ARC 111 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Leon Battista Alberti, Pope Eugene Iv, Palazzo Rucellai

• School: University of Kentucky
• Department: Architecture
• Course: ARC 111
• Professor: Andrew Manson

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11 leon battista alberti from on the art of building, Alberti was not only the first great theorist of the renaissance but he, more than anyone else in this century, personified what came to be known as humanism. He was a man of great classical erudition. Born to a florentine father-in-exile and to a genoese mother, he studied greek and latin in padua and earned a. Doctor of law at the university of bologna. He seems to have dabbled in the arts in the 1420s, and even considered a literary career before becoming a cleric or secretary, first to cardinal carthusian nicolo. In 1428 the florentine ban against the alberti family was lifted and leon got to see firsthand early. Renaissance works, especially those of masaccio, donatello, and brunelleschi. He responded in 1435 with a treatise on painting, de pictura, dedicated to brunelleschi.