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On Painting - Alberti, Leon Battista, and Kemp, Martin (Editor)
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Artist, architect, poet and philosopher, Leon Battista Alberti revolutionized the history of art with his theories of perspective in On Painting (1435). Inspired by the order and beauty inherent in nature, his groundbreaking work sets out the principles of distance, dimension and proportion; instructs the painter on how to use the rules of composition, representation, light and colour to create work that is graceful and pleasing to the eye; and stipulates the moral and artistic pre-requisites of the successful painter. On ...

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On Painting 1991, Penguin Group, New York

ISBN-13: 9780140433319

Trade paperback

On Painting 1972, Phaidon Press Ltd, London

ISBN-13: 9780714815527

Hardcover

On Painting 1967, Yale University Press

ISBN-13: 9780300000016

Revised edition

Trade paperback