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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.
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 ...
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.
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
Leon Battista Alberti This page was last edited on 9 September 2023, at 18:20 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution ...
According to a 15th century Italian manuscript biography, later published by 18th century historian Ludovico Antonio Muratori (1672 – 1750), the Italian humanist author, artist Leon Battista Alberti (1404 – 1472) created wonderful painted pictures exhibited inside a box with a small aperture. He had two kinds: night scenes with the moon and ...
Facade of San Sebastiano church. San Sebastiano is an Early Renaissance church in Mantua, northern Italy.Begun in 1460 according to the designs of Leon Battista Alberti, it was left partially completed in the mid-1470s, by which time construction had slowed and was no longer being directed by Alberti.
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).