Leon Battista Alberti: On Painting
โ Scribed by Alberti, Leon Battista;Sinisgalli, Rocco
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Year
- 2011
- Tongue
- English
- Edition
- New translation and critical ed.
- Category
- Library
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
โฆ Subjects
Painting;Peinture;Early works;Painting -- Early works to 1800;Peinture -- Ouvrages avant 1800
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<p>Artist, architect, poet and philosopher, Leon Battista Alberti revolutionized the history of art with his theories of perspective in On Painting (1435). Inspired by the order and beauty inherent in nature, his groundbreaking work sets out the principles of distance, dimension and proportion; inst
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. Alberti's On Painting is a cardinal work that revolutionized Western art. In thi