Leon Battista Alberti

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Leon Battista Alberti


Born
in Genoa, Italy
December 22, 1403

Died
February 26, 1472

Genre

Influences


Influential treatises on painting, architecture, and sculpture of Italian writer Leon Battista Alberti introduced classical ideas into Renaissance art.

This author, poet, priest, linguist, philosopher, cryptographer, and general humanist polymath, often characterized exclusively, as James Beck observed, "to single out one of Leon Battista's 'fields' over others as somehow functionally independent and self-sufficient is of no help at all to any effort to characterize Alberti's extensive explorations in the fine arts." Giorgio Vasari described life of Alberti in Vite de' più eccellenti pittori, scultori, e architettori or "Lives of the most excellent painters, sculptors and architects."

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“No art, however minor, demands less than total dedication if you want to excel in it.”
Leon Battista Alberti

“A man can do all things if he but wills them.”
Leon Battista Alberti

“...nothing other than the harmony of the individual limbs and parts, so that nothing can be added or taken away without damaging it.”
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