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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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Alberti, Leon Battista, 1404-1472
Otros Autores: Sinisgalli, Rocco
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Italiano
Publicado: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2011.
Colección:Cambridge books online.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Introduction: From Tuscan to Latin and not vice versa; Johannes Regiomontanus, Albrecht Dürer and the Edito princeps; The Tuscan vernacular text, its Prologue and Dedication to Brunelleschi; The false priority of Latin; The Florentine tradition; From Janitschek to Grayson
  • Text: Prologue addressed to Filippo Brunelleschi; Letter to Giovanni Francesco; Book one: the rudiments; Book two: the picture; Book three: the painter
  • Appendixes: Appendix 1: Limitations of Grayson's studies on De Pictura; Appendix 2: First doubts.