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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.
Leon Battista Alberti completed his monumental theoretical work, De re aedificatoria (Ten Books on Architecture), in 1452, when he dedicated it to Pope Nicholas V. While the work was written during the middle of the 15th century, it was subsequently published in 1485.12