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Figure from the 1804 edition of Della picture showing the vanishing point Rendition of Alberti's description of how a circle projected as an ellipse Figure showing pillars in perspective on a grid. De pictura (English: "On Painting") is a treatise or commentarii written by the Italian humanist and artist Leon Battista Alberti. The first version ...
De prospectiva pingendi (On the Perspective of Painting) is the earliest and only pre-1500 Renaissance treatise solely devoted to the subject of perspective. [1] It was written by the Italian master Piero della Francesca in the mid-1470s to 1480s, [2] and possibly by about 1474. [3] Despite its Latin title, the opus is written in Italian.
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 brother of Alessandro and Cherubino Alberti, and third son of Alberto, he was born at Borgo S. Sepolcro. [1] He went to Rome during the papacy of Gregory XIII, who employed him in the papal palace on Monte Cavallo, and in the Vatican. He excelled in painting landscapes and perspective, in which the figures were usually painted by Cherubino.
Piotr Filipovich Alberti (Russian: Пéтр Фили́ппович Альбе́рти; November 25, 1913 – October 7, 1994) was a Soviet, Russian painter, lived and worked in Leningrad, regarded as one of representatives of the Leningrad school of painting.
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Leon Battista Alberti (Italian: [leombatˈtista alˈbɛɾti]; 14 February 1404 – 25 April 1472) was an Italian Renaissance humanist author, artist, architect, poet, priest, linguist, philosopher, and cryptographer; he epitomised the nature of those identified now as polymaths.
This article about the development of themes in Italian Renaissance painting is an extension to the article Italian Renaissance painting, for which it provides additional pictures with commentary. The works encompassed are from Giotto in the early 14th century to Michelangelo 's Last Judgement of the 1530s.