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Leon Battista Alberti : On painting : a new translation and critical edition
- Title
- Leon Battista Alberti : On painting : a new translation and critical edition / Leon Battista Alberti ; edited and translated by Rocco Sinisgalli.
- Author
- Alberti, Leon Battista, 1404-1472.
- Publication
- New York : Cambridge University Press, 2011.
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Sinisgalli, Rocco.
- Description
- xv, 214 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
- Summary
- "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"--
- Uniform Title
- De pictura. English
- Alternative Title
- De pictura.
- On painting
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 207-212) and index.
- Contents
- 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.
- Call Number
- JQE 12-387
- ISBN
- 9781107000629 (hardback)
- 1107000629 (hardback)
- LCCN
- 2010027685
- OCLC
- YBP 2010027685
- Author
- Alberti, Leon Battista, 1404-1472.
- Title
- Leon Battista Alberti : On painting : a new translation and critical edition / Leon Battista Alberti ; edited and translated by Rocco Sinisgalli.
- Imprint
- New York : Cambridge University Press, 2011.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 207-212) and index.
- Added Author
- Sinisgalli, Rocco.
- Research Call Number
- JQE 12-387