| On Painting (Penguin Classics) |  | Author: Leon Battista Alberti
Creator: Martin Kemp
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Category: Book
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Languages: English (Unknown), English (Original Language), English (Published)
Media: Paperback
Pages: 112
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Dimensions (in): 7.7 x 5.1 x 0.3
ISBN: 0140433317
EAN: 9780140433319
ASIN: 0140433317
Publication Date: July 2, 1991
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Artist, architect, poet and philosopher, Leon Battista Alberti revolutionized the history of art with his theories of perspective in On Painting (1435). Inspired by the order and beauty inherent in nature, his groundbreaking work sets out the principles of distance, dimension and proportion; instructs the painter on how to use the rules of composition, representation, light and colour to create work that is graceful and pleasing to the eye; and stipulates the moral and artistic pre-requisites of the successful painter. On Painting had an immediate and profound influence on Italian Renaissance artists including Ghiberti, Fra Angelico and Veneziano and on later figures such as Leonardo da Vinci, and remains a compelling theory of art.
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