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Alberti   /ɑlbˈɛrti/   Listen
Alberti

noun
1.
Italian architect and painter; pioneering theoretician of Renaissance architecture (1404-1472).  Synonym: Leon Battista Alberti.





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"Alberti" Quotes from Famous Books



... reveals the fact that they studied the body abstractly, in its exterior presentment. It is clear that the rules of its proportions must have been established for sculpture, and it is not unreasonable to suppose that they became canonical in architecture also. Vitruvius and Alberti both lay stress on the fact that all sacred buildings should be founded on the proportions ...
— The Beautiful Necessity • Claude Fayette Bragdon
... a Roman colony, is now the capital of a pleasant country, which, in the sixteenth century, devolved to the dukes of Savoy, (Leandro Alberti Descrizzione d'Italia, p. 382.)] ...
— The History of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire - Volume 3 • Edward Gibbon
... in control of the city. They had the support of the populace and the Alberti and ...
— Chit-Chat; Nirvana; The Searchlight • Mathew Joseph Holt


Words linked to "Alberti" :   painter, architect, designer


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