On Painting (Penguin Classics) (Paperback)
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all these other countries) Usually dispatched within 48 hours | |Short Description for On Painting Alberti`s "Della Pittura" was the first modern analytical study of painting. A systematic description of the one-point perspective construction, it was designed to persuade both patron and painter in the Renaissance to discard the old tastes in painting for the new.
Full description- Publisher: PENGUIN CLASSICS
- Published: 02 July 1991
- Format: Paperback 112 pages
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- Categories: General | Art History: c 1400 to c 1600 | Art History: Renaissance | Paintings | Art Techniques & Principles
- ISBN 13: 9780140433319 ISBN 10: 0140433317
- Sales rank: 81,984
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Full description for On Painting
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.
