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cortneexx123
Mar 21, 2011, 08:03 AM

cortneexx123
Mar 21, 2011, 08:03 AM

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Mar 21, 2011, 08:04 AM

Alethia312
May 5, 2011, 11:26 PM
Leon Battista Alberti (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leon_Battista_Alberti) was an Italian author, artist, architect, poet, priest, linguist, philosopher, and cryptographer, and general Renaissance humanist polymath. An Italian humanist, Alberti is often seen as a model of the Renaissance "universal man".

CliffARobinson
Aug 15, 2011, 06:53 PM
Alberti's approach to architecture was to pay tribute to ancient Roman design. He also chose to combine form and function, as an example, he used columns as they were originally intended; as load-bearing support in the Church of Sant'Andrea (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:SantAndreaDellaValle_Facade.JPG), rather than as decoration and several of the church façades he designed were based on Roman era architecture.

A humanist (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renaissance_humanism), like many of his peers, his intent was to design buildings that would illicit emotion as well as reason.