Leon Battista Alberti
Subtitle: Master Builder of the Italian Renaissance
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: April 15, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 432
ISBN-13: 9780674008687
Subjects: European history: c 1500 to c 1750; Individual architects; Individual artists; Renaissance art; c 1000 CE to c 1500; c 1500 to c 1600; Renaissance; Historical - General; History; Biography / Autobiography; Italian; History: World; Italy; Artists, Architects, Photographers; European - Italian
Description: Leon Battista Alberti (1404-1472) was one of the most exciting figures of the Italian Renaissance. He wrote the first modern treatise on painting, the first modern manual of classical architecture, and a powerful set of "dialogues" about the princely families of Florence. But Alberti also made his own spectacular advances in the art of painting and in engineering, and was responsible for some of the most exciting architectural designs in Italy. In this volume, Renaissance scholar Anthony Grafton offers the biography and cultural history that Alberti has long deserved. It is a compelling portrait of a mysterious and original intellectual.