Leon Battista Alberti Research Paper

. Leon Battista Alberti (1404-1472) rediscovered and made linear perspective popular. Although the principle of the linear perspective was found first by Fillipo
Brunelleschi, Alberti disclosed and explained it in the book On Painting. Precisely Alberi explained mathematically what proportions of the objects’ size had to be used in linear perspective. Alberti was born in Genoa in the noble family, studied in Padua and Bologna, lived in Florence and Rome. Aside of working on linear perspective, Alberti contributed to the development of cryptography and was a famous architect. He constructed Rucellai Palace,
Tempio Malatestiano, Piazza Pio II, etc. Alberti’s architectural projects were funded mainly by the Vatican.
2. A phrase in Latin “memento
Funeral traditions, architecture, and art are the examples of memento mori principle. In fine art and painting, Rogier Van der Weyden’s Braque Triptych, Michael
Wolgemut’s Dance of Death, Vanitas by Philippe de Champaigne’s, Young Man with a Skull by Frans Hals are the best known examples of memento mori.

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3. The canonical models of the Renaissance painting are sfumato, unione, cangiante, and chiaroscuro. Sfumato is a specific technique, which blurs the edges of the painting, mixes its colors with dark and white tones to get mild and smooth effect. The technique was invented by Leonardo da Vinci. Unione uses intensity instead of smoothing the colors and allows brighter spots, more vibrant edges, and more perceptible contours. Raphael developed the technique of unione. Cangiante replaces one color by another. Cangiante technique allows to use any color to depict an object, no matter what it is in reality. Fra Angelico was famous for using cangiante. Chiaroscuro technique plays with lights and shadows of exceptional intensity. The source of light is only one, the shadows are sharp and dark. Caravaggio contributed to the development of chiaroscuro greatly.
4. Hans Holbein the Younger (1497-1543) was a famous artist, born in Germany and worked
10. The first purpose of Versailles’ building was celebrating The Pleasures of the Enchanted
Island, organized by King Louis XIV. The second campaign honored the Treaty of Aix-la-
Chapelle signing and the end of the War of Devolution. The third was the honor of the end of the Dutch War and the Treaty of Nijmegen signing. The fourth campaign signed the defeat in the War of the League of Ausburg.
11. Inverted perspective is a method of painting, in which the more distant objects from the viewer are displayed larger. Thus, the lines converge not on the horizon, but within the viewer. 12. Orientalism is a style in art appeared in the XIXth century, in which Western artists depict the

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14. Romanticism is an ideological and stylistic direction in Western art of the XIXth century, in which the main subject matter includes a person, his or her emotions, passions and desires, based on