The ten books of architecture : the 1755 Leoni edition / Leon Battista Alberti ; translated into Italian by Cosimo Bartoli ; translated into English by James Leoni.

Main entry:

Alberti, Leon Battista, 1404-1472.

Title & Author:

The ten books of architecture : the 1755 Leoni edition / Leon Battista Alberti ; translated into Italian by Cosimo Bartoli ; translated into English by James Leoni.

Publication:

New York : Dover Publications, 1986.

Description:

240 pages, 64 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 29 cm

Notes:
Translation of: De re aedificatoria.
Reprint. Originally published: The architecture of Leon Batista [sic] Alberti in ten books. London : R. Alfray, 1755.

Summary:

"Beautifully illustrated magnum opus of great Renaissance theorist who reintroduced the glories of ancient architecture and applied musical and mathematical principles to achieve perfection of proportion in architectural design. Reprinted from extremely rare British edition. 68 black-and-white plates"--Publisher description.

Resources:
Publisher description

ISBN:

0486252396 (pbk.)
9780486252391 (pbk.)

Subject:

Alberti, Leon Battista, 1404-1472
Architecture Early works to 1800.
Architecture Ouvrages avant 1800.
Architecture
Bouwkunst.
Arquitetura da renascença Itália.
ARCHITETTURA Trattati
Italian Architects.
Architectural theory.

Form/genre:

Treatises.
Early works

Added entries:

Bartoli, Cosimo, 1503-1572, translator.
Leoni, Giacomo, approximately 1686-1746.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 150610
Call No.: NA44.A334.A63 1986
Status: Available

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