Alberti – The Virtues of a Renaissance Man
Throughout his life, Leon Battista Alberti was concerned with becoming his optimal self. Known to us primarily as the fifteenth century humanist philosopher, Alberti’s De iciarchia (‘On the Man of Excellence and Ruler of His Family’) became a central text in defining the bourgeoning worldview of the courtier polymath. His famous declaration ‘a man
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The Renaissance demanded a new kind of person, one well suited to the era’s invigorating atmosphere. This new ideal emerged in Italy from the writings of Leon Battista Alberti (1404–1472), an architect and art theorist who stated boldly that “a man can do all things if he will.” Alberti dubbed this versatile, highly capable type of human Uoma Unive
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Brunelleschi’s successor as a theorist of linear perspective was another of the towering Renaissance polymaths, Leon Battista Alberti (1404 –1472), who refined many of Brunelleschi’s experiments and extended his discoveries about perspective. An artist, architect, engineer, and writer, Alberti was like Leonardo in many ways: both were illegitimate
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