Great Italian architect: 15th century

Usage examples of alberti.

Leon Battista Alberti, the illegitimate offspring of a powerful and wealthy Florentine family, who would soon become the greatest theorist and popularizer of the new art.

Born in Genoa in 1404, where his family lived in exile from their native Florence, Alberti received the finest education available in northern Italy, studying first at the gymnasium of Padua and then receiving a doctorate in civil and canon law at the University of Bologna.

Alberti figure might be Donatello, but the man bears little resemblance to other suggested portraits of Donatello, while the resemblance to a known self-portrait of Alberti is quite strong.

Rome in 1423, Alberti was apparently still studying in Bologna, while the ill-fated Roman trip in 1428 would have given the men a chance to meet, but Masaccio never returned.

The following year, the year of the great consecration ceremony and the closing of the dome, Alberti offered an Italian version dedicated to Filippo Brunelleschi, who always wrote and spoke in the vernacular himself.

Whether or not there was a prior visit to Florence, Alberti and Lorenzo probably met in Rome around 1429, when Lorenzo was beginning work on his new set of doors while Alberti was beginning to formulate his theory of pictorial representation.

Brunelleschi, though it was built on and improved by Leon Battista Alberti and Piero della Francesca.

This was a major intellectual issue of the day in the fifteenth century and a central topic in the writings of, for example, Alberti, Antonio Filarete and Leonardo.

Leon Battista Alberti near the beginning of the succinct but suggestive work that earned him the title of Father of Western Cryptology.

Born in 1404, the illegitimate but favored son of a family of rich Florentine merchants, Alberti enjoyed extraordinary intellectual and athletic aptitudes.

So Alberti promised that he would do some work on it so that Dato would see that it was profitable to have asked him, and the result was the essay that he wrote in 1466 or early 1467, when he was 62 or 63.

This contradicts the convention of this book, and is being used in the section on Alberti only to avoid altering his text.

There are as many of these alphabets as there are positions of his disk, and this multiplicity means that Alberti here devised the first polyalphabetic cipher.

This constitutes an excellent form of enciphered code, and just how precocious Alberti was may be seen by the fact that the major powers of the earth did not begin to encipher their code messages until 400 years later, near the end of the 19th century, and even then their systems were much simpler than this.

You are returned -- or I would ask you to tell me how the Villa Alberti wears, and if the fig-tree behind the house is green and strong yet.