Leon Battista Alberti

Leon Battista Alberti

Leon Battista Alberti (Italian: [leˈom batˈtist‿alˈbɛrti]; 14 February 1404 – 25 April 1472) was an Italian Renaissance humanist author, artist, architect, poet, priest, linguist, philosopher, and cryptographer; he epitomised the nature of those identified now as polymaths. He is considered the founder of Western cryptography, a claim he shares with Johannes Trithemius.Although he often is characterized exclusively as an architect, as James Beck has observed, "to single out one of Leon Battista's 'fields' over others as somehow functionally independent and self-sufficient is of no help at all to any effort to characterize Alberti's extensive explorations in the fine arts". Although Alberti is known mostly for being an artist, he was also a mathematician of many sorts and made great advances to this field during the fifteenth century. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Leon Battista Alberti has received more than 944,650 page views. His biography is available in 61 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 58 in 2019). Leon Battista Alberti is the 11th most popular architect, the 135th most popular biography from Italy (up from 140th in 2019) and the 5th most popular Italian Architect.

Leon Battista Alberti was a Renaissance architect, artist, and writer. He is most famous for his book on architecture, "De Re Aedificatoria."