Leon Battista Alberti
Leon Battista Alberti (; 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 Western cryptography, a claim he shares with Johannes Trithemius.He is often considered primarily an architect. However, as James Beck has observed, "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: he made significant contributions to this field. Among the most famous buildings he designed are the churches of San Sebastiano (1460) and Sant'Andrea (1472), both in Mantua.
Alberti's life was told in Giorgio Vasari's ''Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects''. Provided by Wikipedia
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by Alberti, Leon Battista, 1404-1472
Published 1991
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by Alberti, Leon Battista, 1404-1472
Published 1955
Published 1955
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by Alberti, Leon Battista, 1404-1472
Published 2003
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by Alberti, Leon Battista, 1404-1472
Published 2011
Published 2011
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by Alberti, Leon Battista, 1404-1472
Published 1988
Published 1988
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by Alberti, Leon Battista, 1404-1472
Published 1986
Published 1986
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by Alberti, Leon Battista, 1404-1472
Published 1966
Published 1966
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by Alberti, Leon Battista, 1404-1472
Published 1972
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by Alberti, Leon Battista, 1404-1472
Published 1969
Published 1969
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by Alberti, Leon Battista, 1404-1472
Published 1966
Published 1966
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by Alberti, Leon Battista, 1404-1472
Published 1955
Published 1955
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by Alberti, Leon Battista, 1404-1472
Published 1970
Published 1970
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by Alberti, Leon Battista, 1404-1472
Published 1972
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by Alberti, Leon Battista, 1404-1472
Published 1956
Published 1956
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by Alberti, Leon Battista, 1404-1472
Published 1550
Published 1550
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by Alberti, Leon Battista, 1404-1472
Published 1966
Published 1966
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by Alberti, Leon Battista, 1404-1472
Published 1946
Published 1946
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by Alberti, Leon Battista, 1404-1472
Published 1966
Published 1966
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by Alberti, Leon Battista, 1404-1472
Published 1971
Published 1971
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by Alberti, Leon Battista, 1404-1472
Published 1957
Published 1957
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