andrea Mantegna - de Young Museum
... Mantegna’s vocabulary of ancient motifs embodies the theories of the Italian architect and humanist Leon Battista Alberti (1404– 1472), whose treatises are the seminal theoretical writings on art and architecture of the fifteenth century. Alberti’s concept of disegno, which embraced rational composi ...
... Mantegna’s vocabulary of ancient motifs embodies the theories of the Italian architect and humanist Leon Battista Alberti (1404– 1472), whose treatises are the seminal theoretical writings on art and architecture of the fifteenth century. Alberti’s concept of disegno, which embraced rational composi ...
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... • It symbolically creates a Dome of Heaven over the crossing, where the main altar is located. • The great ribbed dome, so fundamental to this abstract concept, could not be built when it was planned in 1365. The Italians were certain that somebody would eventually figure out how to build the dome ...
... • It symbolically creates a Dome of Heaven over the crossing, where the main altar is located. • The great ribbed dome, so fundamental to this abstract concept, could not be built when it was planned in 1365. The Italians were certain that somebody would eventually figure out how to build the dome ...
Leon Battista Alberti
Leon Battista Alberti (February 14, 1404 – April 25, 1472) was an Italian humanist author, artist, architect, poet, priest, linguist, philosopher and cryptographer; he epitomised the Renaissance Man. Although he is often characterized as an ""architect"" exclusively, as James Beck has 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."" Alberti's life was described in Giorgio Vasari's Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects.