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 Wester...
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Cambridge University Press
2011
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| Collection: | Cambridge Books Online - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- 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