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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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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