Glossary · C
Concinnitas
Alberti’s term for beauty: the harmony of number, outline and position among all the parts of a building, such that nothing could be added or removed except for the worse.
Rules that use the word
Beauty is concinnitas. Beauty is the reasoned harmony of all the parts within a body, so that nothing may be added, taken away or altered but for the worse.
Where it appears in the book
In the chapters Renaissance and Baroque.
Nearby in the glossary
Commensurability · Compluvium · Composite · Compound pier · Conservatory · Corbel · Corbelled dome · Corbelled vault