Leon Battista Alberti - age: 68

Leon Battista Alberti

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ABOUT

Best remembered for such architectural masterpieces as the Basilica of Santa Maria Novella and the Palazzo Rucellai (both in Florence, Italy), this fifteenth-century Italian Renaissance figure also wrote poems and artistic treatises and pursued a career in cryptography.He penned De Pictura, a treatise on painting that discussed, for the first time, the science of artistic perspective.His lifetime overlapped with that of fellow Renaissance Man Leonardo da Vinci.

BEFORE FAME

In his early thirties, after having studied law in Bologna and subsequently worked in the papal court in Rome, he began writing his first major work, Della Pittura. He later became an architect for the Vatican.

PERSONAL LIFE

He was born in Genoa, Italy, as the illegitimate son of a Florentine nobleman.

Famous Quotes
The city is like a great house, and the house in its turn a small city.

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Architect Leon Battista Alberti were born on Tuesday, in a leap year, birthstone is Amethyst, the seaon was Winter in the Chinese year of , it is 44 days until Leon Battista Alberti next birthday.

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