2004, English, Book edition: The two parallel realities of Alberti and Cennini : the power of writing and the visual arts in the Italian Quattrocento / Latifah Troncelliti. Troncelliti, Latifah.

Two parallel reality of Alberti and Cennini: the power of composition and visual art in Italy

This paper contains an analysis of all the techniques and painting theory known at the time, which is beyond medieval works like the art book of Cennino Cennini (1390). De pictura also includes the initial explanation of linear geometric perspective around 1416; Alberti attributed this discovery to Brunelleschi and devoted him the 1435 version. Alberti considers a large number of historical paintings to be the most sublime art. That is because it is the most difficult and needs to master all other forms. He emphasizes the ability to describe the interaction between characters through gestures and expressions.

Leon Battista Alberti or Leone Battista Alberti (February 14, 1404 - 25 April 1472) was an Italian writer, poet, linguist, architect, philosopher, cryptologist and general Renaissance blogger. In Italy, his name is usually the spelling of Leon. The life of Alberti is written in Vite (Artist's Life) of Giorgio Vasari. Alberti studied teaching at Bologna University and accepted a sacred command to work for the Pope and Canon, but he was most interested in mathematics, art and classical architecture. In 1435, Alberti wrote the first general paper on perspective, De pictura (On Painting). De Re aedificatoria (1452, Ten Books on Architecture) patterned by Roman architect and engineer after de architecture is the first architectural paper of Renaissance, a wide range of topics ranging from history to urban planning and engineering It covered. . Philosophy of beauty