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Leon Battista Alberti (1401-72) was an architect and renowned writer and theorist whose De Re Aedificatoria was the first architectural textbook of the Renaissance.
He was especially keen on recycling classic orders and working with the proportions that linked architectural geometry and musical harmony.
If his friend Brunelleschi brought innovation and a crafted aesthetic to founding Renaissance architecture, Alberti defined the movement's classicism and theoretical base.
In Florence, he built the prototypical Renaissance palace (Palazzo Rucellai), and the mathematically precise facade of Santa Maria Novella.
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