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HISTORY OF ART
Leon Battista Alberti
Alberti is an anomaly: he is a puzzling figure in the Renaissance period, because he left very few works behind. We have no paintings, only one sculpture by him and otherwise only architecture work has been left: but we know he was active in all forms of art. He was born in1404 and died in 1472 living through the creative period of the Renaissance. He arrives in Florence in 1434: the most important and creative time of the Renaissance. He was a thinker and a theoretician.
In 1435 his book:" On Painting" is published. It's the most important book on painting ever written because it's about what the Renaissance artist were doing at that time. He was a Florentine but his family had lived in exile in Genoa until 1434. He had a very good education in Padua and Bologna. In 1430 the Alberti family was allowed back to Florence.
He had never been in Florence before his 30's: here he sees the Cathedral Dome by Brunelleschi, the most "talked about" work......

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