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Leon Battista Alberti

1404–1472 · 15th century

Leon Battista Alberti was an Italian humanist, architect and writer, one of the founding figures of Renaissance art theory. His treatises On Painting and On the Art of Building set out the principles of perspective and of classical architecture. His buildings include the façade of Santa Maria Novella in Florence, the Tempio Malatestiano in Rimini and Sant'Andrea in Mantua.

Leon Battista Alberti
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Lordship of Rimini

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