Leon Battista Alberti : on painting : a new translation and critical edition / ; edited and translated by Rocco Sinisgalli.
"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...
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| Format: | Ebook |
| Language: | English Italian |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2011.
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| Series: | Cambridge books online.
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| Online Access: | Cambridge Books on Core |
| Summary: | "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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| Item Description: | Translated from the Italian. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xv, 214 pages) : illustrations. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 1280886692 9781280886690 0511782195 9780511782190 1139038702 9781139038706 113904107X 9781139041072 1139041843 9781139041843 1139042610 9781139042611 |
| DOI: | 10.1017/CBO9780511782190 |