Title On the art of building in ten books / Leon Battista Alberti ; translated by Joseph Rykwert, Neil Leach, and Robert Tavernor

Published Cambridge, Mass. : M.I.T. Press, [1988] ©1988

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Description xxiii, 442 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm Contents Book one: Lineaments -- Book two: Materials -- Book three: Construction -- Book Four: Public works -- Book five: Works of individuals -- Book six: Ornament -- Book seven: Ornament to sacred buildings -- Book eight: Ornament to public secular buildings -- Book nine: Ornament to private buildings -- Book ten: Restoration of buildings Summary Alberti set out to replace Vitruvius' authority which had been undisputed for over a thousand years and frames a coherent account of the fragmented knowledge of antique architecture as it had survived through the dark and middle ages. His is the one book that established architecture as an intellectual and professional discipline rather than a craft and gave it a proper theoretical context. It provided a theoretical basis for the architecture of the Renaissance Analysis Architecture History Architecture - Early works Architecture History Notes Includes index Translation of: De re aedificatoria Bibliography Bibliography: pages 417-419 Notes Translation of: De re aedificatoria Subject Architecture -- Early works to 1800. LC no. 87026271 ISBN 0262010992 026251060X (paperback)

Other Titles De re aedificatoria. English

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