Leon
Battista Alberti and Marsilio Ficino, though separated by twenty-nine
years in age, had a close relationship as mentor and pupil. Concepts
which can be found in Alberti's De Pictura (1435) and De Re
Aedificatoria (1450) are infused in Ficino's De Amore (1469). The
concepts include Alberti's theories of armonia, lineamenti, concinnitas,
ornamento, and the pyramid of light in the theory of vision. In both
Alberti and Ficino, harmonies shared by the body and music are
manifestations of the harmonies of the soul. Beauty in body and matter
is determined by beauty in mind (mens), that part of mind directed
toward intellectus divinus, and beauty is made manifest in mind by the
lineamenti, the lines in the mind which are distinguished from matter.
Beauty is the internal perfection of the intellectus divinus, which is
the good, which is a perfect harmony called concinnitas. Ornament is not
beauty, but rather a physical complement to beauty. http://www.academia.edu/2223434/Alberti_and_Ficino
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