Renaissance and history in architecture Filippo Brunelleschi: He was one of the founding fathers of the Renaissance. He is generally well known for developing a technique for linear perspective in art and for building the dome of the Florence Cathedral. Leon Battista Alberti was an Italian humanist author, artist, architect, poet, priest, linguist, philosopher and cryptographer he epitomised the Renaissance Man the Villa Medici in Fiesole might owe its design to Alberti Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino: was architect of the High Renaissance. His work is admired for its clarity of form, ease of composition, and visual achievement of the Neoplatonic ideal of human grandeur.Raphael was named architect of the new St Peter's Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni : was an Italian sculptor, painter, architect, and poet of the High Renaissance born in the Republic of Florence, In 1546, Michelangelo was appointed architect of St. Peter's Basilica, Rome.