Leon Battista Alberti: On Painting: A New Translation And Critical Edition - Softcover

Alberti, Leon Battista

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1107694930 ISBN 13: 9781107694934

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2013

Synopsis

Excellent Condition. The book is unread and in excellent condition, but there are some minor creases around the edges of the cover and slight yellowing of the pages. 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 revolutionised Western art. In this volume, Rocco Sinisgalli presents a new English translation and critical examination of Alberti's seminal text. Dr Sinisgalli reveres 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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Review:

"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

Book Description:

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. This volume is richly illustrated to help demonstrate how Alberti understood optics and art.

About this edition

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1107694930
• ISBN 13: 9781107694934
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 232