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On Painting Book

141 pp. Translated with Introduction and Notes by John R. Spencer. Taches de scotch sur la 1ère et la dernière pages.Read More

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  • Blackwell

    Alberti's Della Pittura was the first modern analytical study of painting, a pioneering treatise on the theory of art. A systematic description of the one-point perspective construction, it was primarily designed to persuade both patron and...

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    Artist, architect, poet and philosopher, Leon Battista Alberti revolutionized the history of art with his theories of perspective in On Painting (1435). Inspired by the order and beauty inherent in nature, his groundbreaking work sets out the principles of distance, dimension and proportion; instructs the painter on how to use the rules of composition, representation, light and colour to create work that is graceful and pleasing to the eye; and stipulates the moral and artistic pre-requisites of the successful painter. On Painting had an immediate and profound influence on Italian Renaissance artists including Ghiberti, Fra Angelico and Veneziano and on later figures such as Leonardo da Vinci, and remains a compelling theory of art.

  • 0300000014
  • 9780300000016
  • Leon Battista Alberti
  • 1 July 1977
  • Yale University Press
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 141
  • Revised edition
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