Leon Battista Alberti
Subtitle: On painting  : a new translation and critical edition
By: Leon Battista Alberti ; [translated by] Rocco Sinisgalli
Contributors: Sinisgalli, Rocco
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 214
ISBN-13: 9781107000629
Other titles: On painting
Work titles: De pictura
Description: "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. Leon Battista Alberti: 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 it 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"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: Part I. Introduction: 1. From Tuscan to Latin and not vice versa; 2. Regiomontanus, Dürer and the Edito princeps; 3. The Tuscan vernacular text, its Prologue and Dedication to Brunelleschi; 4. The false priority of Latin; 5. The Florentine tradition; 6. From Janitschek to Grayson; Part II. Text: 7. Prologue addressed to Filippo Brunelleschi; 8. Letter to Giovanni Francesco Prince of Mantua; 9. Book one: the rudiments; 10. Book two: the picture; 11. Book three: the painter.