RENAISSANCEWEEK 4Compiled by Amy

MARCUS VITRUVIUS POLLIO DE ARCHITECTURA

• Vitruvian Virtues

• SOLID or firmitas

• USEFUL or utilitas

• BEAUTIFUL or venustas

• Architecture is an imitation of nature.

• First defined the Vitruvius Man

• First Roman architect

• Book 1 Landscape architecture

• Book 2

• Book VIII, IX, X Roman Technology

• Water wheels, Water mills

• Catapults, ballistae, siege engines

• Sundials, water clocks, aeolipile (steam engine)

• Aqueduct construction, inverted siphon Construction materials, stucco painting, lime

• Lead poisoning Archimedes Screw, reverse overshot water wheel

• Surveying instruments including an odometer

• Central Heating, public baths,

LEON BAPTISTA ALBERTITREATING ON PAINTING 1435

• Italian Author

• Artist

• Poet

• Priest

• Linguist

• Philosopher

• Cryptographer

• Humanist

• Polymath

TREATISE ON ARCHITECTURE, PAINTING, AND STATUARY

MANTUA, ITALY: CHURCH OF SANT’ANDREA

• Designed by Leon Baptista Alberti

SANTA MARIA NOVELLA

Santa Maria Novella Tempio Malatestiano

I LIBRI DELLA FAMIGLIA

• I Libri Della Famiglia

• Stressed the need for education reform.

• He said that the care of very young children is women’s work, for nurses or for the mother and that at the earliest possible age, children should be taought the alphabet.

CIPHER DISK

SANDRO BOTTICELLI 1445-1510

JOHANN GUTENBERG 1440

LEONARDO DA VINCI 1452-1519