Main entry:

Kelly, Joan, 1928-1982.

Title & Author:

Leon Battista Alberti : universal man of the early Renaissance / Joan Gadol.

Publication:

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1969.

Description:

xv, 266 pages : illustrations ; 22 x 23 cm

Series:

A Phoenix book

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-257).
The painter's perspective. Vision: the optical theory of natural perspectives ; Depiction before Alberti ; The new visual geometry ; Depiction after Alberti -- The classical perspective. Proportion in painting ; "Rational seeing" and "Renaissance" ; The form of the individual -- Art, the mirror of nature. Renaissance art theory ; The theory of Renaissance architecture: numerus, finitio, and collocatio ; The practice of Renaissance architecture ; Nature and genius -- The rational cosmos. Art and cosmology, medieval and modern ; The measure of the Earth ; The measure of the heavens ; The scientific mode of thought -- Rational man. The humanistic mode of thought: letters and virtue ; Epilogue: The measure of the man.

Summary:

Analyzes the Italian artist's achievements in painting, sculpture, architectu mathematics, and other fields, illuminating the aesthetic, scientific, and moral philosophy of the era.

ISBN:

0226307891
9780226307893
0226278417
9780226278414
0226278409
9780226278407

Subject:

Alberti, Leon Battista, 1404-1472.
Alberti, Leon Battista 1404-1472
Alberti, Leon Battista, (1404-1472)
Architecture, Renaissance Italy.
Architects Italy Biography.
Architectes Italie Biographies.
Architects
Architecture, Renaissance
Kosmologie.
Perspectief.
Kunst.
Renaissance.
Architecture de la Renaissance Italie.
Architects Biography.
Italy

Form/genre:

Biography
Biographies

Added entries:

Phoenix books (Chicago, Ill.)

Universal man of the early Renaissance

Holdings:

Location: Library main 151558
Call No.: NA44.A334.9 K4 1969
Copy: c. 1
Status: Available