Leon Battista Alberti
On painting : a new translation and critical edition
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Contributions
- Sinisgalli, Rocco - Contributor
Publication
2010 - Cambridge University Press, New York, New York (State)
Language
English
Word Count
53,500 words, Guess
Page Count
214 pages
Identifiers
- ISBN-139781107000629
- ISBN-101107000629
- Library of Congress Control Number2010027685
- OCLC Control Number645790793
- Better World Books9781107000629
and 1 more
- Open LibraryOL24438795M
Classifications
- DDC750
- LCCND1130 .A4813 2010
- LCCND1130 .A4813 2011
Alternate Titles
- On painting
Description
"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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