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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.


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