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Society, Beauty, and the Humanist Architect in Alberti's de re aedificatoria

1969; Cambridge University Press; Volume: 16; Linguagem: Inglês

10.2307/2857173

2326-0823

Carroll William Westfall,

Renaissance and Early Modern Studies

Leon Battista Albertl's de re aedificatoria has not been clearly discussed as a theory of architecture with an appeal far beyond the practice of architecture. Alberti's intention was not only to give a theory for practice but also to integrate architecture with a broad interpretation of the new humanist culture. The treatise, begun sometime in the 1440s and substantially completed by 1450, begins where his della pittura of 1435 had left off; it therefore belongs to that fertile period in his career before he had endulged in the actual practice of architecture. Still primarily a man of letters, it was to other humanists that he addressed himself and to other humanists that he must have owed his primary debt.