Leon Battista Alberti
1404-1472
architect
Alberti was a mathematician and architect. His statue joins those
of other, perhaps better know people, in the Portico because of
his influential writing on the arts and his work as an architect.
He is the architect who designed the upper part of the facade of
Santa Maria Novella.
Related Websites
School
of Mathmatics and Statistics
University of Saint Andrews, Scotland
Leone Battista Alberti
The
Lives of the Artists:
Life of Alberti
Translations
of Alberti’s book “Della pittura” on painting
(first modern work on painting)
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