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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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    1450 De re aedificatoria (On the Art of Building); it became the first printed book on architecture in 1485. It was partly based on Vitruvius's De architectura...
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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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    [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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    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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    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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  • Canon Vitruvius De architectura Renaissance Filippo Brunelleschi Leon Battista Alberti De pictura De re aedificatoria Piero della Francesca De prospectiva...
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    that Leon Battista Alberti dedicated to Nicholas V his treatise De re aedificatoria. His first care was practical, to reinforce the city's fortifications...
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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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    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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    Renaissance garden (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    In 1452, the architect Leon Battista Alberti dedicated his work "De re aedificatoria" (On Architecture) to Pope Nicholas V. In this work, Alberti drew...
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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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    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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    Giotto's Campanile (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    (dome of the cathedral of Florence) and Alberti (with his treatise De re aedificatoria, 1450), one of the founding fathers of Italian Renaissance architecture...
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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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  • Art") is completed after this date 1485 – Leon Battista Alberti, De Re Aedificatoria (written 1443–52) becomes the first printed work on architecture...
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  • becomes prebendary of Lincoln Cathedral. Leon Battista Alberti - De Re Aedificatoria (first printed book on architecture) Joseph Albo - Sefer ha-Ikkarim...
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    from drawings of other architects. Leon Battista Alberti, in his De re aedificatoria, the first major treatise on Renaissance architecture, written in...
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    modern knowledge of Roman building methods, planning, and design. De re aedificatoria – classic architectural treatise written by Leon Battista Alberti...
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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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    architecture than in the humanist rules defined by Alberti in his book De Re Aedificatoria. Though impressive, the original palazzo would have been no rival...
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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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  • Renaissance. His first publication was a translation from the Latin of de re aedificatoria, the fifteenth century treatise on architecture written by Italian...
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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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  • mania - Danube school - Dardanelles Gun - David (Donatello) - De pictura - De re aedificatoria - Demi-culverin - Desco da parto - Diamond vault - Donor portrait...
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