Leon Battista Alberti (feb 14, 1404 – apr 25, 1472)
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Leon Battista Alberti was an Italian Renaissance humanist author, artist, architect, poet, priest, linguist, philosopher, and cryptographer.Although he is often characterized exclusively as an architect. Although Alberti is known mostly for being an artist, he was also a mathematician of many sorts and made great advances to this field during the 15th century. His two most important buildings are the churches of S. Sebastiano (1460) and S. Andrea, both in Mantua
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feb 14, 1404
apr 25, 1472
~ 68 years