On Painting

On Painting
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Publisher : Yale University Press
Total Pages : 148
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ISBN-10 : 0300000014
ISBN-13 : 9780300000016
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Book Synopsis On Painting by : Leon Battista Alberti

Download or read book On Painting written by Leon Battista Alberti and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1966-01-01 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alberti’s Della Pittura was the first modern analytical study of painting, a pioneering treatise on the theory of art. A systematic description of the one-point perspective construction, it was primarily designed to persuade both patron and painter in the Renaissance to discard the old tastes in painting for the new. John R. Spencer's translation of Della Pittura is based on all the known manuscripts and is edited with an Introduction and Notes.


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