Classical antiquity and the interest and learning that accompanied it was reborn after the Middle Ages in a period popularly known as the Renaissance. The Renaissance refers to a phase in European history approximately between 1400 and 1600 which fused the periods of the Middle Ages and The Age of Enlightenment. During the Renaissance, classical philosophy was largely disregarded and blotted out. …show more content…
He was a proficient sportsman and playwright who wrote elegant dialogues and fables. He was an eminent art-theorist of the Early Renaissance in Italy. A man with an iron will and his dictum being “men can do all things if they will.”, Alberti seemed bound to succeed at any pursuit. Jacob Burckhardt, a 19th century historian saw him as a paragon of Renaissance heroes, and since then he has been celebrated as one of the greatest urban theorists and architects of his …show more content…
It was inspired by the burgeoning pictorial art in Florence in the early 15th century.In the above peiece he analyses the nature of painting and explores elements such as colour,composition and perspective.
In the following years he concentrated and honed his passion in architecture he was encouraged and supported by the Marchese Leonello d Este of Ferrara, for whom he built a small triumphal arc to support an equestrian statue of Leonello's