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008 100630s2011 enka b 001 0 eng
010 $a 2010027685
020 $a9781107000629 (hardback)
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042 $apcc
050 00 $aND1130$b.A4813 2011
082 00 $a750$222
100 1 $aAlberti, Leon Battista,$d1404-1472.
240 10 $aDe pictura.$lEnglish
245 10 $aLeon Battista Alberti :$bOn painting : a new translation and critical edition /$c; edited and translated by Rocco Sinisgalli.
246 30 $aOn painting
260 $aCambridge ;$aNew York :$bCambridge University Press,$c2011.
300 $axv, 214 p. :$bill. ;$c24 cm.
520 $a"Leon Battista Alberti was one of the most important humanist scholars of the Italian Renaissance. Active in mid-fifteenth-century Florence, he was an architect, theorist, and author of texts on perspective and painting. Leon Battista Alberti: On Painting is a cardinal work that revolutionized Western art. In this volume, Rocco Sinisgalli presents a new English translation and critical examination of Alberti's seminal text. Dr Sinisgalli reverses the received understanding of the relationship between the Italian and Latin versions of Alberti's treatise by demonstrating that Alberti wrote it first in Italian and then translated it into a polished Latin over the course of several decades. This volume is richly illustrated to help demonstrate how Alberti understood optics and art"--$cProvided by publisher.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 207-212) and index.
505 8 $aMachine generated contents note: Part I. Introduction: 1. From Tuscan to Latin and not vice versa; 2. Regiomontanus, Dürer and the Edito princeps; 3. The Tuscan vernacular text, its Prologue and Dedication to Brunelleschi; 4. The false priority of Latin; 5. The Florentine tradition; 6. From Janitschek to Grayson; Part II. Text: 7. Prologue addressed to Filippo Brunelleschi; 8. Letter to Giovanni Francesco Prince of Mantua; 9. Book one: the rudiments; 10. Book two: the picture; 11. Book three: the painter.
650 0 $aPainting$vEarly works to 1800.
700 1 $aSinisgalli, Rocco.