Alberti biography
Alberti biography
Leon Battista Alberti Paintings, Bio, Ideas.
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