Alberti (1404–1472) Was an Italian architect, art theorist, and poet
Alberti, the illegitimate son of the Florentine political exiles, had a wide range of interests and talents from an early age, and in his youth he studied at the Universities of Padua and Bologna, where he received a humanistic education.
In his youth, he was known for his all-round development and versatility, literary, artistic, musical, scientific, omnipotent.
In the 1930s, he served as papal secretary, traveled to Europe, became acquainted with the upper echelons of the world, and had close relations with the florentine new art world, with Brunelleschi and Donatello being his friends.
Ash's versatility always served the popular "civic-conscious humanism" worldview at that time, and was called the "all-rounder" and "all-rounder" of the Renaissance dawn.
He believed that nature itself was perfect, sacred, eternal, harmoniously encompassing the entire human life and permeating the essence of all things.
Ashi is passionate about all new things, and has been moved to tears by the exploits of his predecessors in archaeological excavations; he has put forward theories of modernity such as "art is a moderator of death" and "every artist has a narcissistic complex".
He was a master of organ composition and performance, and his works were imbued with the passion of early humanism.
He wrote plays, poems, and dialogues, showing a desire for freedom, a rebellion against fate, and a celebration of worldly virtues.
He discussed general mechanics, hydrostatics, thermodynamics, optics and other sciences, expounded the relationship between artistic images and mathematical principles, developed the laws of perspective painting, and was a pioneer in projection geometry.
His "Describing the City of Rome" and "Mathematical Games" are the earliest works to use observations to measure land area and scale maps, and advocate the use of astrolabes to find the relative positions of points on the ground to measure in the field, so he is known as the "father of modern surveying".
After the age of 40, Ash specialized in architecture, and he designed nine main cathedrals. These buildings make full use of classical columns and emphasize the elegance and solemnity of style, and are the representative works of the Renaissance after Brunelleschi.
He was the most famous art theorist at that time, and the aesthetic work "On Painting" first proposed that spatial representation should be based on the principle of perspective geometry, detailing the perspective method invented by Brunelleschi, emphasizing the observation of physical objects, photographing and conveying gods, facing nature and gathering materials to create ideal models, laying the theoretical foundation for the realism and scientific techniques of Renaissance painting.
"On Architecture" introduces classical architectural principles and design rules, points out that beauty lies in the harmony of proportions, opposes medieval mysticism, emphasizes the socio-political function of architecture, and is regarded as the standard of the new architectural world.
His writings provided direct methodological and theoretical guidance for artists and pioneered the theoretical exploration of Renaissance art.
From Alberti's lifelong pursuit and effort,
We can see the great power of the human will,
We can see the most essential content of the new outlook on life,
It can also be seen that human beings have longed for and pursued an elegant and natural artistic style.