Leon Battista Alberti: Universal Man of the Early Renaissance
by Gadol, Joan
- Used
- Very Good
- Paperback
- Condition
- Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0226278417
- ISBN 13
- 9780226278414
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About This Item
Chicago: University of Chicago Press; Phoenix Books., 1969. xv, 266 pages, illustrations; 22 x 23 cm. P 562. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Age toning. Joan Gadol's study of the Italian Renaissance architect Leon Battista Alberti (1404-1472). CONTENTS: THE PAINTER'S PERSPECTIVE. Vision: the optical theory of natural perspectives; Depiction before Alberti; The new visual geometry; Depiction after Alberti; THE CLASSICAL PERSPECTIVE. Proportion in painting; "Rational seeing" and "Renaissance"; The form of the individual; ART, THE MIRROR OF NATURE. Renaissance art theory; The theory of Renaissance architecture: numerus, finitio, and collocatio; The practice of Renaissance architecture; Nature and genius; THE RATIONAL COSMOS. Art and cosmology, medieval and modern; The measure of the Earth; The measure of the heavens; The scientific mode of thought; RATIONAL MAN. The humanistic mode of thought: letters and virtue; Epilogue: The measure of the man.. Paperback. Very Good. Oblong.
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- Bookseller
- LEFT COAST BOOKS (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 100899
- Title
- Leon Battista Alberti: Universal Man of the Early Renaissance
- Author
- Gadol, Joan
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0226278417
- ISBN 13
- 9780226278414
- Publisher
- University of Chicago Press; Phoenix Books.
- Place of Publication
- Chicago
- Date Published
- 1969
- Size
- Oblong
- Bookseller catalogs
- European / Italian; European / 4. Renaissance; Architecture / Individual Architect;
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