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Leon Battista Alberti: Master Builder of the Italian Renaissance Paperback – 31 Jan. 2002

by Anthony Grafton (Author)
4.3 out of 5 stars 11 ratings
Leon Battista Alberti (1404-72) was one of the most original, creative and exciting figures of the Italian Renaissance. He wrote the first modern treatise on painting, the first modern manual of classical architecture and a powerful set of 'dialogues' about the patrician families that dominated his home city of Florence. He rediscovered the forgotten aesthetics of classical architecture and described, in incomparably vivid terms, the artistic revolution in Florence that began what we now callthe Renaissance. He made spectacular advances in the art of painting and in engineering, and as an architect he was responsible for some of the most exciting buildings in Italy.
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  1. Print length
    432 pages
  2. Language
    English
  3. Publisher
    Penguin
  4. Publication date
    31 Jan. 2002
  5. Dimensions
    12.8 x 1.9 x 19.8 cm
  6. ISBN-10
    0140291695
  7. ISBN-13
    978-0140291698
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Anthony Grafton is Dodge Professor of History at Princeton University. His last book was 'The Footnote: A Curious History'. He is also writing a study of the original Doctor Faustus for Penguin.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Penguin
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ 31 Jan. 2002
  • Edition ‏ : ‎ New
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 432 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0140291695
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0140291698
  • Item weight ‏ : ‎ 260 g
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 12.8 x 1.9 x 19.8 cm
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  • Customer reviews:
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    5.0 out of 5 stars Arrived in good condition
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  • R. Watkins
    5.0 out of 5 stars Biography of a Renaissance genius by a modern one.
    Reviewed in the United States on 6 February 2011
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    Alberti has left us some architecture and a lot of writing, but it is difficult to build a three dimensional portrait of this man. Anthony Grafton is one of the best modern historians of European thought, and has made full and imaginative use of the documents, giving us a rich sense of Alberti's values and preoccupations. It helps too that Grafton's prose is colloquial and precise at the same time. Enjoy!
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  • joeyc
    4.0 out of 5 stars History not art history classic
    Reviewed in the United States on 1 March 2014
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    Excellent history text so for my
    Purposes it was great background reading. The art history information is not as developed as I had hoped.
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  • Marcella Mack
    2.0 out of 5 stars Very boring
    Reviewed in the United States on 27 August 2023
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    I was looking forward to reading more about Alberti but the writing is so boring and so all over the place that reading it turned into a chore…
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