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Leon Battista Alberti

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Noun1.Leon Battista Alberti - Italian architect and painterLeon Battista Alberti - Italian architect and painter; pioneering theoretician of Renaissance architecture (1404-1472)


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The first repair and enlargement intervention was ordered in the middle of the 15th century by pope Niccolo V, who entrusted Leon Battista Alberti and his helper Bernardo Rossellino.
Among the well-known artists and architects whose works they commissioned are Leon Battista Alberti, Andrea Mantegna, Correggio, Titian, and Giulio Romano.
The cipher disk was invented by Leon Battista Alberti in the 15th century.
 
 
 
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