What did Leon Battista Alberti see as the most important part of beauty?

Proportion.

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Why: Alberti saw beauty mainly as a matter of proportion, based on rules governing the idealized human figure.

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Answer: Proportion. Alberti saw beauty mainly as a matter of proportion, based on rules governing the idealized human figure.

  1. Architecture en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Architecture
    saw beauty primarily as a matter of proportion
    Checked 2026-11-07.

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