ID - 32468007 TI - Leon Battista Alberti : On painting : a new translation and critical edition AU - Alberti, Leon Battista AU - Sinisgalli, Rocco PY - 2011 SN - 9781107000629 9780511782190 9781107694934 1107694930 9781139042611 1139042610 0511782195 1107000629 9781139045254 1139036386 1107219914 1280886692 1139041843 9786613728005 1139045253 1139038702 113904107X 9781139036382 9781107219915 9781280886690 9781139041843 6613728004 9781139038706 PB - Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Painting KW - Peinture KW - Early works to 1800. KW - Ouvrages avant 1800 KW - Alberti, Leon Battista KW - Graphic arts KW - Art, Graphic KW - Arts, Graphic KW - Graphic design (Graphic arts) KW - Graphics KW - Art KW - Visual communication KW - Arts and Humanities KW - General and Others UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:32468007 AB - 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. ER -