Leon Battista Alberti

De Pictura, Tempio Malatestiano — Renaissance polymath

The ideal of the universal Renaissance man — architect, theorist, humanist, mathematician, and athlete. De Pictura (On Painting) gave artists the theoretical framework for perspective; his buildings — the Tempio Malatestiano, Sant'Andrea in Mantua — translated classical forms into a new architectural language.

Key works

• De Pictura (On Painting)1435— The theoretical foundation of Renaissance art
  Text — treatise
• Tempio Malatestiano, Rimini~1450— Classical facade wrapped around a Gothic church
  Rimini
• Sant'Andrea, Mantua1472— The model for Renaissance church design
  Mantua

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