Series: Classics of the theory of architecture. Translations by V.P. Zubov and F.A. Petrovsky. Ornamentation of the book by the artist I.F. Rehrberg. Moscow Publishing House of the All-Union Academy of Architecture. 1935. XXXII.+ 392 p. Solid publishing fabric binding. Encyclopedic format. Leon Battista Alberti (1404-1472) was an Italian humanist, Doctor of Canon Law, in the diversity of interests covering the humanities and the exact sciences, economics, philosophy, poetry, music, painting, sculpture, architecture was an example of an ideal 'renaissance personality', comparable only to Leonardo da Vinci. "Ten books on architecture" is considered an encyclopedic document. The presented book is the first known architectural treatise since Vitruvius. In the fourteen centuries separating Alberti from Vitruvius, we do not yet know a single literary document on European architecture. The text of the treatise is prefaced by a fragment of an anonymous biography of Alberti (translated by F.A. Petrovsky, translated from Latin by Bonucci edition)
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