Leon Battista Alberti was one of the most important humanist scholars of the Italian Renaissance. Active in mid-fifteenth-century Florence, he was an architect, theorist, and author of texts on perspective and painting. Leon Battista Alberti: On Painting is a cardinal work that revolutionized Western art. In this volume Rocco Sinisgalli presents a new English translation and critical examination of Alberti's seminal text. Dr Sinisgalli reverses the received understanding of the relationship between the Italian and Latin versions of Alberti's treatise by demonstrating that Alberti wrote it first in Italian and then translated it into a polished Latin over the course of several decades. This volume is richly illustrated to help demonstrate how Alberti understood optics and art.
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Title
Leon Battista Alberti: On Painting
Imprint
Cambridge University Press
Product Form
Paperback
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Source ISBN
9781107694934
Genre
Art
ISBN13
9781107694934
Book Category
Arts, Language and Linguistic Books
BISAC Subject Heading
ART009000
Book Subcategory
Art Books
ISBN10
9781107694934
Language
English
Dimensions
Width
13 mm
Height
229 mm
Length
152 mm
Weight
340 gr
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