Book One on the Art of Building Lineaments Alberti
De re aedificatoria, championship page of the 1541 edition
Title folio of 1550 edition, Florence
De re aedificatoria ( On the Fine art of Building ) is a archetype architectural treatise written by Leon Battista Alberti between 1443 and 1452.[i] Although largely dependent on Vitruvius'southward De architectura, it was the kickoff theoretical volume on the subject area written in the Italian Renaissance, and in 1485 it became the first printed book on architecture. It was followed in 1486 with the first printed edition of Vitruvius.
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Plate from a 1565 edition, showing the plan of a basilica
Alberti'due south 10 Books consciously echoes Vitruvius'south writing, but Alberti also adopts a disquisitional attitude toward his predecessor. In his discussion, Alberti includes a wide variety of literary sources, including Plato and Aristotle, presenting a concise version of the sociology of compages. De re aedificatoria is subdivided into ten books and includes:
- Volume Ane: Lineaments
- Book Ii: Materials
- Volume Three: Construction
- Book Iv: Public Works
- Book Five: Works of Individuals
- Volume Six: Ornamentation
- Book 7: Decoration to Sacred Buildings
- Volume Eight: Ornament to Public Secular Buildings
- Book 9: Ornament to Private Buildings
- Book Ten: Restoration of Buildings
In his survey of desirable floor plans for sacred buildings – "temples" in his phrase—Alberti begins with the ideal form of the circle, which is expressed in numerous examples of Nature. Ix platonic centrally– planned geometrical shapes are recommended for churches; also the circle he lists the square, the hexagon, octagon, decagon, and dodecagon, all derived from the circle, and, derived from the square, rectangles that exhibit the foursquare and a one-half, square and a third and double square, all of which have enharmonic parallels in music. Chapels add together modest geometric figures to the basic circles and polygons to give a swell variety of flooring plans, in which each geometrical figure retains its clear unity and simple ratios that bind all elements of the plans and elevations into a harmonic unity.
De re aedificatoria remained the archetype treatise on compages from the 16th until the 18th century.
Book Nine [edit]
In Volume 9, Alberti presents his comments about aesthetic theory and beauty which Borsi summarizes on page 234 of his Alberti volume stating: "In short, what are the elements that establish beauty? (Or what elements derive from each particular kind of beauty?) The question is a difficult one." Quoting Alberti, Borsi presents Alberti as stating:
"For whatsoever that property be which is chosen from the whole number and nature of the several parts or attributed to each of them in precise and equal mensurate, or which must be such as to form a single entity of organism out of a number of parts, binding them together in a but, stable and harmonious manner... it must certainly comprise within itself the value, I would virtually say the essence of all the to a higher place-mentioned parts with which information technology is connected or which information technology compenetrates. Otherwise they would clash and the dazzler of the whole be lost. This inquiry and selection is in itself far from like shooting fish in a barrel or obvious. But it is especially hazardous and difficult in the field we have called to inquire into, for architecture consists of and so many various parts, and each of these parts requires so many different ornaments, as we have already seen."
For Borsi, Alberti is deriving his viewpoint from the Enneads by Plotinus.[2]
See too [edit]
- De pictura
Notes [edit]
- ^ Cecil Grayson, in Kunstkronik 213 (1960:359ff, and Münchener Jahrbuch der Bildenden Kunst 11 (1960), demonstrated that the majority of the composition was carried out between these dates.
- ^ Borsi, p.234.
References [edit]
- Alberti, Leon Battista. De re aedificatoria. On the art of building in ten books. (translated past Joseph Rykwert, Robert Tavernor and Neil Leach). Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press, 1988.
- Grafton, Anthony. Leon Battista Alberti: master builder of the Italian Renaissance. New York: Loma and Wang, 2000.
- Tavernor, Robert. On Alberti and the Art of Building. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1998.
- Wittkower, Rudolph. Architectural Principles in the Age of Humanism (London: Tiranti) 1962; (New York: Random House) 1965. Office I.i "Alberti'southward Programme of the Ideal Church"; part 2 "Alberti'due south Approach to Antiquity in Architecture"; part IV.iii "Alberti's 'Generation' of Ratios".
- Fontana-Giusti, Gordana. 'Walling and the city: the effects of walls and walling within the urban center infinite', The Journal of Architecture pp 309–45 Volume 16, Consequence iii, London & New York: Routledge, 2011 http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rjar20/16/three#.UlGA8ChTNUQ
External links [edit]
- X Books on Architecture past Leone Battista Alberti
- Latin, French and Italian editions of De re aedificatoria
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_re_aedificatoria
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