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De pictura (English: "On Painting") is a treatise or commentarii written by the Italian humanist and artist Leon Battista Alberti. The first version, composed in Latin in 1435, was not published until 1450. It is one of his three treatises on art; the other two are De statua and De re aedificatoria, that would form the Renaissance concept for ...
Apr 14, 2016 · The book On Painting, written in 1435 by Leon Battista Alberti, established for the first time the rules for drawing an image of a three-dimensional scene on the two-dimensional plane of a panel or wall. It had an immediate and profound effect upon Italian painting and relief work, giving rise to the correct, large, geometrically … Continue reading "De Pictura / On Painting"
Leon Battista Alberti: On Painting. Leon Battista Alberti was one of the most important humanist scholars of the Italian Renaissance. Active in mid-fi fteenth-century Florence, he was an architect, a theorist, and the author of texts on perspective and painting. Alberti’s On Painting is a cardinal work that revolutionized Western art.
Oct 8, 2016 · Leon Battista Alberti, Wikipedia [Public Domain] Inspired by the mathematical order and beauty found in nature, Alberti set out rules of distance, dimension and proportion in his De Pictura or Della pittura (“On Painting”) of 1435, instructing painters on representation, composition, light and colour and encouraging them create elegant and visually pleasing works of art. He also makes a ...
Notebook, 1993- . Alberti 'On Painting' - Notes 1-25 Alberti, Leon Battista. On Painting. [First appeared 1435-36] Translated with Introduction and Notes by John R. Spencer.
Jul 19, 2021 · Grayson, Cecil, ed; Alberti, Leon Battista, 1404-1472. De statua. English & Latin. 1972 Boxid IA40174720 Camera Sony Alpha-A6300 (Control) Collection_set printdisabled External-identifier urn:oclc:record:1280759368
Summary of Leon Battista Alberti. Alberti is considered the father of Early Renaissance art theory and, because of his great adaptability, the archetypal "universal man". He is perhaps revered first-and-foremost as the founder of modern architecture. But Alberti's faith in mathematical principles and rational order led him into overlapping ...
