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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... Read Full Overview

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. Alberti's On Painting is a cardinal work that revolutionized... Read Full Overview

"For a thoughtful approach to the aesthetic and the attitudes of the art of the Renaissance as it emerged, Alberti's On Painting is clearly the one most valuable source book."--Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism

In his discussion of painting Alberti writes of the process of vision, how the painter can present with his hand what he has understood with his mind, and the moral and artistic pre-requisites of the painter.

Il De pictura un trattato sulla pittura scritto da Leon Battista Alberti. Secondo alcuni recenti studi fu redatto dapprima in volgare, nel 1435, dedicandolo a Filippo Brunelleschi, e successivamente in latino, arricchendolo di nuove riflessioni, di correzioni di precedenti... Read Full Overview

"De Pictura" from Leon Battista Alberti. Leon Battista Alberti was an Italian author, artist, architect, poet, priest, linguist, philosopher, cryptographer and general Renaissance humanist polymath (1404-1472).

In his discussion of painting Alberti writes of the process of vision, how the painter can present with his hand what he has understood with his mind, and the moral and artistic pre-requisites of the painter.

"Della pittura" from Leon Battista Alberti. Architetto, scrittore, matematico, umanista, crittografo, linguista, filosofo, musicista e archeologo italiano (1404-1472).