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 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.
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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Published: 1975
Superior document: Alberti Index de re aedificatoria ; Florenz 1485 ; index verborum 1
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Published: 1976
Superior document: Alberti Index de re aedificatoria ; Florenz 1485 ; index verborum 2
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Published: 2003
Superior document: The I Tatti Renaissance library 8
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Published: 1979
Superior document: Alberti Index de re aedificatoria ; Florenz 1485 ; index verborum 3
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Published: 1975
Superior document: Alberti Index de re aedificatoria ; Florenz 1485 ; index verborum 4
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Published: 1964
Superior document: Enthalten in Rinascimento, rivista dell'Istituto Nazionale di Studi sul Rinascimento / Istituto Nazionale di Studi sul Rinascimento Firenze, 1964 2. Ser. 4 (1964), S. 125 - 258
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Published: 2011.
Superior document: Æsthetica