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Leon Battista Alberti
Italian architect and writer (1404-1472)
Details
- Instance of
- human
- Born
- 14 February 1404, 1404
- Died
- 25 April 1472, 1472, 3 April 1472
- Place of birth
- Genoa
- Place of death
- Rome
- Sex or gender
- male
- Family name
- Alberti
- Movement
- Italian Renaissance
- Field of work
- painting, art theory, architecture, humanism, art of sculpture, encryption, ecclesiastical law, historic building, Renaissance
- Occupation
- philosopher, linguist, cryptographer, poet, architect, architectural theoretician, music theorist, musicologist, sculptor, writer, medalist, painter
- Citizenship
- Republic of Genoa
- Native language
- Italian
- Religion
- Catholic Church
- artist files at
- Frick Art Research Library, National Gallery of Art Library
- birth name
- Leon Battista degli Alberti
- described by source
- Teutsche Academie der Edlen Bau- Bild- und Mahlerey-Künste, Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects, Schilder-boeck, Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia, Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947), Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, BEIC Digital Library, Library of the World's Best Literature, Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition (1885–1890), Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition, Leon Battista Alberti e l'architettura romana
- different from
- Gio. Battista Alberti
- educated at
- University of Bologna
- end of work period
- 1472
- has works in the collection
- National Gallery of Art, Nationalmuseum, BnF Museum, Swedish Centre for Architecture and Design
- instrument
- organ
- languages spoken, written or signed
- Italian, renaissance Latin, Latin
- name
- Leon. Batista Alberti, Leon Battista Alberti, Leon-Battista Alberti, Léon Battista Alberti
- name in native language
- Leon Battista Alberti
- notable work
- Basilica of Sant'Andrea, San Sebastiano, De pictura, Apologi centum, Tempio Malatestiano, De re aedificatoria, Basilica of Santa Maria Novella, Palazzo Rucellai, De statua, The Fly
- place of burial
- Basilica of Santa Croce
- start of work period
- 1419
- student of
- Gasparinus de Bergamo
- topic's main category
- Category:Leon Battista Alberti
- writing language
- Italian, renaissance Latin
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