consistent with the idea of the master.

In 1440, at the zenith of fame, Brunelleschi had received an order for the construction of the Palazzo Pitti. Luca Pitti, rich merchant, seeking a politically and economically to destroy the Medici, and in fact, already seemed to be winning, lose in the end, all because of the importance of diplomatic dexterity Medici and his spineless. His palace was a monument to his victory over the Medici and Florence, and was to be so large that it could put the yard of the largest palace in Florence. The yard was left open at the rear, and the facade was only a century later (1558, architect B. Ammanati), and although the Palace in general, and was eventually completed, but very different than the idea of Pitt, in addition frontage was significantly extended in the next century, so the initial impression changed dramatically.

Only 7 medium passage relate to the original building. It was the middle of the structure without underlined, highlighted, without angles, the silhouette of which had no ledges - simply prismatic block. Above the lower floor, two identical upper floors, everything - is enormous (each of height 12 m). Finishing the entire facade - a blatant Roustam, some square stones - the overwhelming gravity. The stronger the sense voltage, the greater the sense also that the master had dominion over the material. In recent years the master falls construction Palazzo Patstsi-Kvaratezi (completed after the death of the master) in Florence. The ground floor is processed Roustam, upstairs plastered.