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A fresh English translation of five Alberti works that illuminate new aspects of the literary aims and development of the first “Renaissance man.”Leon Battista Alberti (1404–1472) was one of the most famous figures of the Italian Renaissance. His extraordinary range of abilities as a writer, architect, art theorist, and even athlete earned him the controversial title of the first “Renaissance man.”The works collected in Biographical and Autobiographical Writings reflect Alberti’s ...
Leon Battista Alberti. (plné texty diel autora) Commons. Leon Battista Alberti. Biografický portál. Leon Battista Alberti (* 18. február 1404 – † 25. apríl 1472) bol taliansky spisovateľ, umelec, básnik, kňaz, jazykovedec, šifrant a vedúci renesančný humanistický polyhistor. Jeho život opísal vo svojom diele Giorgio Vasari.
Leon Battista Alberti, O slikarstvu = De pictura ; O kiparstvu = De statua, ur. Marko Špikić, Institut za povijest umjetnosti, Zagreb, 2008. ISBN 978-953-6106-76-9; Marko Špikić, Perception of Antiquities by Leon Battista Alberti (PDF), Prostor: znanstveni časopis za arhitekturu i urbanizam, Vol.10 No.2(24) Studeni 2003 (sh) (en)
While many Renaissance scholars and artists, such as Leon Battista Alberti and Michelangelo Buonarroti, studied Vitruvius, Leonardo was an eager yet critical reader. Book 10 of De architectura describes the Roman hodometer, which was used to measure distance on land or water through drums on a rotating wheel, and includes an illustration of this Roman device with enumerated captions detailing its mechanical parts.
Leon Battista Alberti (14. února 1404 Janov – 25. dubna 1472 Řím) byl italský humanista, architekt, teoretik umění, spisovatel a matematik, ale také všestranný sportovec, jedna z velkých postav italské renesance, ztělesňující humanistický ideal všestranně rozvinutého člověka.
Oct 28, 2022 · Abstract. Writer, mathematician, and architect, Leon Battista Alberti was one of the most versatile humanists of his generation, able to innovate literary genres and to cross disciplines. Although he was not a systematic philosopher, Alberti has explored several philosophical issues in his work, making use of a remarkable and up-to-date library.
Leon Battista Alberti was an Italian Renaissance humanist author, artist, architect, poet, priest, linguist, philosopher, and cryptographer; he epitomised the nature of those identified now as polymaths. Although he often is characterized exclusively as an architect, as James Beck has observed, "to single out one of Leon Battista's 'fields ...
