{"product_id":"leon-battista-alberti-in-exile-tracing-the-path-to-the-first-modern-book-on-painting-hardback-9781009548663","title":"Leon Battista Alberti in Exile; Tracing the Path to the First Modern Book on Painting (Hardback) 9781009548663","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eLeon Battista Alberti in Exile\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eTracing the Path to the First Modern Book on Painting\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eShows how Alberti merged the most conspicuous cultural developments of early modern Italy – visual art and humanism – to create De pictura\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003ePeter Weller (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781009548663, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 6 March 2025\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e400 pages\u003cbr\u003e26 x 18.7 x 2.6 cm, 0.99 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e'A sort of origin story for art history in the modern sense, 'Alberti in Exile' makes you think of what came before and what the future may bring in the one constant in this world: art.' Mat Bradley-Tschirgi, The Film-Flam Man\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eThe prodigy poet, playwright, architect, painter, and humanist savant Leon Battista Alberti emerged in 1435 with De pictura ['On Painting'], the modern era's earliest discourse on Western art, written in classical Latin by an ostensible practitioner of the craft. Alberti has captivated the art world from his own epoch to ours, and his dubious Florentine identity enables this allure. In this volume, Peter Weller challenges the popular notion that De pictura's compendium on lines, points, mathematics, composition, narrative, and portraiture is primarily the result of Alberti's return to Florence and his short exposure to its visual art. Weller argues that Rome, Padua, Bologna, and northern Europe – environs where Alberti studied, worked, and lived during exile – empowered his paramount intellectual-artistic gift. Scrutiny of Alberti's evolution before Florence illuminates how this original Renaissance man merged the two most conspicuous cultural developments of early modern Italy – visual art and humanism — to create De pictura, our first modern book on painting.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePreface\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e Preliminaries: 'the Florence problem'\u003cbr\u003e Introduction\u003cbr\u003e 1. Padua: historical realm and intellectual culture\u003cbr\u003e 2. Alberti in Padua I: intellectual evolution (c. 1412–1420)\u003cbr\u003e 3. Alberti in Padua II: visual evolution (c. 1412–1420)\u003cbr\u003e 4. Alberti in Bologna (c. 1421–1428?)\u003cbr\u003e 5. Alberti in Rome (c. late 1420s–1434)\u003cbr\u003e 6. Finalities: Florence (finally)\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography\u003cbr\u003e Index.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: The arts: general issues [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on The arts: general issues\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22The%20arts:%20general%20issues%20%5BAB%5D%22\"\u003eAB\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52472076796184,"sku":"9781009548663","price":80.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/files\/9781009548663i.jpg?v=1785716196","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/leon-battista-alberti-in-exile-tracing-the-path-to-the-first-modern-book-on-painting-hardback-9781009548663","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}