On painting : a new translation and critical edition

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On painting : a new translation and critical edition

Leon Battista Alberti ; edited and translated by Rocco Sinisgalli

Cambridge University Press, 2011

  • : hardback

Other Title

De pictura

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Translation of: De pictura

Includes bibliographical references (p. 207-212) and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

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.

Table of Contents

  • Part I. Introduction: 1. From Tuscan to Latin and not vice versa
  • 2. Regiomontanus, Durer and the Edito princeps
  • 3. The Tuscan vernacular text, its Prologue and Dedication to Brunelleschi
  • 4. The false priority of Latin
  • 5. The Florentine tradition
  • 6. From Janitschek to Grayson
  • Part II. Text: 7. Prologue addressed to Filippo Brunelleschi
  • 8. Letter to Giovanni Francesco Prince of Mantua
  • 9. Book one: the rudiments
  • 10. Book two: the picture
  • 11. Book three: the painter.

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  • NCID
    BB06046005
  • ISBN
    • 9781107000629
  • LCCN
    2010027685
  • Country Code
    us
  • Title Language Code
    eng
  • Text Language Code
    eng
  • Original Language Code
    ita
  • Place of Publication
    New York ; Cambridge ; Tokyo
  • Pages/Volumes
    xv, 214 p.
  • Size
    24 cm
  • Classification
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