Leon Battista Alberti

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Renaissance architect architect art theorist human humanist writer

Leon Battista Alberti was a 15th-century Italian humanist, architect, and theorist whose writings and designs helped define the principles of Renaissance art and architecture.

Aliases (2)

Alberti ×1
Leon Battista ×1

Statements (49)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Renaissance architect → architect → art theorist → human → humanist → writer →
birthDate	1404-02-14 →
birthPlace	Genoa →
citizenship	Republic of Florence →
deathDate	1472-04-25 →
deathPlace	Rome →
designed	Facade of Santa Maria Novella, Florence → Palazzo Rucellai, Florence → Sant’Andrea, Mantua → Tempio Malatestiano, Rimini →
educatedAt	University of Bologna →
era	Early Renaissance →
familyName	Alberti →
fieldOfWork	architecture → art theory → cryptography → perspective →
genre	dialogue → treatise →
givenName	Leon Battista →
influenced	Renaissance architecture → Renaissance art theory → architectural treatise tradition →
influencedBy	Vitruvius → classical antiquity →
knownFor	Alberti cipher disk → formulation of linear perspective in painting → theoretical foundations of Renaissance architecture →
languageOfWorkOrName	Italian → Latin →
movement	Italian Renaissance →
name	Leon Battista Alberti →
nationality	Italian →
notableWork	De pictura → De re aedificatoria → De statua → Della famiglia →
occupation	architect → art theorist → author → cryptographer → humanist → philosopher →
religion	Roman Catholicism →

Referenced by (10)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Donato Bramante → Piero della Francesca →	influencedBy
Palazzo Rucellai →	architect
Palazzo Rucellai →	designer
Palazzo Rucellai →	facadeDesigner
Leon Battista Alberti ("Alberti") →	familyName
Leon Battista Alberti ("Leon Battista") →	givenName
Filippo Brunelleschi →	influenced
Leon Battista Alberti →	name
Renaissance architecture →	notableArchitect