Art: A History of Painting, Sculpture, and Architecture, Volume 2Prentice-Hall, 1976 - Art |
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... ALBERTI . From the middle of the 1430s , the Renaissance movement , not only in architecture but also in sculpture and painting , fell under the domination of a cultural colossus , Leonbattista Alberti ( 1404-72 ) . This scion of one of ...
... ALBERTI . From the middle of the 1430s , the Renaissance movement , not only in architecture but also in sculpture and painting , fell under the domination of a cultural colossus , Leonbattista Alberti ( 1404-72 ) . This scion of one of ...
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... Alberti ornaments his façade by a superimposed three- story system of screen architecture - pilasters that do no ... Alberti's doctrine that the basic proportions and divisions of the wall belong to beauty , defined as " the harmony and ...
... Alberti ornaments his façade by a superimposed three- story system of screen architecture - pilasters that do no ... Alberti's doctrine that the basic proportions and divisions of the wall belong to beauty , defined as " the harmony and ...
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... Alberti with those of Brunelleschi , Donatello , Ghiberti , and Masac- cio as founders of the new style . Alberti must have been thinking of Luca's Cantoria ( musicians ' gallery : 1431- 38 ; fig . 50 ) for the Cathedral of Florence ...
... Alberti with those of Brunelleschi , Donatello , Ghiberti , and Masac- cio as founders of the new style . Alberti must have been thinking of Luca's Cantoria ( musicians ' gallery : 1431- 38 ; fig . 50 ) for the Cathedral of Florence ...
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PROLOGUE | 9 |
The Early Renaissance in Northern | 70 |
The High Renaissance in Florence | 117 |
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