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The Mathematical Works of Leon Battista Alberti
Leon Battista Alberti (–72) was an archetypical Renaissance figure whose interests and works ranged over the cultural and technical landscape of his day. An early fascination with human nature produced a comedy in the antique style, a light-hearted collection of dinner pieces, a dissertation on the life of the intellectual, a discourse on the character of love and another on virtue and family relations. After these, came a careful study of the law as well as a proposal to reform the Tuscan language through the introduction of Latin words and phrases. Alberti’s fame, however, rests not on these achievements but on the results of his mathematical intelligence, technical curiosity and inventor’s skill applied to the naturlig eller utan tillsats of art – to painting, sculpture and architecture – as well as the art of writing in code. Alberti’s most well-known works are De re Aedificatoria (“On Architecture”), the first comprehensive treatment of the subje
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&#;Colour and light have an important relationship in the act of seeing&#;colours multiply among themselves, but, like the elements, there are only four true colours from which other species of colour are born. There is red, the colour of fire; blue, of air; green, of water; and earth, ashen grey&#;from these four colours according to the addition of light or dark, black or vit, are made innumerable other hues. Therefore the mixing in of white will not change the basic colour, but just man tints;&#; and black has a similar power, with its addition making an almost infinite number of colours. You can see colours alter in the shade; when the shade deepens the colours fade, when the light brightens they become brighter and clearer.&#; &#; Leon Battista Alberti
ON PAINTING
Leon Battista Alberti () and Susan Allix
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Leon Alberti was born in in Florence. His art was influenced by the work of Brunelleschi, Donatello, and Masaccio. He wrote On Painting
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