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    Leon Battista Alberti was an Italian Renaissance polymath born in Genoa, Italy in 1404. He was self-taught and contributed greatly to art, architecture, and cryptography through his many written works on these subjects and original designs for buildings. His greatest work is considered to be the Roman aqueduct Aqua Vergine, which combined both function and beauty.

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    Leon Battista Alberti was an Italian Renaissance polymath born in Genoa, Italy in 1404. He was self-taught and contributed greatly to art, architecture, and cryptography through his many written works on these subjects and original designs for buildings. His greatest work is considered to be the Roman aqueduct Aqua Vergine, which combined both function and beauty.

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    Leon Battista Alberti was an Italian Renaissance polymath born in Genoa, Italy in 1404. He was self-taught and contributed greatly to art, architecture, and cryptography through his many written works on these subjects and original designs for buildings. His greatest work is considered to be the Roman aqueduct Aqua Vergine, which combined both function and beauty.

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    Official Resume

    Name: Leon Battista Alberti Biographical Information: Place/Date of Birth: Genoa, Italy, 1404 n

    Lineage: Illegitimate son of Lorenzo Alberti & Bianca Fieschi n Schooling: Gasparino Barzizza in Padua (1414-1418), University of Bologna n Apprenticeships: None Self learned n

    Former Employers/Patrons: Sigismondo Pandolfo Malatesta, the

    Rucellai family, Pope Nicholas V, Pope Pius II n


    Guild Memberships: None

    Contributions to the Art World: Istoria (theory of harmony),

    Books (including De Pictura, De Statua, De Re Aedificatoria), the comedy Philodoxius, invented the polyalphabetic cipher (for the advancement of cryptography), Sant Andrea in Mantua (1471), Santa Maria Novella in n Firenze (1458), and the Tempio Malatestiano in Rimini (1450-1468) n
    Greatest Work: The Roman Aquaduct (Acqua Vergine)

    because it was a combination of functionality and beauty.

    n n

    Katie Thomas & Ryan Kennedy 09/27/09 Block: 4 Alberti Rsum

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