1. Leon Battista Alberti
... ages to indicate its position between the classical and modern world. The world of architecture felt the impact of the decline in a great way, and Fillipo Brunelleschi, Leon Battista Alberti, and Andrea Palladio made renowned buildings that characterize and express the development of Renaissance architecture. "In the case of Fillipo Brunelleschi; just like Forese da Rabatta and Giotto he ... the self-contained stability and dignity associated with ancient Roman Architecture (Cleaver, 1966). Fillipo Brunelleschi's successor as the leader in Renaissance architecture was Leon Battista Albert...
... to perfectly express the truth of nature to the eye. Brunelleschi was credited for his understanding of Nature's numbers and his success in incorporating Augustinian philosophies into his architecture. Leon Battista Alberti, a "universal man," who wrote a book that many artists follow, highly praised Brunelleschi's work of architecture not just for his design, but also for his knowledge and ... logical, measurable, naturalistic and unified space, just as Masaccio was able to do, and that Brunelleschi's discovery of perspective provided the solution. As an accomplished mathematician and g...
... diminishing size of objects as they appear further away. These optical and geometrical principals allowed artists of Brunelleschi's generation to produce works of much greater realism than ever before. Leon Battista Alberti published a treatise that established, for the first time , guidelines for drawing three dimensional scenes on a two dimensional panel or wall, based on Brunelleschi's findings. 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 pe...