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Brief about Leon Battista Alberti: By info that we know Leon Battista Alberti was born at 1970-01-01. And also Leon Battista Alberti is Italian Architect.

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When I investigate and when I discover that the forces of the heavens and the planets are within ourselves, then truly I seem to be living among the gods.

Tags: Living, Ourselves, Science

A man can do all things if he but wills them.

Tags: Wills

Beauty: the adjustment of all parts proportionately so that one cannot add or subtract or change without impairing the harmony of the whole.

Tags: Beauty, Cannot, Change

Men can do all things if they will.

Tags: Men

Painting contains a divine force which... makes the dead seem almost alive.

Tags: Alive, Dead, Makes

The city is like a great house, and the house in its turn a small city.

Tags: Great, House, Small

We must always take from nature what we paint and always choose the most beautiful things.

Tags: Beautiful, Choose, Nature

I will never tire of recommending the custom, practiced by the best architects, of preparing not only drawings and sketches, but also models of wood or any other material. These... enable us to examine... the work as a whole... and, before continuing any further, to estimate the likely trouble and expense.

Tags: Best, Whole, Work
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