Softcover
2016 · Rome, Italy
by Roccasecca, Pietro
Rome, Italy: Campisano editore, 2016. Softcover. VG (edge-wear to covers w/ smudges & scuffs to back cover. rubbing to corners. spine top rubbed & creased; creasing to spine, textblock firm; tight binding, appears unread). orange illustrated & black wrappers w/ aqua, white printing. 382 pgs. text in Italian. Leon Battista Alberti's pictorial theory is the result of the interaction of three factors: humanist culture, the theory and practice of drawing and optical theory. For his scientific knowledge Alberti drew both from the scholastic tradition of Western universities, and from the new translations of optical treatises that from Arab culture were transmitted to Europeans such as Ptolemy's Optics and, above all, Alhacen's De aspectibus. The three components of Albertian pictorial theory interact, developing an overall vision of the "weltbild" of the modern age, which will engage studies for a long time. The new and original reading of De pictura proposed by philosophers, orators and painters opens up new spaces to the research of studies consecrated to Leon Battista Alberti, to the history and theory of art, to the history of culture and to the history of the appropriation of scientific knowledge. by the artists.--WorldCat, translated.
(Inventory #: 186864)