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Name: Leon Battista Alberti
Birth Date: February 14, 1404
Death Date: April, 1472
Place of Birth: Genoa, Italy
Place of Death: Rome, Italy
Nationality: Italian
Gender: Male
Occupations: architect, writer, humanist

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Biography of Leon Battista Alberti
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Leon Battista Alberti (1404-1472) was an Italian writer, humanist, and architect. Through his theoretical writings on painting, sculpture, and architecture, he raised them from the level of the mechanical arts to that of the liberal arts. Leon Battista...
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Leon Battista Alberti was born in Vienna on February 18, 1404. Alberti was something of a protypical Renaissance Man, having achieved success as an architect, painter, musician, and mathematician. In architecture, Alberti is remembered for designing...


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Leone Battista Alberti ( 14 February 1404 - 25 April , 1472 ) was an Italian writer, architect and mathematician. Unsourced Men can do all things if they will. When I investigate and when I discover that the forces of the heavens and the planets are...


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1404-1472 Italian Architect and Writer Like many key figures in the history of mathematics during the Middle Ages, Leon Battista Alberti was not a professional mathematician, and the advances he made in that discipline were in service to...
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1404-1472 Italian architect and mathematician whose Della Pittura (1435), which contains the first general account of the laws of perspective, initiated the classical Renaissance style in art. Known as the Florentine Vitruvius, his De re aedificatoria...
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1404-1472 Italian architect and writer who, in addition to his work in mathematics, wrote on geology. In about 1450 Alberti discussed the erosive effect of the atmosphere, and in so doing served as a forerunner for the modern science of hydrogeology....
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An Italian humanist, Alberti is often seen as a model of the Renaissance "universal man." He was born in Genoa, one of two illegitimate sons of a wealthy Florentine merchant, Lorenzo Alberti. Leon's mother, Bianca Fieschi, was a Bolognese widow who died...


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Renaissance Quarterly
Leon Battista Alberti at the Millennium. (Review Essay).(Book Review)
09/22/2002: 4,267 words, approx. 14 pages
Leon Battista Alberti: Congres International, Paris, 10-15 avril 1995. Actes edites par Francesco Furlan. 2 vols. Paris: J. Vrin; Turin: Nino Aragno Editore, 2000. 1123 PP. + 108 plates. $95. ISBN: 2-7116-4499-2. Leon Battista Alberti. Descriptio urbis Romae. Edition critique, traduction et...
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The Art Bulletin
Leon Battista Alberti: Master Builder of the Italian Renaissance.(Book Review)
06/01/2003: 5,346 words, approx. 18 pages
ANTHONY GRAFTON New York: Hill and Wang, 2000. 415 pp.; 1 color ill,, 27 b/w. $35.00 A fascination with Leon Battista Alberti has become a characteristic feature of modern Renaissance scholarship. The very periodization structure on which our histories are based...
 


 

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