Leon Battista Alberti was an outstanding polymath of the 15th century, alongside Piero della Francesca & before Leonardo da Vinci. While his contributions to architecture & the visual arts are well known, his mathematical works are not well represented. The four treatises includ…
Leon Battista Alberti was an outstanding polymath of the fifteenth century, alongside Piero della Francesca and before Leonardo da Vinci. While his contributions to architecture and the visual arts are well known and available in good English editions, and much of his literary a…
"Providing a fresh evaluation of Alberti's text 'On Painting' (1435), along with comparisons to various works of Nicholas Cusanus - particularly his Vision of God (1450) - this study reveals a shared epistemology of vision. And, the author argues, it is one that reflects a more …
Providing a fresh evaluation of Alberti's text 'On Painting' (1435), along with comparisons to various works of Nicholas Cusanus - particularly his Vision of God (1450) - this study reveals a shared epistemology of vision. And, the author argues, it is one that reflects a more d…
Providing a fresh evaluation of Alberti’s text 'On Painting' (1435), along with comparisons to various works of Nicholas Cusanus - particularly his Vision of God (1450) - this study reveals a shared epistemology of vision. And, the author argues, it is one that reflects a m…