Leon Battista Alberti was one of the most important humanist scholars of the Italian Renaissance. Leon Battista Alberti was an outstanding polymath of the fifteenth century alongside Piero della Francesca and before Leonardo da Vinci.

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We painters said Alberti in On Painting but as a painter or sculptor Alberti was a dilettante. SantAndrea Mantua. Life of Leon Battista Alberti. While his contributions to architecture and the visual arts are well known and available in good English editions and much of his literary and social writings are also available in English his mathematical works are not well represented in . In this volume Rocco Sinisgalli. Introduction. On painting Leon Battista Alberti translated by Cecil Grayson with an introduction and notes by Martin Kemp. Leon Battista Alberti was one of the most important humanist scholars of the Italian Renaissance. Active in midfifteenthcentury Florence he was an architect theorist and author of texts on perspective and painting. Alberti Façade of Santa Maria Novella Florence. On Painting Leon Battista Alberti John R.