Discover art theorist, author, humanist Leon Battista Alberti

Qualifications: art theorist, author, humanist, architect, mathematician, painter
bestudeerde theoretische vraagstukken van de verschillende kunstdisciplines en hun verbinding met de wetenschap.

Nationality/school: Italian

Born: Genua 1404-02-14

Deceased: Rome 1472-04

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1 hit in RKDimages as artist
10 hits in RKDlibrary as subject
3 hits in RKDlibrary as author

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Biographical information

Period of activity: 1419 - 1472
ca. 1419-1472

Active in

Padua 1416 - 1428
Rome 1432 - 1434
Florence 1434 - 1437
Ferrara 1438 - 1439
Florence 1439 - 1443
Rome 1443 - 1472

born in

active in

died in

Connections with other artists

Influence on This field specifies the artists influenced by the artist in question, without there being question of an educational setting or servile following.: Palladio, Andrea

Product: treaty
titel: De pictura; titel: De statua; titel: De re aedificatoria

Literature

Literature in RKDLibrary: 10 hits in RKDlibrary as subject
3 hits in RKDlibrary as author

Thieme/Becker 1907-1950 , vol. 1, p. 555-569
Saur 1992- , AKLONLINE (november 2010) (as: Alberti, Leon Battista)
Bénézit 2006 , vol. 1, p. 238 (as: Alberti, Leon Battista degli)
Vöhringer 2010 , passim
Blake McHam 2013 , passim

P. Morselli, 'The Proportions of Ghiberti's Saint Stephen: Vitruvius's De Architectura and Alberti's De Statua', The Art Bulletin 60 (1978), p. 235-241
J.A. Aiken, 'Leon Battista Alberti's System of Human Proportions', Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes 43 (1980), p. 68-96
R. Verese, 'Un altro ritratto di Leon Battista Alberti', Mitteilungen des Kunsthistorischen Institutes in Florenz 29 (1985), p. 183-189
J. Rykwert, Leon Battista Alberti : On the Art of Building in Ten Books, London 1988, p. 442
A.W.G. Poséq, Alberti's Theory of Primitive Sculpture, Mitteilungen des Kunsthistorischen Institutes in Florenz 33 (1989), p. 380-384
S. Foster Baxendale, 'Exile in practice: the Alberti family in and out of Florence 1401-1428', Renaissance Quarterly 44 (1991) no. 4, p. 720-756
D. Marsh, Reviews: Leon Battista Alberti, "On the Art of Building in Ten Books, Cambridge 1988 / M. Jarzombek, "On Leon Baptista Alberti: His Literary and Aesthetic Theories", Cambridge 1990, Renaissance Quarterley 44 (1991) no. 4, p. 828-832
J. Poeschke, '"Prontezza". Zu Donatellos Georgstatue und Albertis mutmaßlichem Selbstbildnis', in: D. Dombrowski, K. Heusing & A. Dern, Zwischen den Welten: Beiträge zur Kunstgeschichte für Jürg Meyer zur Capellen. Festschrift zum 60. Geburtstag, Weimar 2001, p. 28-38
W. Boerefijn, 'Over de ideale uitleg van de stadsstraat circa 12de-16de eeuw: Misvattingen omtrent de 'renaissance' in de stedenbouw', Bulletin KNOB 102 (2003), p. 138-147
A. Grafton, Leon Battista Alberti: Un genio universale, Roma/Bari 2003
J. Poeschke, C. Syndikus, Leon Battista Alberti: Humanist - Architekt - Kunsttheoretiker, Münster 2008
M. Bulgarelli, Leon Battista Alberti, 1404-1472: Architettura e storia, Milano 2008
L. Madersbacher, '"Fatto alla spera"? Das Porträt des Leon Battista Alberti aus den Orti Oricellari', Mitteilungen des Kunsthistorischen Institutes in Florenz 58 (2016) no. 3, p. 318-347

http://www.treccani.it/biografie (oktober 2011)

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External links: http://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/leon-battista-alberti_(Dizionario-Biografico)/

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