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Leon Battista Alberti in exile : tracing the path to the first modern book on painting /

"The prodigy poet, playwright, architect, painter, and humanist savant Leon Battista Alberti emerged in 1435 with De pictura ['On Painting'], the modern era's earliest discourse on Western art, written in classical Latin by an ostensible practitioner of the craft. Alberti has cap...

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Main Author:	Weller, Peter (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	[Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2025.
Subjects:	Alberti, Leon Battista, > 1404-1472 > Exile. Alberti, Leon Battista, > 1404-1472. > De pictura. Architects > Italy > 15th century > Biography. Architecture, Renaissance > Italy. Italy > Art and achitecture > 15th century. Architectes > Italie > 15e siècle > Biographies.

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