Leone Battista Alberti, İtalyan Mimar,müzisyen,ressam,oyun Yazarı

Leone Battista Alberti, İtalyan mimar,müzisyen,ressam,oyun yazarı




ALBERTI, LEONE (1404-72) Erken İtalyan Rönesansı mimarı Aynı zamanda oyun yazarı, müzisyen ve ressam Albeni, Rimini'deki Tempio Malatestiano'yu yaptı ve Floransa'da çalıştı Santa Maria Novella kilisesinin cephesinı inşa etti


Leone Battista Alberti's father was Lorenzo Alberti We do not know who his mother was, and there is reason to believe that he was an illegitimate child His father's family were wealthy and had been involved in banking and commercial business in Florence during the 14th century In fact the success of the city of Florence during this period is to a large extent a consequence of the success of the Alberti family, whose firm had branches spread widely through north Italy Not content with their major financial achievements, however, members of the family became involved in politics This turned out to be a disaster and the family was driven out of Florence after decrees were passed to exile them It was for this reason that Lorenzo Alberti came to be living in Genoa at the time his son was born, for there he was safe yet still able to continue his wealthy life style within a local branch of the family firm
As a child Leone Battista received his mathematical education from his father Lorenzo However, when the plague struck Genoa, Lorenzo rapidly went with his children to Venice where the firm also had a major branch run by members of the Alberti family However, Lorenzo died shortly after arriving in Venice and Leone Battista began living with one of his uncles This arrangement was short-lived for the uncle soon vanished It is likely that by this time members of the family were attempting by unscrupulous means to gain access to the family fortune Leone Battista attended a school in Padua then, from 1421, he attended the University of Bologna where he studied law but did not enjoy this topic He became ill through overwork but still managed to gain a degree in canon law It was around this time that he became interested in pursuing his mathematical studies, rather as a way to relax when stressed out by his law studies which he found made far too large demands on memory Also around this time he wrote a comedy Philodoxius (Lover of Glory, 1424), composed in Latin verse By this time the decrees which had forced his family to flee from Florence had been revoked and Alberti went to live in the city where he met Brunelleschi and the two became good friends They shared an interest in mathematics and, through Brunelleschi, Alberti became interested in architecture At this stage, however, his interest was purely theoretical and he did not put his theories into practice In 1430 Alberti began working for a cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church This post meant that he travelled a lot, in particular to France, Belgium and Germany In 1432 he began following a literary career as a secretary in the Papal Chancery in Rome writing biographies of the saints in elegant Latin Going to Rome was highly significant for Alberti, for there he fell in love with the ancient classical architecture which he saw all around This led him to study not only classical architecture but also painting and sculpture Alberti served Pope Eugene IV but this was a period of considerable weakness for the Papacy and military action against the Pope forced Eugene IV out of Rome on several occasions Alberti left Rome with the Pope at such times and spent time at the court in Rimini Nicholas V, who was Pope from 1447 to 1455, was an enthusiast for classical studies and produced an environment much suited to Alberti who presented him with his book on architecture De re aedificatoria in 1452 Alberti modelled the book on the classical work by Vitruvius and copied his format by dividing his text into ten books Vitruvius (1st century BC) was the author of the famous treatise De architectura (On Architecture) The methods of fortification which Alberti set out in the text were highly influential and were used in the fortification of towns for several hundred years In 1447, the year Nicholas V became Pope, Alberti became a canon of the Metropolitan Church of Florence and Abbot of Sant' Eremita of Pisa Pope Nicholas V employed him on a number of major architectural projects and we describe below some of his remarkable buildings