Firenze, l'uomo del Rinascimento The Renaissance Man
Leon Battista Alberti
and the Arts in Florence between Reason and Beauty

Firenze, Palazzo Strozzi, 11 March - 23 July 2006

A supreme architect and town planner, a prodigious scholar and an extremely acute art theorist, but also a mathematician, painter, archaeologist, physicist, chemist and musician, Leon Battista Alberti (1404-1472) was the man that embodied the universal ideals of Humanism before Leonardo. He possessed an intellect capable of penetrating the most diverse fields, of formulating original syntheses of reason and beauty, of defining the rules of a new aesthetics and of shaping the sensibility of an epoch... More info? click here  ¶ 9:52 AM