Milena Rudnicka’s attempt to reconstruct the system of aesthetics of Leon Battista Alberti

Authors

  • Stepan Ivanyk

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.15633/ss.574

Keywords:

mathematics, aesthetics, Renaissance, numerus, finitio, collocatio, concinnitas

Abstract

This paper is aimed to present and give a critical analysis of content of typescript The role of mathematics in the aesthetics of Alberti (Lvov, 1918) written by famous Ukrainian scientist and social activist Milena Rudnicka. The author reconstructs Alberti’s theory of beauty in a specific way, based on an analysis of the major aesthetic concepts that Italian philosopher used in his main three treaties: Della pittura (1435), De re aedificatoria (1450–1452) and De statua (1464).

Author Biography

  • Stepan Ivanyk
    Doktor nauk humanistycznych w zakresie filozofii, adiunkt Zakładu Semiotyki Logicznej Instytutu Filozofii Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego. Zainteresowania naukowe: filozoficzna szkoła lwowsko-warszawska, historia filozofii polskiej i ukraińskiej.

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2013-09-30

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