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On Sculpture by Leon Battista Alberti

Author : Jason Arkles
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1300965851
Total Pages : 88 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book On Sculpture by Leon Battista Alberti written by Jason Arkles and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2013-04-24 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

On the Art of Building in Ten Books

Author : Leon Battista Alberti
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 9780262510608
Total Pages : 484 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (16 download)

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Download or read book On the Art of Building in Ten Books written by Leon Battista Alberti and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 1991-07-01 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

On Painting and On Sculpture

Author : Leon Battista Alberti
Publisher : Phaidon Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 178 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book On Painting and On Sculpture written by Leon Battista Alberti and published by Phaidon Press. This book was released on 1972 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Leon Battista Alberti: On Painting

Author : Leon Battista Alberti
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107000629
Total Pages : 231 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book Leon Battista Alberti: On Painting written by Leon Battista Alberti and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2011-05-09 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this volume Rocco Sinisgalli presents a new English translation and critical examination of Alberti's seminal text.

On Painting

Author : Leon Battista Alberti
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780300000016
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)

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Download or read book On Painting written by Leon Battista Alberti and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1966-01-01 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Leon Battista Alberti

Author : Anthony Grafton
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674008687
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (86 download)

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Download or read book Leon Battista Alberti written by Anthony Grafton and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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."

Sculpting From Life - A Studio Manual of the Sight-Size Method

Author : Jason Arkles
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781430311560
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (115 download)

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Download or read book Sculpting From Life - A Studio Manual of the Sight-Size Method written by Jason Arkles and published by . This book was released on 2007-07-29 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first and only instructional manual written about the sight-size method as applied to sculpture. The blossoming Atelier Tradition in the United States and abroad has changed the way contemporary artists are trained, but scant attention had been paid to how figurative sculpture fits into this tradition, until now. 157 pages and over 200 illustrations guide the reader through every aspect of figurative clay modelling, including bas relief work, portraiture, and figure modeling, how to equip and outfit a studio, how to hire and use models, and more. The sight-size method is a strikingly different approach to clay sculpture than is offered by any other how-to manual. Combining optical principles and studio practice dating back five centuries and passed from Master to Apprentice right down to the Author himself, the sight-size method is a philosophy of perception as much as a powerful tool for the sculptor. Written for teachers and students alike.

On Alberti and the Art of Building

Author : Robert Tavernor
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780300076158
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (761 download)

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Download or read book On Alberti and the Art of Building written by Robert Tavernor and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1998-01-01 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

On Leon Baptista Alberti

Author : Mark Jarzombek
Publisher : MIT Press (MA)
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book On Leon Baptista Alberti written by Mark Jarzombek and published by MIT Press (MA). This book was released on 1989 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Leon Battista Alberti and Nicholas Cusanus

Author : Dr Charles H Carman
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 1472429257
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (724 download)

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Download or read book Leon Battista Alberti and Nicholas Cusanus written by Dr Charles H Carman and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2014-08-28 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

The Materials and Methods of Sculpture

Author : Jack C. Rich
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 0486257428
Total Pages : 511 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (862 download)

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Download or read book The Materials and Methods of Sculpture written by Jack C. Rich and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 1988-01-01 with total page 511 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "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.

Sculpture

Author : Louis Slobodkin
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 9780486229607
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (296 download)

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Download or read book Sculpture written by Louis Slobodkin and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 1973-01-01 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers advice on using tools and constructing armatures as well as shaping human figures, portrait heads, and bas reliefs from clay, plaster, wood, stone, and metal

Leon Battista Alberti

Author : Caspar Pearson
Publisher : Reaktion Books
ISBN 13 : 1789145228
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (891 download)

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Download or read book Leon Battista Alberti written by Caspar Pearson and published by Reaktion Books. This book was released on 2022-07-06 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new account of the sui generis Renaissance writer and architect Leon Battista Alberti. One of the most brilliant and original authors and architects of the entire Renaissance, Leon Battista Alberti had an output encompassing engineering, surveying, cryptography, poetry, humor, political commentary, and more. He employed irony, satire, and playful allusion in his written works, and developed a sophisticated approach to architecture that combined the ancient and modern. Born into the Florentine elite, Alberti was nonetheless disadvantaged due to exile and illegitimacy. As a result, he became an acute analyst of the social institutions of his time, as well as a profoundly existential writer who was intensely preoccupied with the human condition. This new account explores Alberti’s life and works, examining how his personal and intellectual preoccupations continually pushed him to engage with an ever-broader spectrum of Renaissance culture.

The Ten Books of Architecture

Author : Leon Battista Alberti
Publisher : Courier Dover Publications
ISBN 13 : 9780486252391
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (523 download)

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Download or read book The Ten Books of Architecture written by Leon Battista Alberti and published by Courier Dover Publications. This book was released on 1986 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Modelling and Sculpture

Author : Albert Toft
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 048614528X
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (861 download)

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Download or read book Modelling and Sculpture written by Albert Toft and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2012-12-04 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Give(s) in detail every process and method of the sculptor's craft with a fullness to be found in no other works." — Encyclopedia Britannica A student of the great Edouard Lanteri and a celebrated sculptor in his own right, Albert Toft created this manual to offer students every practical detail necessary for a complete knowledge of modeling and sculpture. Both professionals and amateurs will find Toft's experienced guidance a valuable help in surmounting difficulties and avoiding errors. Topics include: •Modelling a portrait bust •Casting •Modelling for terra-cotta, in relief, and for bronze •Modelling in clay as a prelude to working in stone and wood Thirty-six plates and eighty-two line illustrations enhance this manual, and a helpful glossary defines the most common terms.

Leon Battista Alberti: On Painting

Author : Leon Battista Alberti
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107377765
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (73 download)

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Download or read book Leon Battista Alberti: On Painting written by Leon Battista Alberti and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-07-25 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Leon Battista Alberti was one of the most important humanist scholars of the Italian Renaissance. Active in mid-fifteenth-century Florence, he was an architect, theorist, and author of texts on perspective and painting. Leon Battista Alberti: On Painting is a cardinal work that revolutionized Western art. In this volume Rocco Sinisgalli presents a new English translation and critical examination of Alberti's seminal text. Dr Sinisgalli reverses the received understanding of the relationship between the Italian and Latin versions of Alberti's treatise by demonstrating that Alberti wrote it first in Italian and then translated it into a polished Latin over the course of several decades. This volume is richly illustrated to help demonstrate how Alberti understood optics and art.

The Word made Visible in the Painted Image

Author : Stephen Miller
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1443886750
Total Pages : 158 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (438 download)

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Download or read book The Word made Visible in the Painted Image written by Stephen Miller and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2015-11-25 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the areas of perspective, proportion, witness and theological threshold in the devotional art of the Italian Renaissance, with particular reference to the painted image of Christ. While the Incarnation, in a very real way, legitimised the idea of the portrayal of God in human form (as Jesus Christ), problems remained as to how this might be achieved and whether it should be restricted to the second person of the Holy Trinity. This book looks at the creation of pictorial space and the presentation of the image – paying special attention to schemes of perspective, as a way to better describe reality, as well as to considerations of proportion through such geometric methodology as the Golden Section and dynamic root-rectangles (based on certain ‘perfect’ or divine ratios) to balance and harmonise form. The Word Made Visible in the Painted Image also explores the theological theme of threshold and liminal space, describes how themes such as the Incarnation and Revelation were represented, and looks at the symbolism employed in so doing. It shows how such themes were captured, set in space and communicated in the painted image. This study is necessarily interdisciplinary, combining the subject areas of art history and theory, theology, biblical study, philosophy, aesthetics, physics, metaphysics, mathematics, geometry, optics, physiology, psychology, and sociology, in greater and lesser degrees. Few books take such an interdisciplinary stance on art, theology, science and related disciplines to this extent.