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  E-mail Message: I thought you might be interested in this item at http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/38842065 Title: On Alberti and the art of building Author: Robert Tavernor Publisher: New Haven : Yale University Press, ©1998. ISBN/ISSN: 0300076150 9780300076158 OCLC:38842065

  
  

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On Alberti and the art of building

Author:	Robert Tavernor
Publisher:	New Haven : Yale University Press, ©1998.
Edition/Format:	Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
Summary:	Leon Battista Alberti (1404-72) - writer, painter and sculptor, mathematician and, most famously, architectural theorist and architect - came closer than anyone to the Renaissance ideal of the 'complete man'. Recognised by his contemporaries as an extraordinary person, he helped to shape, through his writings and his practical example in the arts, the way in which the natural and artificial world was perceived and represented during the Renaissance. In this book - the first digest of Alberti's architecture to be published for twenty-five years - Robert Tavernor examines a variety of themes: the relationship between the architect and his patrons; his writings on the visual arts and his practical example; his significance for the extension of architectural theory into practice; and his success in raising the status of architecture to an art - one that sought to be in harmony with the natural world. The various building projects with which Alberti is known to have been involved are discussed in detail and placed in approximate chronological order, as well as being described in relation to the role of the patrons and builders and given an historical context.  Read more...
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Subjects	Alberti, Leon Battista, -- 1404-1472 -- Criticism and interpretation. Architecture, Renaissance -- Italy. Architects and patrons -- Italy. View all subjects
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