Author : Leon Battista Alberti
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 484 pages
File Size : 23,73 MB
Release : 1991-07-01
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780262510608
De Re Aedificatoria, by Leon Battista Alberti (1404-1472), was the first modern treatise on the theory and practice of architecture. Its importance for the subsequent history of architecture is incalculable, yet this is the first English translation based on the original, exceptionally eloquent Latin text on which Alberti's reputation as a theorist is founded.
Author : Anthony Grafton
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 13,86 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780674008687
The Visual Poetics of Raymond Carver draws on the study of visual arts to illuminate the short stories of noted author Raymond Carver, in the broader context of vision and visualization in a literary text. Ayala Amir examines Carver's use of the eye-of-the-camera technique. Amir uncovers the tensions that structure his visual aesthetics and examines assumptions that govern scholarly discussions of his work, relating these matters to the complex nature of photography and to the current "visual turn"of cultural studies. The research uses visual approaches to reflect upon traditional issues of narrative study-duration, dialogue, narration, description, frame, character, and meaning. Amir shows how Carver's visual aesthetics shapes the meaning of his stories, while also challenging accepted notions of the boundaries of "the literary."
Author : Leon Battista Alberti
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 19,80 MB
Release : 1966-01-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780300000016
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.
Author : Leon Battista Alberti
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 12,58 MB
Release : 2011-05-09
Category : Art
ISBN : 1107000629
In this volume Rocco Sinisgalli presents a new English translation and critical examination of Alberti's seminal text.
Author : Mark Jarzombek
Publisher : MIT Press (MA)
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 36,20 MB
Release : 1989
Category : Architecture
ISBN :
Listen to Alberti's voice. This is what Mark Jarzombek has done in studying virtually all of Alberti's writings on philosophy, ethics, aesthetics architecture, and literature.
Author : Robert Tavernor
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 13,81 MB
Release : 1998-01-01
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780300076158
Leon Battista Alberti (1404-72) - writer, painter and sculptor, mathematician and, most famously, architectural theorist and architect - came closer than anyone to the Renaissance ideal of the 'complete man'. Recognised by his contemporaries as an extraordinary person, he helped to shape, through his writings and his practical example in the arts, the way in which the natural and artificial world was perceived and represented during the Renaissance.
Author : Caspar Pearson
Publisher : Reaktion Books
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 27,8 MB
Release : 2022-08-04
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 178914521X
A new account of the sui generis Renaissance writer and architect Leon Battista Alberti. One of the most brilliant and original authors and architects of the entire Renaissance, Leon Battista Alberti had an output encompassing engineering, surveying, cryptography, poetry, humor, political commentary, and more. He employed irony, satire, and playful allusion in his written works, and developed a sophisticated approach to architecture that combined the ancient and modern. Born into the Florentine elite, Alberti was nonetheless disadvantaged due to exile and illegitimacy. As a result, he became an acute analyst of the social institutions of his time, as well as a profoundly existential writer who was intensely preoccupied with the human condition. This new account explores Alberti’s life and works, examining how his personal and intellectual preoccupations continually pushed him to engage with an ever-broader spectrum of Renaissance culture.
Author : Leon Battista Alberti
Publisher : Courier Dover Publications
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 16,81 MB
Release : 1986
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780486252391
Author : Liane Lefaivre
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 49,95 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780262621953
A critical-theoretical reading of the strange, dreamlike work of Leon Battista Alberti.
Author : Kim Williams
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 41,49 MB
Release : 2010-09-08
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 3034604742
Leon Battista Alberti was an outstanding polymath of the fifteenth century, alongside Piero della Francesca and before Leonardo da Vinci. While his contributions to architecture and the visual arts are well known and available in good English editions, and much of his literary and social writings are also available in English, his mathematical works are not well represented in readily available, accessible English editions have remained accessible only to specialists. The four treatises included here – Ludi matematici, De Componendis Cifris, Elementi di pittura and De lunularum quadratura – are extremely valuable in rounding out the portrait of this multitalented thinker. The treatises are presented in modern English translations, with commentary that is intended to make evident the depths of Alberti’s knowledge as well as address the treatises’ mathematical, historical and cultural context, their classical Greek roots, and their relationship to later works by Renaissance thinkers.
