On painting and On sculpture.
Subtitle: The Latin texts of De pictura and De statua
By: [by] Leon Battista Alberti. Edited with translations, introduction and notes by Cecil Grayson.
Contributors: Grayson, Cecil, ed.; Alberti, Leon Battista, 1404-1472.
Publisher: Phaidon
Published: 1972
Place of publication: [London]
Language: eng; lat
Number of pages: 159
Subjects: Painting -- Early works to 1800; Sculpture -- Early works to 1800
Other titles: On sculpture.
Description: This volume makes available the texts of two of his major works of artistic theory, which in part reflected and in part determined the practice of painting and sculpture and which are fundamental for the understanding of the theory and practice of Italian Renaissance art. In spite of their long acknowledge importance and frequent use, the texts themselves have remained comparatively neglected and not infreaquently misunderstood. -- Book Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.