Leon Battista Alberti: <I>On Painting</I> : A New Translation and Critical Edition / Leon Battista Alberti, Edited and translated by Rocco Sinisgalli.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Alberti, Leon Battista, 1404-1472.

Sinisgalli, Rocco.

Series:

Cambridge books online.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Painting--Early works to 1800.

Painting.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (230 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2011.

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

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Summary:

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 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 On Painting 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. Book jacket.

Contents:

Introduction

From Tuscan to Latin, and Not Vice Versa 3

Johannes Regiomontanus, Albrecht Dürer, and the Editio Princeps 4

The Tuscan Vernacular Text, Its Prologue, and Its Dedication to Brunelleschi 7

The False Priority of Latin 9

The Florentine Tradition 11

From Janitschek to Grayson 13

Text

Prologue Addressed to Filippo Brunelleschi 17

Letter to Giovanni Francesco 20

Book 1 The Rudiments 22

Book 2 The Picture 44

Book 3 The Painter 74.

Notes:

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ISBN:

9780511782190

9781107000629

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