De pictura (English: "On Painting") is a treatise or commentarii written by the Italian humanist and artist Leon Battista Alberti. The first version, composed...
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which my subject is concerned." Della pittura (also known in Latin as De Pictura) relied on the study classical optics to approach the perspective in artistic...
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by his own measurements, the drawings of his contemporaries, and the De pictura treatise by Leon Battista Alberti. Leonardo produced the Vitruvian Man...
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Alberti first introduced the concept in his treatise on perspective in art, De pictura, written in 1435. Straight railroad tracks are a familiar modern example...
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"Alberti Before Florence: Early Sources Informing Leon Battista Alberti’s De pictura", led to him being awarded his doctorate in 2014. Weller's stage career...
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Leonardo da Vinci (redirect from Leonardo de Vinci)
scientific study of light. These studies and Leon Battista Alberti's treatise De pictura were to have a profound effect on younger artists and in particular on...
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foundation for perspective in Europe. Piero della Francesca elaborated on De pictura in his De Prospectiva pingendi in the 1470s, making many references to Euclid...
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Canon Vitruvius De architectura Renaissance Filippo Brunelleschi Leon Battista Alberti De pictura De re aedificatoria Piero della Francesca De prospectiva...
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least to the works of Leon Battista Alberti (1404–1472): De re aedificatoria, De statua, De pictura, which focused on the importance of the intellectual skills...
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is very close to one adapting Seneca by Leon Battista Alberti in his De pictura (1435), which Botticelli certainly knew. From the left they are identified...
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ANATOL STATI. Magnatul petrolier VIP Magazin, Nicoleta Stati. Profesoara de pictură VIP Magazin, Gabriel Stati. Despre lumea din jurul său Gabriel Stati Gabriel...
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Ut pictura poesis is a Latin phrase literally meaning "as is painting so is poetry". The statement (often repeated) occurs most famously in Horace's Ars...
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He dedicated himself to the three "major arts": De pictura in 1436, De re aedificatoria in 1454 and De statua in 1462. His writings served as the basis...
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Salvator Mundi (Leonardo) (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
Cologne, Germany: Taschen. ISBN 978-3-8365-7625-3. Alberti, Leon Battista. De Pictura. (Trans. Grayson). Phaidon. London. 1964. p. 63-4 Allsop, Laura (7 November...
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recommended it as a subject for artists to recreate in his highly influential De pictura of 1435, and there were four translations of Lucian's Greek into Latin...
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genres, and considered the equivalent to the epic in literature. In his De Pictura of 1436, Leon Battista Alberti had argued that multi-figure history painting...
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primaries yellow, green, blue and red, and was supported by Alberti in his "De Pictura" (1436), using the rectangle, rhombus, and color wheel to represent them...
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Alberti made studies of linear perspective. In 1436 Alberti published De pictura ("On Painting"), which includes his findings on linear perspective. Piero...
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August 14, 2024. "Ioan Sbârciu, atac la Școala de pictură băimăreană. A sbârcit-o!" (in Romanian). Gazeta de Maramureș. March 19, 2013. Retrieved July 28...
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publication of two treatises by Leone Battista Alberti, De pictura ("On Painting") in 1435 and De re aedificatoria ("Ten Books on Architecture") in 1452...
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being introduced into the artistic world. Alberti explained in his 1435 De pictura: "light rays travel in straight lines from points in the observed scene...
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colours De prospectiva pingendi was probably created in the years between 1474 until 1482. The writings were inspired by the book De pictura by Leon Battista...
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for pictorial art in these years, ultimately enshrined in his treatise De pictura. As Paolucci writes, the workshop that produced these doors was “the meeting...
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behind perspective. Decades later, his friend Leon Battista Alberti wrote De pictura (1435/1436), a treatise on proper methods of showing distance in painting...
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Borsi, Alberti is deriving his viewpoint from the Enneads by Plotinus. De pictura De architectura I quattro libri dell'architettura Cecil Grayson, in Kunstkronik...
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It was the only modern (post-classical) work described in Alberti's De Pictura. Such a large depiction of a maritime scene was unprecedented in marine...
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Andersen, the first author to describe perspectivity was Leon Alberti in his De Pictura (1435). In English, Brook Taylor presented his Linear Perspective in 1715...
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neglected. Major works include: 1637, De pictura veterum translated as On the Painting of the Ancients in 1638, and as De Schilder-konst der Oude begrepen...
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Albrecht Dürer (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
artistic centres of Europe within a very few years. The Venetian artist Jacopo de' Barbari, whom Dürer had met in Venice, visited Nuremberg in 1500, and Dürer...
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the sculptor, who could do so merely by recording appearances. In his De Pictura ("About Painting") of 1441, Alberti argued that multi-figure history painting...
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