De Re Aedificatoria, by Leon Battista Alberti (1404-1472), was the first moderntreatise on the theory and practice of architecture. Its importance for the subsequent history ofarchitecture is incalculable, yet this is the first English translation based on the original, exceptio…
Concepts of beauty in Renaissance art
by Onians, John, Ames-Lewis, Francis, Rogers, Mary, Cropper, Elizabeth, Cole, Alison, Bridgeman, Jane, Shepherd, Rupert, Hemsoll, David, Morrall, Andrew, Clarke, Georgia, Fermor, Sharon, Vaccaro, Mary, Snow-Smith, Joanne, Hills, Paul, Frangenberg, Thomas, Williams, Robert, Cheney, Liana
Leon Battista Alberti (1404Ơ-1472) was a highly prolific polymath of the fifteenth century. Although his contributions to architecture and the visual arts are well known and available in good English editions, as are many of his literary and social writings, his mathematical wor…
