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Leon Battista Alberti
Leon Battista Alberti, self-portrait plaque, bronze, c. 1435; in the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
At the University of Bologna, Leon Battista Alberti completed his formal education by studying law. He specifically earned his doctorate in canon law in 1428, though he described the experience as an apparently joyless pursuit.1