Leon Battista Alberti
Leon Battista Alberti
Leon Battista Albertiwas 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...
NationalityItalian
ProfessionArchitect
Date of Birth14 February 1404
CountryItaly
Beauty: the adjustment of all parts proportionately so that one cannot add or subtract or change without impairing the harmony of the whole.
Men can do all things if they will.
A man can do all things if he but wills them.