Michelozzo di Bartolomeo, Interior Court of the Palazzo Medici Riccardi, 1445

Michelozzo di Bartolomeo did an outstanding job with this design for the powerful Medici family. This interior courtyard of the Medici palace takes me back to ancient Rome, and not 15th century Italy. Perhaps, that was the intentions of Bartolomeo; maybe he wanted the Medici family to feel like they were in classical Rome instead of 15th century Italy.