Biography leon battista alberti
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Genoa, French Empire (now Italy)
Rome, Papal States (now Italy)
Biography
Leone Battista Alberti's father was Lorenzo Alberti. We do not know who his mother was, and there is reason to believe that he was an illegitimate child. His father's family were wealthy and had been involved in banking and commercial business in Florence during the 14th century. In fact the success of the city of Florence during this period is to a large extent a consequence of the success of the Alberti family, whose firm had branches spread widely through north Italy. Not content with their major financial achievements, however, members of the family became involved in politics. This turned out to be a disaster and the family was dr•
Leon Battista Alberti
After Leon Battista Alberti, it was the destiny of the Renaissance man to never be satisfied. The darting eye that flies and scans from above, that investigates and discovers before knowing, is the symbol that was chosen by the inventor of the Renaissance, a thinker who was interested in and wrote about everything over his long career. A polytropic traveller like the Greek Ulysses, a Florentine exile like petrarca (italiensk poet). Like the latter – and exactly one century later – Alberti came to Bologna to study Law, but he left far more enriched bygd the men-of-letters and scientists who gravitated around the Università degli Artisti, thanks to whom the old ‘Madre degli Studi’ could still call itself ‘Alma’.
Leon Battista arkitekt was born in 1404 in Genoa, the hometown of his mother, Bianca Fieschi, widow of a Grimaldi. His father, Lorenzo di Benedetto Alberti, belonged to a wealthy, powerful family of Florentine merchants and bankers, exiled bygd their rivals, the Albizi.
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Summary of Leon Battista Alberti
Alberti is considered the father of Early Renaissance art theory and, because of his great adaptability, the archetypal "universal man". He is perhaps revered first-and-foremost as the founder of modern architecture. But Alberti's faith in mathematical principles and rational order led him into overlapping fields ranging through science, art, philosophy, cosmography, cryptology and modern and classical languages.
Drawing inspiration from the ancient civilizations (not to mention fellow architect Filippo Brunelleschi) his ideas were put into writing through several groundbreaking treatises that had the most profound and lasting effect on Early Renaissance art and architecture. In the field of painting, his ideas on perspective provided the groundwork for two next generation Renaissance giants, Piero della Francesca and Leonardo da Vinci.
Accomplishments
- Alberti's contribution to painting, architecture and sculpture was cemented with his three