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On painting / Leon Battista Alberti ; translated by Cecil Grayson ; with an introduction and notes by Martin Kemp.
Fine Arts Library ND1130 .A483 1991
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LIBRA ND1130 .A483 1991
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Alberti, Leon Battista, 1404-1472.
- Series:
- Penguin classics
- Standardized Title:
- De pictura. English
- Language:
- English
- Latin
- Subjects (All):
- Painting--Early works to 1800.
- Painting.
- Physical Description:
- 101 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- London, England ; New York, N.Y. : Penguin Books, 1991.
- Summary:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 30-32).
- ISBN:
- 0140433317
- OCLC:
- 24313201
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