Age, Biography and Wiki
| Birth Day | February 14, 1404 |
| Birth Place | Genoa, Italy |
| Age | 615 YEARS OLD |
| Died On | Apr 20, 1472 (age 68) |
| Birth Sign | Aquarius |
Net worth: $1.4 Million (2024)
About
Best remembered for such architectural masterpieces as the Basilica of Santa Maria Novella and the Palazzo Rucellai (both in Florence, Italy), this fifteenth-century Italian Renaissance figure also wrote poems and artistic treatises and pursued a career in cryptography.
Before Fame
In his early thirties, after having studied law in Bologna and subsequently worked in the papal court in Rome, he began writing his first major work, Della Pittura. He later became an Architect for the Vatican.
Trivia
He penned De Pictura, a treatise on painting that discussed, for the first time, the science of artistic perspective.
Family Life
He was born in Genoa, Italy, as the illegitimate son of a Florentine nobleman.
Associated With
His lifetime overlapped with that of fellow Renaissance Man Leonardo da Vinci.
Some Leon Battista Alberti images
