Leon Battista Alberti : master builder of the Italian renaissance / by Anthony Grafton
By: Grafton, Anthony
Publisher: Cambridge : Harvard university press, 2000Description: 417 p. ill. [some b/w] 23cm001: 10725ISBN: 0674008685Subject(s): Alberti, Leon Battista | ArchitectsDDC classification: 720.92 ALB
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
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, one of our most distinguished Renaissance scholars offers the superlative biography and cultural history that Alberti has long deserved. It is a compelling portrait of a mysterious and original intellectual.
Includes acknowledgements, index
Table of contents provided by Syndetics
- Acknowledgments
- I Who Was Leon Battista Alberti? Making an Identity in the 1430s
- II Humanism: The Advantages and Disadvantages of Scholarship
- IlI From New Technologies to Fine Arts: Alberti Among the Engineers
- IV On Painting: Alberti and the Origins of Criticism
- V Interpreting Florence: From Reading to Rebuilding
- VI The Artist at Court: Alberti in Ferrara
- VII His Lost City: Alberti the Antiquary
- VIII Alberti on the Art of Building
- IX The Architect and City Planner
- Epilogue
- Notes
- Index
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