On Painting: Revised edition - Softcover

Alberti, Leon Battista

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0300000014 ISBN 13: 9780300000016

Verlag: Yale University Press, 1977

Inhaltsangabe

141 pp. Translated with Introduction and Notes by John R. Spencer. Taches de scotch sur la 1ère et la dernière pages.

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Alberti's Della Pittura was the first modern analytical study of painting, a pioneering treatise on the theory of art. A systematic description of the one-point perspective construction, it was primarily designed to persuade both patron and painter in the Renaissance to discard the old tastes in painting for the new. John R. Spencer's translation of Della Pittura is based on all the known manuscripts and is edited with an Introduction and Notes.

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Alberti's Della Pittura was the first modern analytical study of painting, a pioneering treatise on the theory of art. A systematic description of the one-point perspective construction, it was primarily designed to persuade both patron and painter in the Renaissance to discard the old tastes in painting for the new. In his prologue, Alberti states that his work consists of three books: 'the first, all mathematics, concerning the roots in nature which are the source of this delightful and most noble art. The second book puts the art in the hand of the artist, distinguishing its parts and demonstrating all. The third introduces the artist to the means and the end, the ability and desire of acquiring perfect skill and knowledge in painting.'

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• Verlag: Yale University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1977
• ISBN 10: 0300000014
• ISBN 13: 9780300000016
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Sprache: Englisch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 141