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Leon Battista Alberti (Italian: [leˈom batˈtista alˈbɛrti]; 14 February 1404 – 25 April 1472) was an Italian Renaissance humanist author, artist, architect, poet, priest, linguist, philosopher, and cryptographer; he epitomised the nature of those identified now as polymaths.
Birth name: Leon Battista degli Alberti; Leon Batista Alberti; L. B. Alberti; Leo Baptista Alberti; Lepidus; Leo-Battista degli Alberti; Leone Battista Alberti Description Italian philosopher, linguist, cryptographer, poet, architect and architectural theoretician
Birth name: Leon Battista degli Alberti; Leon Batista Alberti; L. B. Alberti; Leo Baptista Alberti; Lepidus; Leo-Battista degli Alberti; Leone Battista Alberti Description Italian philosopher, linguist, cryptographer, poet, architect and architectural theoretician
Figure from the 1804 edition of Della picture showing the vanishing point Rendition of Alberti's description of how a circle projected as an ellipse Figure showing pillars in perspective on a grid. De pictura (English: "On Painting") is a treatise or commentarii written by the Italian humanist and artist Leon Battista Alberti. The first version ...
Leon Battista Alberti (1404–1472), artist, architect and theoretician. He wrote De Re Aedificatoria in 1452; was the first architectural treatise of the Renaissance. Galeazzo Alessi (1512–1572), architect.
The Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects (Italian: Le vite de' più eccellenti pittori, scultori, e architettori), often simply known as The Lives (Italian: Le Vite), is a series of artist biographies written by 16th-century Italian painter and architect Giorgio Vasari, which is considered "perhaps the most famous, and even today the most-read work of the older ...
The first Renaissance endeavor in Urbino was the portal of the church of San Domenico, created in 1449 in a manner similar to a Roman triumphal arch by Maso di Bartolomeo, [8] called to the city through the intercession of Fra Carnevale, an Urbino painter sent perhaps by Federico himself to the workshop of Filippo Lippi, one of the three most famous Florentine painters of the time (along with ...
Alberti aspired to renew and rival the Roman structures of antiquity, though here his inspiration was drawn from the triumphal arch, [3] in which his main inspiration was the tripartite Arch of Constantine in Rome. But as Rudolf Wittkower remarked, [4] he drew details (the base, the half-columns, the discs, moldings) from the Arch of Augustus.