Leone Battista Alberti facts for kids

Quick facts for kids Leon Battista Alberti
Late statue of Leon Battista Alberti. Courtyard of the Uffizi Gallery, Florence
Nationality	Italian
Known for	Architecture, Linguistics, Poetry
Notable work	Tempio Malatestiano, Palazzo Rucellai, Santa Maria Novella
Movement	Italian Renaissance

Leon Battista Alberti (February 18, 1404 – April 25, 1472) was an Italian author, artist, architect, poet, priest, linguist, philosopher, and cryptographer, and general Renaissance humanist polymath. In Italy, this first name is usually spelled "Leone", but Alberti is known as Leon. Alberti's life was described in Giorgio Vasari's Vite. Alberti is often seen as a model of the Renaissance "universal man“.- He was born in Genoa, because the Albertis had been expelled from their native city, Florence.  When he was a child the family moved to Venice. In 1428 Leon visited Florence at first time.

Images for kids

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  A portrait of Alberti by Filippino Lippi is thought to exist in the Brancacci Chapel, as part of Lippi's completion of the Masaccio painting, the Raising of the Son of Theophilus and St. Peter Enthroned

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  Palazzo Rucellai

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  Piazza Pio II in Pienza, looking toward the Palazzo Piccolomini

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  Detail of the facade of Tempio Malatestiano

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  The upper storey of Santa Maria Novella

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  One of the giant scrolls at Santa Maria Novella

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  A window of the Rucellai Palace

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In Spanish: Leon Battista Alberti para niños