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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 received his doctorate in canon law in 1428. He completed this degree at the University of Bologna following a difficult seven-year period of study marked by the death of his father and the loss of his inheritance.1