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.

On Painting

Arts & Photography

Leon Battista Alberti

History & Criticism

Yale University Press

Momus is the most ambitious literary creation of Leon Battista Alberti, the famous humanist-scientist-artist and "universal man" of the Italian Renaissance. In this dark comedy, written around 1450, Alberti charts the lively fortunes of his anti-hero Momus, the unscrupulous and vitriolic god of criticism. Alberti deploys his singular erudition and wit to satirize subjects from court life and politics to philosophy and intellectuals, from grand architectural designs to human and divine folly. The possible contemporary resonance of Alberti's satire―read variously as a humanist roman-à-clef and as a veiled mockery of the mid-Quattrocento papacy―is among its most intriguing aspects. While his more famous books on architecture, painting, and family life have long been regarded as indispensable to a study of Renaissance culture, Momus has recently attracted increasing attention from scholars as a work anticipating the realism of Machiavelli and the satiric wit of Erasmus. This edition provides a new Latin text, the first to be based on the two earliest manuscripts, both corrected by Alberti himself, and includes the first full translation into English.

Momus (The I Tatti Renaissance Library)

Literature & Fiction

Humor & Satire

Harvard University Press

, viii, 159 pages, black &amp; white illustrations, edited with translations, introduction and notes, complete

On Painting and On Sculpture

Reference

Foreign Language Study & Reference

Phaidon

Marsh (Italian, Rutgers U.) introduces the revived popularity of Aesop-like fables in the Renaissance, initiated by Alberti's 100 Apologues (1437). After a biographical sketch of each author and list of primary and secondary references, side- by-side presentations in the original Latin and in English translation are supplied of Alberti's work and

Renaissance Fables: Aesopic Prose (Medieval & Renaissance Texts & Studies)

Leonardo, Da Vinci

Bartolomeo Scala

Bernardino Baldi

Mrts

The four books of The Family in Renaissance Florence do not present a single, homogeneously bourgeois outlook. They are a monument of attitudes. Written as a dialogue, they express conflicting points of view, enabling today’s readers to relive social and moral conflicts that troubled early capitalist society. Alberti’s personages confront much of what it means to be consciously urban—to experience social mobility, to recognize the psychological as well as the practical importance of purchased commodities, to wish in vain for stable families and firm public authority amid fluctuating fortunes and alliances.

The Family in Renaissance Florence (I libri della famiglia), Books One-Four

Waveland Press. Inc.

El arquitecto, pintor, escultor, literato, jurista, atleta y filósofo Leon Battista Alberti (Génova, C. 1404-Roma, 1472), autor del tratado De Re Aedificatoria, presentado al Papa Nicolás V en el año de 1452 y editado por vez primera en 1485, ha sido, probablemente, el creador de la teoría de la arquitectura y del urbanismo

De Re Aedificatoria (Fuentes de arte) (Spanish Edition)

EDICIONES AKAL SA

Da Pintura (seguido de) Da Escultura (Portuguese Edition)

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