Beauty – it must be aesthetic. According to Vitruvius, the architect must strive to fulfill each of these three attributes as best as possible. Leon Battista Alberti, who developed Vitruvius's ideas in his treatise De Re Aedificatoria, saw beauty primarily as a matter of proportion, although ornament also played a role. For Alberti, the rules of proportion were those which governed the idealized human figure, the golden mean. The most important aspect of beauty was therefore an inherent part of an object, rather than something superficially applied, and was based on universal and recognizable principles. truths. The notion of style in the arts only developed in the 16th century, with the writings of Vasari:[10] in the 18th century, his Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors and Architects had been translated into Italian, French, Spanish . , and in English.The Houses of Parliament in London, seen across the river, is a large Victorian Gothic building with two large towers and numerous pinnacles. The Houses of Parliament, Westminster, planned by Charles Barry, with interiors and details by AWN.