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    De re aedificatoria (On the Art of Building) is a classic architectural treatise written by Leon Battista Alberti between 1443 and 1452. Although largely...
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    himself chiefly as a man of culture. Leon Battista Alberti wrote his De Re Aedificatoria at Leonello's commission, and at the Ferrarese court there worked...
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    architects of churches for four hundred years. In 1452, he completed De re aedificatoria, a treatise on architecture, using as its basis the work of Vitruvius...
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    It is one of his three treatises on art; the other two are De statua and De re aedificatoria, that would form the Renaissance concept for the fine arts:...
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    Battista Alberti published it in his seminal treatise on architecture, De re aedificatoria (c. 1450). The first known Latin printed edition was by Fra Giovanni...
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    architecture was De re aedificatoria ("On the Subject of Building") by Leon Battista Alberti in 1450. It was to some degree dependent on Vitruvius's De architectura...
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    [citation needed] Architecture portal Ancient Rome portal History portal De re aedificatoria – Classic architectural treatise by Leon Battista Alberti I quattro...
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    interpretation of architecture, moving beyond his statements in De Re Aedificatoria where he considered the column the noblest ornament of building....
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    least to the works of Leon Battista Alberti (1404–1472): De re aedificatoria, De statua, De pictura, which focused on the importance of the intellectual...
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  • translation by Marsilio Ficino 1485 Leon Battista Alberti (died 1472) – De Re Aedificatoria (written 1443–52), the first printed work on architecture Joseph...
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    Alberti, who elaborates on the ideas of Vitruvius in his treatise, De re aedificatoria, saw beauty primarily as a matter of proportion, although ornament...
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    himself, translated by Giacomo Leoni and published from 1715 onwards; De re aedificatoria (On the Art of Building), by Leon Battista Alberti, translated by...
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  • Canon Vitruvius De architectura Renaissance Filippo Brunelleschi Leon Battista Alberti De pictura De re aedificatoria Piero della Francesca De prospectiva...
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    suggested by Leon Battista Alberti. Leon Battista Alberti in his De re aedificatoria (English: On the Art of Building) mentions the Composite order, calling...
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    (ornamenta). Since the publication of De re aedificatoria (1452) by Leon Battista Alberti (1404–1472), patterned after the De architectura by the Roman architect...
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    libri dell'architettura (The Four Books of Architecture, 1715), De re aedificatoria by Leon Battista Alberti (first published in 1452) and The Designs...
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    Clairaut, "Du systeme du monde, dans les principes de la gravitation universelle", in "Histoires (& Memoires) de l'Academie Royale des Sciences" for 1745 (published...
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    author of ten books of treatises on modern architecture titled De re aedificatoria written about 1450 with additions made until the time of his death...
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    Younger, Pliny the Elder, and Varro. The treatise on architecture, De re aedificatoria, by Leon Battista Alberti, which described in detail Roman villas...
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    such highlights as the first Western printed book on architecture, De re aedificatoria (1485), by Leone Battista Alberti; Francesco Colonna's Hypnerotomachia...
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    Battista Alberti's recommendation in his architectural treatise, De re aedificatoria, that in larger structures the column, inherited from Greek architecture...
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    garden. The first Renaissance text to include garden design was De re aedificatoria (The Ten Books of Architecture), by Leon Battista Alberti (1404–1472)...
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    (1405–1464) 1452. De re ædificatoria by Leone Battista Alberti (1404–1472) 1471. Contra amores by Bartolomeo Platina (1421–1481) 1479. De inventione dialectica...
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    practice ignored the Tuscan order, and so did Leon Battista Alberti in De re aedificatoria (shortly before 1452). Following Serlio's interpretation of Vitruvius...
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    in Rimini, but even more for his seminal treatise on architecture De re aedificatoria. Alberti had also designed the façade for the Rucellai Palace in...
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    that Leon Battista Alberti dedicated to Nicholas V his treatise De re aedificatoria. He is the last pope to date to take the pontifical name "Nicholas"...
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  • Palladio. 1490s – 1480s – Vitruvius' treatise De architectura and Leon Battista Alberti's De re aedificatoria were published, having previously existed only...
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    cube was applied in Alberti's treatise on Renaissance architecture, De re aedificatoria (1450). Kubuswoningen is known for a set of cubical houses in which...
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    Italian architect Leon Battista Alberti wrote a treatise entitled De Re aedificatoria, which theorized methods of building fortifications capable of withstanding...
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    the new idea of villa in his De re aedificatoria. These first examples of Renaissance villa predate the age of Lorenzo de' Medici, who added the Villa...
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