La Rinascita….

  Quattrocentro:  Italian Renaissance Architecture The Beginning The word “renaissance” was derived from the Italian phrase la rinascita (meaning rebirth).  This term was first seen in Vasari’s The Lives of the Artists (1550-1568). …

Leon Battista Alberti

 Quattrocentro:  Profile of Italian Renaissance Architect:  Leon Battista Alberti  Italian Renaissance Architect, Leon Battista Alberti was a native to Genoa, Italy.  He was born in 1406.  He began his artistic studies…