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ARTISTS > architect, philospher, poet > Leon Battista Alberti
We must always...
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We must always take from nature what we paint and always choose the most beautiful things.
Source: Treatise on Painting, 1436.
-- Leon Battista Alberti, (Feb 14 1404-1472), Italian architect, philospher, poet; He was the principal initiator of Renaissance art theory; wrote De re aedificatoria, 10 vols 1485 which stimulated interest in Roman architecture.