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Leon Battista Alberti

Type Figure Region Italy Time 1404–1472 Also known as Leon Battista Alberti、L.B. Alberti

Leon Battista Alberti (1404–1472) was an Italian Renaissance humanist, architect, and theorist, hailed as the model of the 'Renaissance man.…

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  1. 1404–1430Genoa · GenoaBorn into a Florentine exiled noble family, he received training in classical languages and mathematics in Venice, Padua, and elsewhere, and by the 1430s had already risen to prominence in ecclesiastical and courtly circles.
  2. 1431–1440Rome · RomeIn the 1430s he served as a papal secretary in Rome, writing Latin works and studying classical architectural ruins, laying the theoretical and fieldwork foundations for his later On Painting and On the Ten Books of Architecture.
  3. 1440–1472Florence · FlorenceFrom the 1440s he directed projects in Florence and elsewhere, including the tomb of Sigismondo Malatesta and the facade of the Palazzo Rucellai; in 1450 he published On Painting, systematizing perspective; in his later years he completed On the Ten Books of Architecture and other influential Renaissance treatises.

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