Leon Battista Alberti: On Painting: A New Translation and Critical Edition - Hardcover

Alberti, Leon Battista; Sinisgalli, Rocco

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1107000629 ISBN 13: 9781107000629

Verlag: Cambridge University Press, 2011

Inhaltsangabe

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.

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"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

Reseña del editor:

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.

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• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2011
• ISBN 10: 1107000629
• ISBN 13: 9781107000629
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 230