Italian Renaissance humanist, architect and author, 1404 to 1472, whose De re aedificatoria, presented to Pope Nicholas V in 1452, was the first work of architectural theory written since antiquity, self-consciously modelled on Vitruvius's De architectura. Alberti grounded architectural beauty in mathematical proportion and built the Palazzo Rucellai and Santa Maria Novella facades in Florence and Sant'Andrea in Mantua, establishing architecture as a liberal art rather than a craft. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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Defining ContributionReviving classical architectural theory grounded in mathematical proportion, in De re aedificatoria, the first treatise of its kind since Vitruvius. 1 Connections
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Leon Battista Alberti wrote De re aedificatoria, presenting it to Pope Nicholas V in 1452.
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Author of De re aedificatoria and designer of the Palazzo Rucellai facade, the Santa Maria Novella facade and Sant Andrea in Mantua, a founding theorist and practitioner of Renaissance architecture.
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Alberti's De re aedificatoria was modeled on and inspired by Vitruvius's De architectura.
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Leon Battista Alberti (Italian: [leombatˈtista alˈbɛɾti]; 14 February 1404 – 25 April 1472) was an Italian Renaissance humanist author, artist, architect, poet, priest, linguist, philosopher, and cryptographer; he epitomised the nature of those identified now as polymaths.
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Leon Battista Alberti (Italian: [leombatˈtista alˈbɛɾti]; 14 February 1404 - 25 April 1472) was an Italian Renaissance humanist author, artist, architect, poet, priest, linguist, philosopher, and cryptographer; he epitomised the nature of those identified now as polymaths.
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- Associated With: Publication of De re aedificatoria, De re aedificatoria
- Influenced By: Vitruvius
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