The current standard of linear perspective was developed by architect, poet, and humanist, Leon Battista Alberti. He's widely considered the father of Early Renaissance in the art world ...

Late in the 1460s, Leon Battista Alberti wrote a book on ciphers ... In it he pointed out that the ancients had not grasped the principles of perspective – which Brunelleschi had devised, and Masaccio ...

They were Renaissance billionaires – hence Leon Battista’s anguish ... in drawing from life in correct perspective. I’m told it remains in use in the (compulsory) art classes in Italian secondary ...

Like a signal from the past, Leon Battista Alberti’s De re aedificatoria—On the Art of Building, completed in 1452—transmitted urban-planning concepts of classical antiquity to the ...