Medallion portrait of Leon Batista.
Leon Batista Alberti (1404-72), an Italian, humanist, artist, mathematician, architect. He is often seen as a model of the Renaissance universal man. Alberti claimed that he “excelled in all bodily exercises; could, with feet tied, leap over a standing man; could in the great cathedral, throw a coin far up to ring against the vault; amuse himself by taming wild horses and climbing mountains.”
