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De pictura (English: "On Painting") is a treatise or commentarii written by the Italian humanist and artist Leon Battista Alberti. The first version, composed in Latin in 1435, was not published until 1450.
De re aedificatoria (On the Art of Building) is a classic architectural treatise written by Leon Battista Alberti between 1443 and 1452. [1] Although largely dependent on Vitruvius's De architectura, it was the first theoretical book on the subject written in the Italian Renaissance, and in 1485 it became the first printed book on architecture ...
Leon Battista Alberti is a major character in Roberto Rossellini's three-part television film The Age of the Medici (1973), with the third and final part, Leon Battista Alberti: Humanism, centering on him, his works (such as Santa Maria Novella), and his thought. He is played by Italian actor Virginio Gazzolo.
The main aim of the treatise was to argue that painting was a science. [1] [2] Leonardo's keen observation of expression and character is evidenced in his comparison of laughing and weeping, about which he notes that the only difference between the two emotions in terms of the "motion of the [facial] features" is "the ruffling of the brows, which is added in weeping, but more elevated and ...
The artist Peter Paul Rubens painted in Belgium between 1609-1621, working for many royal patrons from his studio in Antwerp. Rubens' house in Antwerp, the Rubenshuis , is now a museum. Anthony van Dyck , celebrated for his painting of British court, including Charles I , was born in Antwerp.
The Pace Collection was a high-end contemporary furniture company in business from 1960 to 2001. The company was founded by Irving and Leon Rosen in New York City.The showroom was located in Manhattan on East 62nd Street to offer its fine furniture and services to the contract interior design trade.
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The painting became famous almost overnight with critics of the Salon speculating about Gerome's sources for the incident depicted in the painting. [1] (The theme seems to have been in fashion; Thomas Couture dealt with the same subject in 1857 with Le Duel après le bal masqué, now in the Wallace Collection).