Concetti Chiave
- Leon Battista Alberti played a key role in spreading Renaissance language beyond Florence, transforming the artist's role from a craftsman to an intellectual.
- Alberti was a pioneering humanist-artist, integrating intellectual debate with visual arts and championing anthropocentrism, believing in limitless human potential.
- He emphasized the importance of theory over practice, viewing the artist as someone capable of both theorizing and applying concepts.
- Alberti approached art with a theoretical mindset, advocating that modern architects should transform architectural concepts.
- Many of his architectural works were executed by others, but they were founded on his theoretical designs.
Leon Battista Alberti
Stile e pensiero
Verso la metà del XV° secolo iniziò una rapida e dinamica diffusione del linguaggio rinascimentale anche in altri corti al di fuori della città di Firenze, Leon Battista Alberti fu uno dei primi esponenti del movimento con la volontà di sviluppare, diffondere il linguaggio rinascimentale. Fu proprio lui a modificare la professione dell’artista, considerato e visto al tempo come un
semplice lavoro artigianale.