The lineamentta of Alberti and the liberal arts. A relationship between rethoric and the taste in “De re aedificatoria”

Abstract

Leon Battista Alberti was a man of letters who also cultivated the servile arts. His architectural work is correlative of his treatise, De re aedificatoria, where lays the foundation for the promotion of architecture to the field of the liberal arts. It opens with Brunelleschi, among others, modernism in the Visual Arts. This currency link to the primacy of the visual on the oral, and will allow paint to soar on the mechanical arts. To do this, enter the lineamentta the concinnitas as rhetorical elements and, as mechanisms enabling the correction, interpretation, reflection and knowledge that will have its final on the notion of taste denouement, as it happens in the liberal arts.