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Which Renaissance building projects did Leon Battista Alberti advise Pope Nicholas V about in Rome?
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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 served as an architectural adviser to Pope Nicholas V, a collaboration that launched the first major building projects of the Renaissance in Rome. Specifically, their work together initiated the reconstruction of St. Peterās Basilica and the Vatican Palace.1
Regarding the Vatican Palace, Albertiāalong with architect Bernardo Rossellinoāassisted the Pope in rebuilding the north and west walls of the palace of Nicholas III and in the founding of the Vatican Apostolic Library.2