Definition of Leon Battista Alberti

1. Noun. Italian architect and painter; pioneering theoretician of Renaissance architecture (1404-1472).

Exact synonyms: Alberti
Generic synonyms: Architect, Designer, Painter

Lexicographical Neighbors of Leon Battista Alberti

Leo Esaki
Leo I
Leo III
Leo Minor
Leo Szilard
Leo Tolstoy
Leo X
Leo the Great
Leo the Lion
Leodensian
Leodensians
Leodiensian
Leodiensians
Leomania
Leon
Leon Battista Alberti (current term)
Leon Trotsky
Leona
Leonard
Leonard Bernstein
Leonard Bloomfield
Leonard Constant Lambert
Leonard Marx
Leonardesque
Leonardo
Leonardo Da Vinci
Leonardo number
Leonberg
Leonese
Leonhard Euler

Literary usage of Leon Battista Alberti

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Guilds of Florence by Edgcumbe Staley (1906)
"Still it is obvious, from a careful study of the writings of such men as Leonardo da Vinci, Leon Battista Alberti, and Francesco Guicciardini and many ..."

2. A Literary Source-book of the Italian Renaissance by Merrick Whitcomb (1898)
"Leon Battista Alberti. Place and time of birth undetermined. Thought to be Venice, in 1404. Alberti's talents covered a wide range of subjects. ..."

3. Art in Northern Italy by Corrado Ricci (1911)
"Matteo de' Pasti, in Ran. btbl. dell'arte Hal., 1908-9-10; G. Mancini. Leon Battista Albertl, Florence, 1882; E. Londi. Leon Battista Alberti ..."

4. Italy, Past and Present by Antonio Carlo Napoleone] [Gallenga (1848)
"Charged by the Duke of Milan with the direction of those hydraulic works by which the agri- * Leon Battista Alberti, born towards AD 1400; died, 1472. ..."

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