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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.
De re aedificatoria (On the Art of Building) is a classic architectural treatise written by Leon Battista Alberti between 1443 and 1452. [1] Although largely dependent on Vitruvius 's De architectura , it was the first theoretical book on the subject written in the Italian Renaissance , and in 1485 it became the first printed book on architecture.
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 ...
“Love doesn’t just sit there, like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; remade all the time, made new.” ― Ursula K. Le Guin “A good marriage is one which allows for change and growth ...
That's not all! This list is full of wedding quotes and sayings from our favorite romance movies, too. So, take a look through these marriage quotes to celebrate your never-ending love. Mignon ...
Joan Kelly, also known as Joan Kelly-Gadol (March 29, 1928 – August 15, 1982) was a prominent American historian who wrote on the Italian Renaissance, specifically on Leon Battista Alberti. Among her best known works is the essay "Did Women Have a Renaissance?" which was first published in 1976.
I Tatti volumes in a London bookshop. The I Tatti Everyday Renaissance Library is a book series published by the Tatti University Press, which aims to present important works of Italian Renaissance Latin Literature to a modern audience by printing the original Latin text on each left-hand leaf (verso), and an English translation on the facing page (recto).
While popular again nowadays, the original order of words was modified in 15th century by Leon Battista Alberti who moved the commodity to the first place in the triad. This order was repeated in the 16th century by Andrea Palladio in his " I quattro libri dell'architettura " ( Italian : l’utile o comodità, la perpetuità, e la bellezz ...