"This building was just perfect: its ornamentation, location, order, arrangement, style, colors; it had everything. It clearly pursued venustas just the way I would have done so; I immediately felt connected to it. .
What was this building's purpose? Who was its architect that thought the same way I did? So many questions I had and so much to learn that took me to ask everyone around in pursuit of information. At first I thought it was a church, since it was the most beautiful building around, like if it where the chief ornament of the city, and because it even had an avenue which went directly towards it. Also, I noted that this building stood all by itself on an island, in a podium elevated off the ground, like I would consider a church during my times should be. Its facade seemed to be completely symmetrical and in complete, proportional harmony. But there was something that I didn't like about this church; it wasn't round like the most perfect things in nature are. After asking all the people around me, I was told that it wasn't a church.
Apparently, the architect that designed this building was a French architect named Charles Garnier in 1861. According to the people there, this was where Operas and many other theatrical events were presented, and it was one of the most important buildings of that time. At first, I didn't agree as much that this "public secular building " was treated as if it were a church, nor that it was more important than one since that wouldn't follow my ladders of beauty, but this building was too beautiful to criticize and I hadn't seen it all yet. To further examine this amazing piece of architecture, I had to cross the street and almost got hit by these crazy looking motorized carts, but it was worth the risk for what I was about to discover.
The Front facade simply looked amazing, there was no way I could explain it with just words. It showed me how architecture has evolved through time, and not only evolved but also improved in so many ways! The first thing that I noticed is how rich of ornament this building was.
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...
