Main entry:

Grafton, Anthony.

Title & Author:

Leon Battista Alberti : master builder of the Italian Renaissance / Anthony Grafton.

Edition:

1st ed.

Publication:

New York : Hill and Wang, 2000.

Description:

xi, 417 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
I. Who Was Leon Battista Alberti? Making an Identity in the 1430s -- II. Humanism: The Advantages and Disadvantages of Scholarship -- III. From New Technologies to Fine Arts: Alberti Among the Engineers -- IV. On Painting: Alberti and the Origins of Criticism -- V. Interpreting Florence: From Reading to Rebuilding -- VI. The Artist at Court: Alberti in Ferrara -- VII. His Lost City: Alberti the Antiquary -- VIII. Alberti on the Art of Building -- IX. The Architect and City Planner.

Resources:
Contributor biographical information
Publisher description

ISBN:

0809097524 (alk. paper)
9780809097524 (alk. paper)

Subject:

Alberti, Leon Battista, 1404-1472.
Alberti, Leon Battista 1404-1472
Alberti, Leon Battista, (1404-1472)
Alberti, Leon Battista.
Architects Italy Biography.
Architectes Italie Biographies.
Architects.
Architects Italy 15th century.
Architectes Italie Renaissance Biographies.
Italy.

Form/genre:

Biography
Biographies.
collective biographies.
Biografie.

Added entries:

Alberti, Leon Battista, 1404-1472.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 212880
Call No.: NA44.A334.9 G68 2000
Status: Available