| On Painting |  | Author: Leone Battista Alberti
Publisher: Greenwood Press Reprint
Category: Book
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Sales Rank: 5,714,586
Format: Facsimile
Languages: English (Unknown), Italian (Original Language), English (Published)
Media: Hardcover
Pages: 141
Number Of Items: 1
ISBN: 0837189748
EAN: 9780837189741
ASIN: 0837189748
Publication Date: October 19, 1976
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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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