Lux pulchritudinis: sobre beleza e ornamento em Leon Battista Alberti / Lux pulchritudinis: on beauty and ornament in Leon Battista Alberti

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DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2007

RESUMO

Inspired in tuscan airs, inflamed by ancient sources and girded by Roman ruins, Leon Battista Alberti composes, in latin letters, a modern doctrine of beauty sowed upon the treatises on the Arts. In that, beauty glares in pulchritudo and ornamentum: the former, proportional harmony of the parts within a body that does not accepts additions or subtractions or alterations, is inherent quality; the latter, adherent to the figure, is auxiliary light and fair complement. Evoking the rhetoric of Cicero and Quintilian, and invoking comely, organic, metaphors, the albertian precepts, by fusing the notions of decorum and aptum and accommodating aesthethical principles and ethical motivations, surpasses the separation between structure and ornament, attenuating the idea of a beauty only emerged from proportional relation, ending modern oppositions between ornatus and utilitas.

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leon battista alberti leon battista alberti teoria da arte architectural theory estética (artes) aesthetics (arts) teoria da arquitetura art theory renascimento

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