On Painting

Leon Battista Alberti; Martin Kemp (Editor); Cecil Grayson (Translator); Leon Battista Alberti

Artist, architect, poet and philosopher, Leon Battista Alberti revolutionized the history of art with his theories of perspective in On Painting (1435). Inspired by the order and beauty inherent in nature, his groundbreaking work sets out the principles of distance, dimension and proportion; instructs t...