Leone Battista Alberti
Leon Battista Alberti (February 18, 1404 – April 25, 1472) was an Italian author, artist, architect, poet, priest, linguist, philosopher, and cryptographer, and general Renaissance humanist polymath. In Italy, this first name is usually spelled "Leone", but Alberti is known as Leon. Alberti's life was described in Giorgio Vasari's Vite. Alberti is often seen as a model of the Renaissance "universal man“.- He was born in Genoa, because the Albertis had been expelled from their native city, Florence. When he was a child the family moved to Venice. In 1428 Leon visited Florence at first time.
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| Late statue of Leon Battista Alberti. Courtyard of the Uffizi Gallery, Florence | |
| Born | 18 February 1404 Genoa, Italy |
| Died | 25 April 1472 (aged 68) Rome |
| Nationality | Italian |
| Field | Architecture, Linguistics, Poetry |
| Movement | Italian Renaissance |
| Works | Tempio Malatestiano, Palazzo Rucellai, Santa Maria Novella |
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A portrait of Alberti by Filippino Lippi is thought to exist in the Brancacci Chapel, as part of Lippi's completion of the Masaccio painting, the Raising of the Son of Theophilus and St. Peter Enthroned
Palazzo Rucellai (Florence)
English title page of the first edition of Giacomo Leoni's translation of Alberti's De Re Aedificatoria (1452) - the book is bilingual, with the Italian version being printed on the left and the English version printed on the right
Piazza Pio II in Pienza, looking toward the Palazzo Piccolomini
Detail of the façade of Tempio Malatestiano
The upper storey of Santa Maria Novella
One of the giant scrolls at Santa Maria Novella
A window of the Rucellai Palace
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