Basically, he was your prototypical Renaissance man. Alberti is perhaps one of the most important and influential creative figures to come out of the Renaissance, although he is one of the less ...

Like a signal from the past, Leon Battista Alberti’s De re aedificatoria—On the Art of Building, completed in 1452—transmitted urban-planning concepts of classical antiquity to the ...

Leon Battista Alberti is one of those great men whose greatness one has to struggle to appreciate. In the histories he is second only to Filippo Brunelleschi as a progenitor of Renaissance ...

By modern standards, Alberti is a misogynist. Alexa play “Another White Boy With A Podcast.” But social bonding and gender roles were vastly different in the Renaissance, formally coded by men ...

Alberti not only expands upon Vitruvius but also invents new concepts and creates brand-new work for a new era: the Italian Renaissance. Like his Roman predecessor, and even moreso, Alberti’s writing ...

The concept of a Renaissance man developed in the Renaissance Period in the 15th and 16th centuries. It was defined by famous Italian architect and artist, Leon Battisa Alberti, as “a man that can do ...

Leon Battista Alberti: Master Builder of the Italian Renaissance. By Anthony Grafton (2000) 2. The Renaissance polymath Leon Battista Alberti asked his contemporaries to consider that painting is ...