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37: 938: 45: 22: 253: 314:, deriving his key themes of simplicity and seriousness directly from Pliny. For example, Alberti advised artists to use colour with restraint, and to paint in the effect of gold rather than using actual gold in their paintings. Gold did indeed vanish from Italian paintings of the second part of the 15th century. Artists however found their own ways to paint with restraint, rather than following Alberti's actual instructions directly. Similarly, he encouraged artists to add black when modelling shapes, rather than only adding white as 2008: 485: 126:(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. 223:
Alberti argued that multi-figure history painting was the noblest form of art, as being the most difficult, which required mastery of all the others, because it was a visual form of history, and because it had the greatest potential to move the viewer. He placed emphasis on the ability to depict the
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No particular precept in the first part of De pictura had as pervasive an impact as the following section on perspective construction; the specific recommendations on color and shadow were ineffectual.. But the incalculable change that Leonardo wrought was directly dependent on Alberti's vision of
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had an immediate and profound influence on Italian Renaissance artists including Ghiberti, Fra Angelico and Veneziano and on later figures such as Leonardo da Vinci, and remains a compelling theory of art.
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The treatise contained an analysis of all the techniques and painting theories known at the time, in this surpassing medieval works such as
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of his day. As an artist, architect, poet and philosopher, he revolutionized the history of art with his theories of perspective in
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family exiled in the 14th century, who was able to return in Florence only from 1434, in the following of the Papal court during the
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Leon Battista Alberti's Hypnerotomachia Poliphili: Re-Cognizing the Architectural Body in the Early Italian Renaissance
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aimed to describe systematically the figurative arts through "geometry". Alberti divided painting into three parts:
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also includes the first description of linear geometric perspective around 1416; Alberti credited the discovery to
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in Rome (now effectively lost) was the only modern (post-classical) work described in it.
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Wright, D. R. Edward (1984). "Alberti's De Pictura: Its Literary Structure and Purpose".
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in the Italian version of the treatise), including tracing the lines joining the bodies
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Book I: a simple introduction for young boys, in preparation for studying painting
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was the most influential of his recommendations, being powerfully implemented by
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Book II: a survey of types of painting for teenage trainees in a workshop
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Rendition of Alberti's description of how a circle projected as an ellipse
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On Painting and On Sculpture: The Latin texts of De Pictura and De Statua
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Distance Points: Essays in Theory and Renaissance Art and Architecture
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relied heavily on references to art in classical literature; in fact
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Book III: advice to the adult painter on how to perfect his skill
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Alberti was the first post-classical writer to produce a work of
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Viewpoints: Mathematical Perspective and Fractal Geometry in Art
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Grafton, Anthony; Most, Glenn W.; Settis, Salvatore (2010).
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interactions between the figures by gesture and expression.
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On Painting. A New Translation and Critical Edition
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De re aedificatoria
Florentine
Council of Florence
Filippo Brunelleschi
Donatello
Masaccio
Renaissance humanism
art theory
Italian Renaissance art
Mathematics and art
Cennino Cennini
Brunelleschi
Giotto
Navicella
Old St. Peter's Basilica

Leonardo da Vinci
Annunciation
Donatello
Ghiberti
Botticelli
Ghirlandaio
perspective

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