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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 wrote his famous treatise on painting, On Painting (originally titled De pictura), in 1435.123