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Leon Battista Alberti: On Painting

A New Translation and Critical Edition

Leon Battista Alberti author Rocco Sinisgalli editor

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Cambridge University Press

Published:25th Jul '13

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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.

"This new English edition will serve as a useful introduction to Alberti’s text and as a fair guide to further study." -Charles H. Carman,University at Buffalo

ISBN: 9781107694934

Dimensions: 229mm x 152mm x 13mm

Weight: 340g

232 pages