Leon Battista Alberti

The Roman orders, as defined by High Renaissance theorists from Leon Battista Alberti to Sebastiano Serlio, comprised the Greek orders revisited (Doric, Ionic and Corinthian) plus their own additions (Tuscan and Composite).

Renaissance architecture: how to identify the Roman orders 2011

Leon Battista Alberti had friends in high places, and he lived and worked in Roma, then wrote the first treatise on art and architecture including urbanism since the time of ancient Rome.

Olympic Line (short) closure notice « Stephen Rees's blog 2010

Andrea Petersen The church of Santa Maria Novella, only one of Florence's many gorgeous edifices, features a façade by Leon Battista Alberti and houses a crucifix by Giotto.

A Mecca of art – and Gelato 2008

Piero knew Euclidian geometry and the more recent application of mathematical principles to art by his slightly older contemporary Leon Battista Alberti.

Piero, in Perfect Proportion 2008

Piero knew Euclidian geometry and the more recent application of mathematical principles to art by his contemporary Leon Battista Alberti.

Piero, in Perfect Proportion Willard Spiegelman 2008

I was at the Art Institute, listening to someone talk about Leon Battista Alberti.

I seen mj 2007

However, considering that he was a great admirer of Leonardo da Vinci, it may be significant that the paintings he praised most wereThe Last Supper andThe Virgin of the Rocks.131 Some even thought Malraux shared certain characteristics with the Florentine genius: his biographer William Righter sees Malraux unequivocally as the descendant of “that Renaissance image of man as work of art…whose supreme exemplars were so often artists: Leonardo and Michelangelo, or Leon Battista Alberti.”

The Sion Revelation Lynn Picknett 2006

In the late 15th century, Italian painter and polymath Leon Battista Alberti invented one of the first known mechanical devices for encoding messages.

The Evolution Of Spy ToolsReinventing Intelligence: The Evolution Of Spy Tools Leah Hoffmann 2006

The first is a well-known system devised by the diplomat and occultist Blaise de Vigenère 1523–1596—who took the idea from a similar system by Leon Battista Alberti, a great personal influence on, and perhaps mentor to, Leonardo da Vinci.

The Sion Revelation Lynn Picknett 2006

The first is a well-known system devised by the diplomat and occultist Blaise de Vigenère 1523–1596—who took the idea from a similar system by Leon Battista Alberti, a great personal influence on, and perhaps mentor to, Leonardo da Vinci.

The Sion Revelation Lynn Picknett 2006