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 architects who are interested in Greek architecture, I have a great interest in the future; in reviving the styles and beauty of ancient Roman architecture. I even wrote a book called "On the Art of Building in Ten Books," in which I cover a wide range of subjects, from history, to town planning and engineering, to the philosophy of beauty. Many people have told me that I have been such an influential architect and that my buildings and philosophy will have a great impact in the architecture of the future, but never did I believe it was going to be that way. "What a better way to find out the truth, but by experiencing it by myself? " I thought, so I went to my close friend Leonardo Da Vinci, who invented a time machine to take me to the future, and this is where my adventure began.
The time machine took me to one of the most amazing places I could imagine; Paris. I was 500 years into the future, and everything was different than like at home, in Florence. The first thing I noticed is how nicely this city was constructed with streets and boulevards in an orderly manner, like I mentioned in my book the way a city should look like. After walking for a while I found a long, narrow street called "Avenue de l'Opera ", and far away at the end, rested a building like if it were calling to be seen. I walked a few miles up, and there it was, one of the most beautiful buildings I have ever seen in my life. Beauty can be interpreted in many ways, but in my opinion, beauty is "the adjustment of all parts proportionately so that one cannot add or subtract or change without impairing the harmony of the whole.
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. ...
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. ...
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...
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. ...
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...
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...
The formal and intellectual works of Leon Battista Alberti, influenced the next generation of Florentine architects. Leons use of monumental mass, emphasis on geometric relationships, and classical style are shown in Sant'Andrea, Mantua (Spivey 44, 45). ...
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...
