Leon Battista Alberti (1404 - 1472)

Italian humanist author, artist, architect, poet, priest, linguist, philosopher and cryptographer


Books on Leon Battista Alberti

Articles on Leon Battista Alberti
Caspar Pearson, Philosophy Defeated: Truth and Vision in Leon Battista Alberti's Momus, in Oxford Art Journal, 34, 2011 pp. 1-12  read online
 
Jack M. Greenstein, On Alberti's "Sign": Vision and Composition in Quattrocento Painting, in Art Bulletin, 79, 1997 pp. 669-698
 
Laurie Schneider, Leon Battista Alberti: Some Biographical Implications of the Winged Eye, in Art Bulletin, 72, 1990 pp. 261-270
 
Phyllis Williams Lehmann, Alberti and Antiquity: Additional Observations, in Art Bulletin, 70, 1988 pp. 388-400  read online
 
Judy Green and Paul S. Green, Alberti's Perspective: A Mathematical Comment, in Art Bulletin, 69, 1987 pp. 641-645
 

Born:   14 February 1404
   Genoa, Italy
Died:   20 April 1472
   Rome, Italy
ULAN:   500002025
VIAF:   29559625