Architecture Characteristics in the Quattrocento artists and work- Brunelleschi was the outstanding architect of the Guattrocento. He was considered to be the first all-round artist because he was an architect, a painter and a sculptor. Some of his greatest works are the dome of the Cathedral of Florence, the facade of the Pitti Palace and the churches of San Lorenzo and Santo Spirito. These buildings became models of Renaissance art and were imitated in Italy and the rest of Europe. Another important architect was Leon Battista Alberti. He built the Rucellai Palace in Florence and the Basilica of Sant'Andrea in Mantua.
The Cinquecento
In the 16th century, the grat centre of Renaissance architecture was Rome. Here magnificent buildings were built under the patronage of Popes Alexander VI, Julius II, Leo X and Clement VII. One of the greatest buildings of this period in Rome wa