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[[File:Della Pittura Alberti perspective pillars on grid.jpg|thumb| Alberti's diagram showing pillars in perspective on a grid in ''Della Pittura''.]]'''Leon Battista Alberti''' (Italian pronunciation: leˈom batˈtista alˈbɛrti; February 14, 1404 – April 25, 1472) was an Italian [[humanist]] [[author]], [[artist]], [[architect]], [[poet]], [[priest]], [[linguist]], [[philosopher]] and [[cryptographer]]; he epitomized the [[Renaissance Man]] (see [[Polymath]]).

== Biography ==

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 ''[[Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects]]''.

== See also ==

* [[Polymath]]
* [[Renaissance Man]]

== External links ==

* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leon_Battista_Alberti Leon Battista Alberti] @ Wikipedia

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