Leon Battista Alberti

Also known as

Leon Battista AlbertiLeone Battista AlbertiLeon Batti AlbertiAlberti, Leon Battista, 1404-1472.Léon-Battista AlbertiLeon Battista ALBERTIleon battista albertiAlberti, Leon BattistaLeon Battista 1404-1472 de AlbertiLeon Battista 1404-1472 AlbertiLEON BATTISTA ALBERTI

Italian author, artist, architect, poet, priest, linguist, philosopher, cryptographer and general Renaissance humanist polymath. Although he is often characterized as an "architect" exclusively, 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." Alberti's life was described in Giorgio Vasari's *Vite de' più eccellenti pittori, scultori, e architettori* or 'Lives of the most excellent painters, sculptors and architects'. *(Source: Wikipedia)*

Born 1404-02-14

Died 1472-04-25

Identifiers

  • Open LibraryOL146530A
  • VIAF29559625
  • WikidataQ182046
  • ISNI0000000120958329
  • Project Gutenberg49433

Top Subjects

  • Early works to 1800 (52)
  • Architecture (31)
  • Painting (24)
  • Sculpture (13)
  • Italy (10)
  • Leon Battista Alberti (1404-1472) (8)
  • Architecture -- Early works to 1800 (7)

Books by Leon Battista Alberti

Total count: 242