Author : Leon Battista Alberti
Release : 1966-01-01
Genre : Art
Kind : eBook
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Book Synopsis On Painting by : Leon Battista Alberti
Download or read book On Painting written by Leon Battista Alberti. This book was released on 1966-01-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 painter in the Renaissance to discard the old tastes in painting for the new. John R. Spencer's translation of Della Pittura is based on all the known manuscripts and is edited with an Introduction and Notes.