Perspective goes back long before the famous artists Filippo Brunelleschi or Leon Battista Alberti. ... Alberti, the first theoretician to describe the process of perspective, called Brunelleschi's work "door level", but today it is known as "picture plane", or the "window". The architect Leon Battista Alberti, in 1435, came up with the theoretical and practical skill, which defined the geometrical rules of perspective. ... They pretty much supplemented those things that Alberti failed to recognize or explain. ...

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One person who lived during the Renaissance was Leon Battista Alberti. ... Leon Alberti was a very individualistic person. ... Leon Alberti has a lot of individualistic qualities. ... Leon Alberti was a very educated person. ... Still, Leon Battista Alberti is a good example of a Renaissance Man. ...

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The world of architecture felt the impact of the decline in a great way, and Fillipo Brunelleschi, Leon Battista Alberti, and Andrea Palladio made renowned buildings that characterize and express the development of Renaissance architecture. ... Fillipo Brunelleschi's successor as the leader in Renaissance architecture was Leon Battista Alberti, a scholar, painter, sculptor, mathematician, poet, and architect. Some buildings by Alberti important to the development of Renaissance architecture include the Rucellai Palace, S. ... Francesco in Rimini, Alberti is able to create the im...

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Leon Battista Alberti published a treatise that established, for the first time , guidelines for drawing three dimensional scenes on a two dimensional panel or wall, based on Brunelleschi's findings. ... Alberti's book was fundamental in spreading an awareness of perspective and the new possibilities it enabled. ... Examples of this are the frescoes, 'the worship of the Holy Name of Jesus' by Giovanni Battista Gaulli and, Corregio's 'The assumption of the Virgin', Parma cathedral. ...

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As new styles of linear and aerial perspective and pyramid structures came into use by Francesca and Alberti, paintings were able to carry better-recognized religious ideas because the paintings became more transparent and more vivid in detail. ... Other important figures in the Italian Renaissance that demonstrated the movement's ideas through their ingenious paintings and architectural methods were Pier Della Francesca and Leon Battista Alberti. ... Alberti, on the other hand, as an architect developed the pediment which became popular throughout the entire Renaissance. ... Then other a...

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My name is Leon Battista Alberti, and I was born in 1404, in early Renaissance, Genoa. Even though I like being an architect very much, I've always been interested in other subjects; math, music, painting, philosophy and sculpture. Many people would consider me to be a Humanist. Unlike many other ar...

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Leon Battista Alberti, a "universal man," who wrote a book that many artists follow, highly praised Brunelleschi's work of architecture not just for his design, but also for his knowledge and manipulation of Nature's numbers and proportions. Alberti believed that "architecture was the highest art, the architect a second Creator, the whole enterprise a religious calling," (Turner, 72). Alberti also believed in an idea in which there are parts to a whole which are different in form, but are brought together to mold into a coherent and harmonious whole (Turner,73), much like an organism...

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During the era known by this name, Europe emerged from the economic stagnation of the Middle Ages and experienced a time of financial growth. Also, and most importantly, the Renaissance was an age in which artistic, social, scientific, and political thought turned in new directions. This late med...

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Italian art history begins in Rome during the first through the fourth centuries. The birth of Christian religious architecture based on Roman prototypes, was developed. Resident in Sicily were the Arabs who Paladino 2 introduced styles of oriental magnificence such as Palarmo's Palantine Chapel. A...

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Artists like Giotto di Bondone , Filippo Brunelleschi, Leon Battista Alberti, Piero della Francesca and Masaccio, who was considered the master of it, were just some of the artists who used perspective. ...

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Its procedures were recorded and clarified in treatises written in the vernacular by Leon Battista Alberti (1404 "1472), who made the standards of point of view attracting and painting open to a wide mixed bag of specialists who needed to realize this popular methodology. ...

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