{Renaissance Architecture [continued (3)]}[1st May 1991]

[Redbook9:221][19910501:0800c]{Renaissance Architecture [continued (3)]}[1^st May 1991]

19910501:0800

[continued]

‘For the Renaissance, proportion was the most important determining factor of beauty. The great Italian Humanist and architect Leon Battisti Alberti (1404-72[ce]) defined beauty in architecture as:

“a Harmony* of all the Parts in whatsoever Subject it appears, fitted together with such Proportion and Connection, the nothing could be added, diminished, or altered, but for the Worse.” (Ten Books on Architecture, trans. by J. Leoni, book VI, Ch 2, 1755).’**

***

*s~

**{also quoted above []}

[reference not found]

*** – ibid [Encyclopaedia Britannica 13:996]

[continued]

[PostedBlogger05042025]