WITH THE RARE DEDICATION BY THE TRANSLATOR TO JACOB MILICH PRESENT
ALBERTI, Leon Battista De pictvra: praestantissima, et nvmqvam satis laudata arte; libri tres absolutissimi, Leonis Baptistae de Albertis uiri in omni scientiarum genere, & præcipue mathematicarum disciplinarum doctissimi. Basel Barth. Westhemer? 1540
Scarce first edition of one of the most influential treatises on artistic theory, containing the “first written account of 1-point perspective.” – Kemp, p. 21 Taken together with Alberti’s two other treatises, his oeuvre is considered “the first literary formulation of the aesthetic and scientific theories of the Renaissance on architecture, painting and sculpture.” – PMM 28
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