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See also:ALBERTI, LEONE BATTISTA (1404–1472) , See also:Italian painter, poet, philosopher, musician and architect, was See also:born in See also:Venice on the 18th of See also:February 1404. He was so skilled in Latin See also:verse that a See also:comedy he wrote in his twentieth See also:year, entitled Philodoxius, deceived the younger Aldus, who edited and published it as the genuine See also:work of See also:Lepidus. In See also:music he was reputed dne of the first organists of'the See also:age. He held the appointmetit of See also:canon in the See also:metropolitan See also:- CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
church of See also:Florence, and thus had leisure 'to devote himself to his favourite See also:art. He is generally regarded as one of- the restorers of the See also:ancient See also:style of See also:architecture. At See also:Rome he was employed by See also:Pope See also:Nicholas V. in the restoration of the papal See also:palace and of the See also:foundation of Acqua Vergine; and in the ornamentation of the magnificent See also:fountain of Trevi. At See also:Mantua he designed the. church of Sant' See also:Andrea and at See also:Rimini the celebrated church- of See also:San See also:Francesco; which is generally esteemed his finest work. On a See also:commission from Rucellai he designed the See also:principal See also:facade of the church of See also:Santa Maria Novella in Florence, as well as the See also:family palace in the Via della Scala, now known as the Palazzo See also:Strozzi. Alberti wrote See also:works on See also:sculpture, Della Statua, and on See also:painting, De Pictura, which are highly esteemed; but his most celebrated See also:treatise is that on architecture, De Re Aedificaioria, which has been translated into Italian, See also:French, See also:Spanish and See also:English: Alberti died at Rome in the See also:April of 1472.
See Passerini, Gli Alberti di Firenze (1869, 1870) ; See also:Mancini, Vita di Alberti (Firenze, 1882) ; V. See also:Hoffmann, Studien zu See also:Leon Battista Alberti's zehn Bi chern: De Re Aedificatoria (See also:Frankenberg, 1883).
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