1. Leon Alberti - Renaissance Man
Before the invention of a theory of mathematical perspective, artists of the middle ages were more interested in depicting religious, spiritual truths rather than the real, physical world. ... He rediscovered the principals of linear perspective construction, a technique which had been known to the ancient Greeks and Romans but forgotten during the middle ages. ... This book 'Della Pittura' presented the use of perspective in a mathematical sense and laid the foundation for further developments of both the theoretical and the practical aspects of perspective. ... The ancient Greeks ...
When the new upper class movement, Renaissance, occurred in Italy around the 14th century, a revival of the classical forms originally developed by the ancient Greeks and Romans, an intensified concern with secular life, and interest in humanism and assertion of the importance of the individual began. ... His most famous and recognized work, however, the Birth of Venus uses the combination of mythology and religion, also a popular humanistic idea adopted from the Greeks. ... This then allowed the creation of new styles and mathematical input that manifested everyday life with religious aspe...
Inspired by the works of ancient Greece and Rome, Renaissance artists produced paintings and sculptures based upon the observation of the visible world and practiced according to mathematical principles of balance, harmony, and human perspective. ...