Leon Battista Alberti

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Leone Battista Alberti (1404 – 1472) was an Italian humanist, author, musician, painter, sculptor, architect, poet, linguist, philosopher, and cryptographer. He is considered the Renaissance ideal.

Leon Battista Alberti regarded mathematics as the common ground of art and the sciences.

Leon Battista Alberti's Della pittura is the first modern treatise on the theory of painting. [1]

One of his main architectural writings is "De Re Aedificatoria" (1450).

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