The first division into major and minor arts dates back to Leon Battista Alberti's works ( De re aedificatoria, De statua, De pictura ), focusing the importance of intellectual skills of the artist rather than the manual skills ( even if in other forms of art there was a project behind ).

The first known description of an anemometer was given by Leon Battista Alberti around 1450.

In 1450, the Italian art architect Leon Battista Alberti invented the first mechanical anemometer ; in 1664 it was re-invented by Robert Hooke ( who is often mistakenly considered the inventor of the first anemometer ).

* 1404 – Leon Battista Alberti, Italian painter and philosopher ( d. 1472 )

In his Della Pictura of 1436, Leon Battista Alberti had argued that multi-figure history painting was the noblest form of art, as being the most difficult, which required mastery of all the others, because it was a visual form of history, and because it had the greatest potential to move the viewer.

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Leon Battista Alberti ( February 18, 1404 – April 20, 1472 ) was an Italian author, artist, architect, poet, priest, linguist, philosopher, cryptographer and general Renaissance humanist polymath.

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* Mark Jarzombek, “ The Structural Problematic of Leon Battista Alberti's De pictura ”, Renaissance Studies 4 / 3 ( September 1990 ): 273 – 285.

The emergence of these thinkers was attributed to the then rising notion in Renaissance Italy expressed by one of its most accomplished representatives, Leon Battista Alberti ( 1404 – 1472 ): that " a man can do all things if he will.

In the early 15th century, Italian architect Leon Battista Alberti wrote a treatise entitled De Re aedificatoria which theorized methods of building fortifications capable of withstanding the new guns.

* The Florentine polymath Leon Battista Alberti begins writing the treatise On Painting, in which he argues for the importance of mathematical perspective in the creation of three-dimensional vision on a two-dimensional plane.

* 1485 – Leon Battista Alberti's De Re Aedificatoria ( written 1443 – 52 and published posthumously ) becomes the first printed work on architecture.

* February 18 – Leon Battista Alberti, Italian painter, poet, and philosopher ( d. 1472 ))

The astounding list of painters and artists includes the names of Andrea Mantegna, Vicino da Ferrara, Giovanni Bellini, Leon Battista Alberti, Pisanello, Piero della Francesca, Battista Dossi, Dosso Dossi, Cosmé Tura, Francesco del Cossa and Titian.

The first well documented description of a polyalphabetic cipher was formulated by Leon Battista Alberti around 1467 and used a metal cipher disc to switch between cipher alphabets.

He had the famous Tempio Malatestiano rebuilt by Leon Battista Alberti.

* The 13th century cathedral ( San Francesco, best known as Tempio Malatestiano ) was originally in Gothic style, but was transformed by order of Sigismondo Pandolfo Malatesta according to the designs of Leon Battista Alberti and never completed.

Leon Battista Alberti wrote a savage and pessimistic Latin satiric dialogue, Momus, ( ca.

Classicism in architecture developed during the Italian Renaissance, notably in the writings and designs of Leon Battista Alberti and the work of Filippo Brunelleschi.

In the 15th century Leon Battista Alberti was important in theorizing many of the ideas for painting that came to a fully realised product with Raphael's School of Athens during the High Renaissance.

He owned books by influential Italian Renaissance architects such as Sebastiano Serlio and Leon Battista Alberti and his library contained books by French architects, sculptors, illustrators and architectural theorists such as Jean Cotelle, Philibert de l ' Orme, Abraham Bosse, Jean Bullant, Salomon de Caus, Roland Fréart de Chambray, Hugues Sambin, Antoine Desgodetz, and John James's translation of Claude Perrault's Treatise of the Five Orders.

In discussing Leon Battista Alberti's use of pilasters, which Alberti reintroduced into wall-architecture, Rudolf Wittkower wrote, " The pilaster is the logical transformation of the column for the decoration of a wall.

De Re Aedificatoria ( 1452, Ten Books of Architecture ), by Leon Battista Alberti ( 1404 – 1472 ), patterned after the De architectura by the Roman architect and engineer Vitruvius, emblema are related to Egyptian hieroglyphics and are considered as being the lost universal language.

* Leon Battista Alberti ( Italian, 1404 – 1472 ) Genovese architect

* 1993 – Leon Thomas III, American actor and singer

* 1924 – Leon Uris, American novelist ( d. 2003 )

* Alfonso of Leon, Lord of Molina ( 1203 – 1272 ).

* Alfonso III of Leon ( 866 – 914 ) surnamed " the Great "

* Alfonso IV of Leon ( 924 – 931 )

* 1942 – Leon Russell, American pianist and guitarist

* 1952 – Leon Wilkeson, American bass player ( Lynyrd Skynyrd ) ( d. 2001 )

* 1979 – Leon Lopez, English actor and singer

* 2001 – Leon Sullivan, African-American civil rights leader and pastor ( b. 1922 )

The estate was sold on 4 June 1883 to Sir Herbert Samuel Leon ( 1850 – 1926 ), a financier and Liberal MP.

It consisted of LF Matthews (. 291 14 – 82 101 runs 17 SB ), C Jody Davis (. 256 19 – 94 ), RF Keith Moreland (. 279 16 – 80 ), SS Larry Bowa (. 223 10 SB ), 1B Leon " Bull " Durham (. 279 23 – 96 16SB ), CF Dernier (. 278 45 SB ), 3B Ron Cey (. 240 25 – 97 ), Closer Lee Smith ( 9 – 7 3. 65 33 saves ) and 1984 NL MVP and Ryne Sandberg (. 314 19 – 84 114 runs, 19 triples, 32 SB ).

* 1869 – Leon Marchlewski, Polish chemist ( d. 1946 )

* 1956 – Tony Leon, South African politician and Ambassador to Argentina

* 1966 – Leon Lai, Hong Kong Cantonese singer / actor

* 1988 – Leon Jackson, Scottish singer

* 1852 – Daniel De Leon, South American socialist ( d. 1914 )

* 1914 – Ramón Mercader, Spanish assassin of Leon Trotsky ( d. 1978 )

* 1964 – Gabonese president Leon M ' ba is toppled by a coup and his rival, Jean-Hilaire Aubame, is installed in his place.

* 1930 – Leon Neil Cooper, American physicist, Nobel laureate