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Leon Battista Alberti : master builder of the Italian Renaissance
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- Creator
- Anthony Grafton
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
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- First edition
- New York : Hill and Wang, 2000
- Physical Details
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- xi, 417 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780809097524, 0809097524
- OCLC
- ocm43728987
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [343]-401) and index.
- I. Who Was Leon Battista Alberti? Making an Identity in the 1430s -- II. Humanism: The Advantages and Disadvantages of Scholarship -- III. From New Technologies to Fine Arts: Alberti Among the Engineers -- IV. On Painting: Alberti and the Origins of Criticism -- V. Interpreting Florence: From Reading to Rebuilding -- VI. The Artist at Court: Alberti in Ferrara -- VII. His Lost City: Alberti the Antiquary -- VIII. Alberti on the Art of Building -- IX. The Architect and City Planner