L'uomo del Rinascimento

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...