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El tratado de la pintura por Leonardo (...). 1827.

El tratado de la pintura por Leonardo de Vinci, y los tres libros que sobre el mismo arte escribió Leon Bautista Alberti. Traducidos e ilustrados con algunas notas por Don Diego Antonio Rejón de Silva. Madrid. Imprenta Real. 1827.


Quarto (26.6 x 19 cm / 10.47 x 7.48 in) Frontis, Title page, 11 sheets, plate with portrait of L. de Vinci, XVIII, 266 pp, with 40 plates full page. Bound in vintage pasta with a shingle on its spine. Very good copy. Palau n. 369699. Second edition in Spanish, the first was published in 1784.


This volume brings together the thoughts of two artists and intellectuals of the Italian Renaissance, the great Leonardo da Vinci, and the architect Leon Battista Alberti. Of the first, his reflections on painting, which were collected after his death and published as a Treatise on painting in Paris in 1651. As for the work of Leon Battista Alberti, it includes his three books on painting published for the first time time in 1436; the initial referring to the form, the colors and the light; the second on artistic theory, and the third on the training and way of life of the artist, who is no longer a craftsman as before, since his art was based on technique, but rather intellectual since his art is based on mathematics and geometry.


Leonardo da Vinci (Vinci, 1452 -Amboise, 1519) was a Florentine polymath of the Italian Renaissance. He is a painter, anatomist, architect, paleontologist, artist, botanist, scientist, writer, sculptor, philosopher, engineer, inventor, musician, poet, and urban planner.


Leon Battista Alberti (Genoa, Italy, 1404 - Rome, 1472) was an architect, personal secretary (apostolic abbreviation) of three popes -Eugene IV, Nicholas V and Pius II-, Italian humanist, treatise writer, mathematician and poet. In addition to these main activities, he was also a cryptographer, linguist, philosopher, musician, and archaeologist; one of the most versatile and important humanists of the Renaissance.



S.O.H-XII-EHM

AUTHOR DA VINCI, L. - ALBERTI, LEÓN B.

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