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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"--
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Leon Battista Alberti: on Painting
2012, Cambridge University Press
in English
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Leon Battista Alberti: On Painting
2011, Cambridge University Press
in English
113904107X 9781139041072
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Leon Battista Alberti: On painting : a new translation and critical edition
2010, Cambridge University Press
in English
1107000629 9781107000629
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Leon Battista Alberti: censimento dei manoscritti : 1. Firenze
2004, Edizioni Polistampa
in Italian
8883048318 9788883048319
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