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{{Short description|Classic architectural treatise}}{{italic title}}(File:Alberti - De re aedificatoria, 1541 - 2495761 F.jpeg|thumb|, title page of the 1541 edition)(File:De Re Aedificatoria.jpg|thumb|250px|upright=1.3|Title page of 1550 edition, Florence)’ (On the Art of Building) is a classic architectural treatise written by Leon Battista Alberti between 1443 and 1452.Cecil Grayson, in Kunstkronik 213 (1960:359ff, and Münchener Jahrbuch der Bildenden Kunst 11’ (1960), demonstrated that the bulk of the composition was carried out between these dates. Although largely dependent on Vitruvius’s , it was the first theoretical book on the subject written in the Italian Renaissance, and in 1485 it became the first printed book on architecture. It was followed in 1486 with the first printed edition of Vitruvius.- the content below is remote from Wikipedia
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File:L’architettura (1565) (14758258226).jpg|thumb|Plate from a 1565 edition, showing the plan of a basilicabasilica{{further|Mathematics and architecture|Mathematics and art}}Alberti’s Ten Books consciously echoes Vitruvius’s writing, but Alberti also adopts a critical attitude toward his predecessor. In his discussion, Alberti includes a wide variety of literary sources, including Plato and Aristotle, presenting a concise version of the sociology of architecture. is subdivided into ten books and includes:- Book One: Lineaments
- Book Two: Materials
- Book Three: Construction
- Book Four: Public Works
- Book Five: Works of Individuals
- Book Six: Ornament
- Book Seven: Ornament to Sacred Buildings
- Book Eight: Ornament to Public Secular Buildings
- Book Nine: Ornament to Private Buildings
- Book Ten: Restoration of Buildings
remained the classic treatise on architecture from the 16th until the 18th century.
Book Nine
In Book Nine, Alberti presents his comments about aesthetic theory and beauty which Borsi summarizes on page 234 of his Alberti book stating: “In short, what are the elements that constitute beauty? (Or what elements derive from each particular kind of beauty?) The question is a difficult one.” Quoting Alberti, Borsi presents Alberti as stating: “For whatever that property be which is chosen from the whole number and nature of the several parts or attributed to each of them in precise and equal measure, or which must be such as to form a single entity of organism out of a number of parts, binding them together in a just, stable and harmonious manner... it must certainly contain within itself the value, I would almost say the essence of all the above-mentioned parts with which it is connected or which it compenetrates. Otherwise they would clash and the beauty of the whole be lost. This enquiry and selection is in itself far from easy or obvious. But it is particularly hazardous and difficult in the field we have chosen to enquire into, for architecture consists of so many various parts, and each of these parts requires so many different ornaments, as we have already seen.“For Borsi, Alberti is deriving his viewpoint from the Enneads by Plotinus.Borsi, p.234.See also
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{{reflist}}References
- Alberti, Leon Battista. De re aedificatoria. On the art of building in ten books. (translated by Joseph Rykwert, Robert Tavernor and Neil Leach). Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press, 1988.
- Biermann, Veronica. ‘Der Architekturtraktat. Leon Battista Alberti: De re aedificatoria 1452’, in: Erben, Dietrich (ed.). Das Buch als Entwurf. Textgattungen in der Geschichte der Architekturtheorie. Ein Handbuch. Paderborn: Fink, 2019. pp. 32â55.
- Grafton, Anthony. Leon Battista Alberti: master builder of the Italian Renaissance. New York: Hill and Wang, 2000.
- Tavernor, Robert. On Alberti and the Art of Building. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1998.
- Wittkower, Rudolph. Architectural Principles in the Age of Humanism (London: Tiranti) 1962; (New York: Random House) 1965. Part I.i “Alberti’s Program of the Ideal Church”; part ii “Alberti’s Approach to Antiquity in Architecture”; part IV.iii “Alberti’s ‘Generation’ of Ratios”.
- Fontana-Giusti, Gordana. ‘Walling and the city: the effects of walls and walling within the city space’, The Journal of Architecture pp 309â45 Volume 16, Issue 3, London & New York: Routledge, 2011www.tandfonline.com/toc/rjar20/16/3.UlGA8ChTNUQ
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