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Leon Battista Alberti in Exile: Tracing the Path to the First Modern Book on Painting

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Availability:In StockContributor:Peter WellerPublish date:2025-03-06Pages:400
Language:EnglishPublisher:Cambridge University PressISBN-13:9781009548663ISBN-10:1009548662UPC:9781009548663Book Category:ArtSize:10.15 x 7.27 x 1.08 inchesWeight:2.2112Product ID:SCJZ3C4RZN

Leon Battista Alberti in Exile: Tracing the Path to the First Modern Book on Painting

The prodigy poet, playwright, architect, painter, and humanist savant Leon Battista Alberti emerged in 1435 with De pictura ['On Painting'], the modern era's earliest discourse on Western art, written in classical Latin by an ostensible practitioner of the craft. Alberti has captivated the art world from his own epoch to ours, and his dubious Florentine identity enables this allure. In this...
Language:EnglishPublisher:Cambridge University PressISBN-13:9781009548663ISBN-10:1009548662UPC:9781009548663Book Category:ArtSize:10.15 x 7.27 x 1.08 inchesWeight:2.2112Product ID:SCJZ3C4RZN
Weller, Peter: - Peter Weller is an independent scholar of Italian Renaissance art.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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