Leon Battista Alberti : on painting : a new translation and critical edition / ; edited and translated by Rocco Sinisgalli.
2011
ND1130 .A4813 2011eb
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Title
Leon Battista Alberti : on painting : a new translation and critical edition / ; edited and translated by Rocco Sinisgalli.
Uniform Title
De pictura. English
ISBN
9781139042611 (electronic bk.)
1139042610 (electronic bk.)
9780511782190 (ebook)
0511782195 (ebook)
9781107000629
1107000629
9781139045254
1139036386
9781139036382
1107219914
9781107219915
1280886692
9781280886690
1139041843
9781139041843
9786613728005
6613728004
1139045253
9781139045254
1139038702
9781139038706
1139042610 (electronic bk.)
9780511782190 (ebook)
0511782195 (ebook)
9781107000629
1107000629
9781139045254
1139036386
9781139036382
1107219914
9781107219915
1280886692
9781280886690
1139041843
9781139041843
9786613728005
6613728004
1139045253
9781139045254
1139038702
9781139038706
Imprint
Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2011.
Language
English
Language Note
English.
Description
1 online resource (xv, 214 pages) : illustrations
Call Number
ND1130 .A4813 2011eb
System Control No.
(OCoLC)782907419
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"-- Provided by publisher
Note
Translated from the Italian.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-212) and index.
Formatted Contents Note
Introduction: From Tuscan to Latin and not vice versa; Johannes Regiomontanus, Albrecht Dürer and the Edito princeps; The Tuscan vernacular text, its Prologue and Dedication to Brunelleschi; The false priority of Latin; The Florentine tradition; From Janitschek to Grayson
Text: Prologue addressed to Filippo Brunelleschi; Letter to Giovanni Francesco; Book one: the rudiments; Book two: the picture; Book three: the painter
Appendixes: Appendix 1: Limitations of Grayson's studies on De Pictura; Appendix 2: First doubts.
Text: Prologue addressed to Filippo Brunelleschi; Letter to Giovanni Francesco; Book one: the rudiments; Book two: the picture; Book three: the painter
Appendixes: Appendix 1: Limitations of Grayson's studies on De Pictura; Appendix 2: First doubts.
Source of Description
Print version record.
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Series
Cambridge books online.
Available in Other Form
Print version: Alberti, Leon Battista, 1404-1472. De pictura. English. Leon Battista Alberti. Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2011
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