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Paperback: 432 pages
Publisher: Harvard University Press (April 15, 2002)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0674008685
ISBN-13: 978-0674008687
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9 x 6 x 1.2 inches
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Editorial Reviews From Publishers Weekly one of the greatest geniuses of the Renaissance, Alberti was a masterpiece of historic architecture and a creator of some of the lasting monuments of his time philosophy for dummies pdf. A writer and courtier, he took all the activities of the 15th Century Italian "universal man", including a great athlete philosophy for dummies pdf. To track and report on what it takes to reach a superman of a historian. Princeton history professor Grafton (defender of the text note, etc.) says modestly. "No historian knows all fields interestAor Alberti even a majority of the hand near Themaat" Nevertheless, this book is an admirably clear view of the creative efforts of Alberti, it is difficult, from another writer who would do better to think. Alberti worked as a temple of the Malatesta of Rimini, the Basilica of Santa Maria Novella in Florence and the church of San Sebastiano in Mantua are described concisely, boring with a refreshing lack of jargon of art history. There are some particularly insightful comments on Alberti as a writer, not just the famous treatise on the art of building, known to all students of architecture, but also less known, so long as satire, Momus. One passage from this latest book is aptly described as screaming "weird Brechtian" for his portrayal of a beggar on the street. Alberti poetic fables are highlighted for their moral melancholy, like "you think it is easy to work, at what age has to do with maturity?" He's strong, historically based on the chapter "The architect and city planner for the City, "" The artist at the court "and" new technologies to the Fine Arts. "There are also details of the human psychological Alberti, idealized in the previous descriptions of how the study of Jacob Burckhardt known. autobiographical writings, as shown in Grafton, as Alberti portray tormented by doubt, depression, sadness and fear. Despite the humanization of these materials, Alberti does not like a superman, if it could reach even for large quantities. This book is useful for anyone interested in Italian Renaissance in architecture, literature and painting, and win new fans for Grafton and purpose lllus not seen by PW (Oct.) Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc. -... This text refers to the Paperback edition.
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