Leon Battista Alberti
Also known as Leon Batista Alberti, L. B. Alberti, Leo Baptista Alberti, Leon Battista degli Alberti, Lepidus, Leo-Battista degli Alberti, Leone Battista Alberti
Italian architect and writer (1404-1472)
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Leon Battista Alberti was an Italian architect and writer who lived from 1404 to 1472 and made important contributions to Renaissance architecture and thought. He is historically significant because his ideas and designs helped shape how buildings were conceived and constructed during a transformative period in European history.
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- 14 February 1404
- Died
- 25 April 1472
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Leon Battista Alberti ( Italian: [leombatˈtista alˈbɛɾti]; 14 February 1404 – 25 April 1472) was an Italian Renaissance humanist author, artist, architect, poet, priest, linguist, philosopher, and cryptographer; he epitomised the nature of those identified now as polymaths. He is considered the founder of European cryptography, a claim he shares with Johannes Trithemius.
He is often considered primarily an architect. However, according to James Beck, "to single out one of Leon Battista's 'fields' over others as somehow functionally independent and self-sufficient is of no help at all to any effort to characterize Alberti's extensive explorations in the fine arts". Although Alberti is known mostly as an artist, he was also a mathematician and made significant contributions to that field. Among the most famous buildings he designed are the churches of San Sebastiano (1460) and Sant'Andrea (1472), both in Mantua.
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