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Leon Battista Alberti was also known as:
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- "I certainly consider a great appreciation of painting to be the best indication of a most perfect mind."
About Leon Battista Alberti:
Humanist philosopher, writer, Renaissance architect and artistic theorist, Leon Battista Alberti is considered by many scholars to be the quintessential Renaissance "universal man" of learning. In addition to painting, designing buildings, and writing scientific, artistic and philosophical treatises, Leon Battista Alberti wrote the first book on Italian grammar and a groundbreaking work on cryptography. He is credited with inventing the cypher wheel, and it was said that from a standing position, with his feet together, Leon Battista Alberti could jump over a man's head.
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Biography of Leon Battista Alberti
Leon Battista Alberti in Print
Statue of Leon Battista Alberti
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