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Author | : Jason Arkles |
Publisher | : Lulu.com |
Total Pages | : 88 |
Release | : 2013-04-24 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 1300965851 |
This translation of Leon Battista Alberti's treatise on the art of sculpting is presented as the author himself intended - as a practical sculpture manual meant to be read and utilized by practitioners of the craft. In recent times On Sculpture has been published and critiqued as an historical and literary document; Jason Arkles' translation instead offers commentary helpful for understanding the actual content of the work and its relation to contemporary studio practice. Additional illustrations and diagrams are included, detailing the construction and use of the 'diffinitore', Alberti's device for measuring the model that is the grandfather of all pointing machines in use today.
Author | : Leon Battista Alberti |
Publisher | : MIT Press |
Total Pages | : 484 |
Release | : 1991-07-01 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 9780262510608 |
De Re Aedificatoria, by Leon Battista Alberti (1404-1472), was the first modern treatise on the theory and practice of architecture. Its importance for the subsequent history of architecture is incalculable, yet this is the first English translation based on the original, exceptionally eloquent Latin text on which Alberti's reputation as a theorist is founded.
Author | : Leon Battista Alberti |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 231 |
Release | : 2011-05-09 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 1107000629 |
In this volume Rocco Sinisgalli presents a new English translation and critical examination of Alberti's seminal text.
Author | : Leon Battista Alberti |
Publisher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 148 |
Release | : 1966-01-01 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 9780300000016 |
Alberti’s Della Pittura was the first modern analytical study of painting, a pioneering treatise on the theory of art. A systematic description of the one-point perspective construction, it was primarily designed to persuade both patron and painter in the Renaissance to discard the old tastes in painting for the new. John R. Spencer's translation of Della Pittura is based on all the known manuscripts and is edited with an Introduction and Notes.
Author | : Robert Tavernor |
Publisher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 302 |
Release | : 1998-01-01 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 9780300076158 |
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.
Author | : Anthony Grafton |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 436 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 9780674008687 |
The Visual Poetics of Raymond Carver draws on the study of visual arts to illuminate the short stories of noted author Raymond Carver, in the broader context of vision and visualization in a literary text. Ayala Amir examines Carver's use of the eye-of-the-camera technique. Amir uncovers the tensions that structure his visual aesthetics and examines assumptions that govern scholarly discussions of his work, relating these matters to the complex nature of photography and to the current "visual turn"of cultural studies. The research uses visual approaches to reflect upon traditional issues of narrative study-duration, dialogue, narration, description, frame, character, and meaning. Amir shows how Carver's visual aesthetics shapes the meaning of his stories, while also challenging accepted notions of the boundaries of "the literary."
Author | : Leon Battista Alberti |
Publisher | : Phaidon Press |
Total Pages | : 178 |
Release | : 1972 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : |
This volume makes available the texts of two of his major works of artistic theory, which in part reflected and in part determined the practice of painting and sculpture and which are fundamental for the understanding of the theory and practice of Italian Renaissance art. In spite of their long acknowledge importance and frequent use, the texts themselves have remained comparatively neglected and not infreaquently misunderstood. -- Book Jacket.
Author | : Dr Charles H Carman |
Publisher | : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd. |
Total Pages | : 215 |
Release | : 2014-08-28 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 1472429257 |
Providing a fresh evaluation of Alberti’s text On Painting (1435), along with comparisons to various works of Nicholas Cusanus - particularly his Vision of God (1450) - this study reveals a shared epistemology of vision. And, the author argues, it is one that reflects a more deeply Christian Neoplatonic ideal than is typically accorded Alberti. Whether regarding his purpose in teaching the use of a geometric single point perspective system, or more broadly in rendering forms naturalistically, the emphasis leans toward the ideal of Renaissance art as highly rational. There remains the impression that the principle aim of the painter is to create objective, even illusionistic images. A close reading of Alberti’s text, however, including some adjustments in translation, points rather towards an emphasis on discerning the spiritual in the material. Alberti’s use of the tropes Minerva and Narcissus, for example, indicates the opposing characteristics of wisdom and sense certainty that function dialectically to foster the traditional importance of seeing with the eye of the intellect rather than merely with physical eyes. In this sense these figures also set the context for his, and, as the author explains, Brunelleschi’s earlier invention of this perspective system that posits not so much an objective seeing as an opposition of finite and infinite seeing, which, moreover, approximates Cusanus’s famous notion of a coincidence of opposites. Together with Alberti’s and Cusanus’s ideals of vision, extensive analysis of art works discloses a ubiquitous commitment to stimulating an intellectual perception of divine, essential, and unseen realities that enliven the visible material world.
Author | : Mark Jarzombek |
Publisher | : MIT Press (MA) |
Total Pages | : 290 |
Release | : 1989 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : |
Listen to Alberti's voice. This is what Mark Jarzombek has done in studying virtually all of Alberti's writings on philosophy, ethics, aesthetics architecture, and literature.
Author | : Jack C. Rich |
Publisher | : Courier Corporation |
Total Pages | : 511 |
Release | : 1988-01-01 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 0486257428 |
"Promises to become a standard reference book." — The Art Digest. Exhaustive, profusely illustrated guide to all of the technical aspects of sculpting in stone, metal, wood, and other materials. The author expertly covers casting, surface treatment, exotic materials such as amber, coal, and even butter! Much more. 281 illustrations.