Leon Battista Alberti :: on painting : a new translation and critical edition /

"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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1. Verfasser: Alberti, Leon Battista, 1404-1472
Weitere Verfasser: Sinisgalli, Rocco
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Italian
Veröffentlicht: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2011.
Schriftenreihe:Cambridge books online.
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Zusammenfassung:"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"--
Beschreibung:Translated from the Italian.
Beschreibung:1 online resource (xv, 214 pages) : illustrations
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-212) and index.
ISBN:9781139042611
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