2 Leon Battista Alberti’s ‘De pictura’ and the Christian Tradition of the Liberal Arts

Source: Spiritual language of art: The theme of medieval Christianity of Italian Renaissance art work, pp. 71-117

Leon Battista Alberti or Leone Battista Alberti (February 14, 1404 - 25 April 1472) was an Italian writer, poet, linguist, architect, philosopher, cryptologist and general Renaissance blogger. In Italy, his name is usually the spelling of Leon. The life of Alberti is written in Vite (Artist's Life) of Giorgio Vasari. Alberti studied teaching at Bologna University and accepted a sacred command to work for the Pope and Canon, but he was most interested in mathematics, art and classical architecture. In 1435, Alberti wrote the first general paper on perspective, De pictura (On Painting). De Re aedificatoria (1452, Ten Books on Architecture) patterned by Roman architect and engineer after de architecture is the first architectural paper of Renaissance, a wide range of topics ranging from history to urban planning and engineering It covered. . Philosophy of beauty

In 1435, Italian humanist, theorist, architect Leon Battista Alberti (1404-72) wrote a short article De Pictura (On Painting) to partially explain the art of perspective. To apologize for the picture itself, please explain the "correct" design principle. Although it was released in Italian next year, the first edition is Latin, and it seems that it is aimed at sponsorship because general artists are unlikely to be familiar with it. Surprisingly, he criticized the use of genuine gold: "Some people use lots of gold in their Eastleigh, they think it is majestic, imitating the golden light Painters using gold to do have more appreciation and praise (Alberti, 1966, p. 85).

Leon Battista Alberti is also known as Battista Alberti, Leo Battista Alberti, Leone Battista Alberti. He is known for his quest for philosophy, art, science and sports, and they have successfully become a true "renaissance". He is an architect, an artist, a clergy, a writer, a philosopher and a mathematician, making him one of the most comprehensive thinkers of his time. Leon Batista Alberti, a humanist philosopher, writer, Renaissance architect and artist theorist, is considered by many scholars to be the "universal people" of the Renaissance. In addition to writing papers, design architecture, science, art and philosophy papers, Leon Battista Alberti also wrote a groundbreaking study on Italian first book and cryptography. It is believed that he invented the cipher circle, and from the standing position his feet are said to be close to each other, Leon Battista Alberti can skim a man's head