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Leon Battista Alberti : on painting : a new translation and critical edition /
"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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés Italiano |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2011.
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| Colección: | Cambridge books online.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | "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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| Notas: | Translated from the Italian. |
| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xv, 214 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-212) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781139042611 1139042610 9780511782190 0511782195 1139036386 9781139036382 1107219914 9781107219915 1280886692 9781280886690 1139041843 9781139041843 9786613728005 6613728004 1139045253 9781139045254 1139038702 9781139038706 |