LEON BATTISTA ALBERTI DS

LEON BATTISTA ALBERTI DS

Product Description Leon Battista Alberti is one of the major artistic figures of the Renaissance. He developed the theory according to which beauty is harmony, expressible mathematically, between the whole and its parts. After studying in Padua and Bologna, he trained in Rome. Having moved to Florence in 1434, he created important architectural works: the Palazzo Rucellai, the Tempietto del San Sepolcro in the Rucellai Chapel in San Pancrazio and the facade of Santa Maria Novella. But most of his activity in the architectural field took place elsewhere: in Rome as an archaeologist-restorer of Santo Stefano Rotondo and Santa Maria Maggiore, in Rimini as the author of the Tempio Malatestiano, a true manifesto of Renaissance classicism and finally in Mantua where he left the sum of his architectural thought in the Churches of San Sebastiano and SantAndrea. In the meantime he wrote De Pictura (dedicated to Brunelleschi), De Re Aedificatoria and De Statua. If Brunelleschi builds, Alberti theorizes: he gives scientific foundation to the work of art, putting painting, sculpture, architecture on the same level as literature and philosophy. The craftsman thus becomes an intellectual.More information Synopsis Leon Battista Alberti is one of the major artistic figures of the Renaissance. He developed the theory according to which beauty is harmony, expressible mathematically, between the whole and its parts. After studying in Padua and Bologna, he trained in Rome. Having moved to Florence in 1434, he created important architectural works: the Palazzo Rucellai, the Tempietto del San Sepolcro in the Rucellai Chapel in San Pancrazio and the facade of Santa Maria Novella. But most of his activity in the architectural field took place elsewhere: in Rome as an archaeologist-restorer of Santo Stefano Rotondo and Santa Maria Maggiore, in Rimini as the author of the Tempio Malatestiano, a true manifesto of Renaissance classicism and finally in Mantua where he left the sum of his architectural thought in the Churches of San Sebastiano and Sant'Andrea. In the meantime, he wrote De Pictura (dedicated to Brunelleschi), De Re Aedificatoria and De Statua. If Brunelleschi builds, Alberti theorizes: he gives scientific foundation to the work of art, putting painting, sculpture, architecture on the same level as literature and philosophy. The craftsman thus becomes an intellectual.