Renaissance Lives #: Leon Battista Alberti

The Chameleon's Eye

Renaissance Lives #: Leon Battista Alberti
Caspar Pearson
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Hardback
h216 x 138mm - 256pg
11 Apr 2022 UK
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9781789145212
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One of the most brilliant and original authors and architects of the entire Renaissance, Leon Battista Alberti' s output encompassed engineering, surveying, cryptography, poetry, humour, political commentary and more. He employed irony, satire and playful allusion in his written works, and developed a sophisticated approach to architecture that combined the ancient and modern. Born into the Florentine elite, Alberti was nonetheless disadvantaged due to exile and illegitimacy. As a result, he became an acute analyst of the social institutions of his time, as well as a profoundly existential writer who was intensely preoccupied with the human condition. This new account explores Alberti' s life and works, examining how his personal and intellectual preoccupations continually pushed him to engage with an ever-broader spectrum of Renaissance culture.

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Botticelli: Artist and Designer
Donatello and the Dawn of Renaissance Art
Erasmus of Rotterdam: The Spirit of a Scholar
Filippino Lippi: An Abundance of Invention
Giorgione's Ambiguity
Hans Holbein: Artist in a Changing World
Isaac Newton and Natural Philosophy
John Donne: In the Shadow of Religion
Leon Battista Alberti: The Chameleon's Eye
Leonardo da Vinci: Self Art and Nature
Paracelsus: An Alchemical Life
Petrarch: Everywhere a Wanderer
Piero della Francesca and the Invention of the Artist
Pieter Bruegel and the Idea of Human Nature
Raphael and the Antique
Rembrandt's Holland
Rubens's Spirit: From Ingenuity to Genius
Salvator Rosa: Paint and Performance
Titian's Touch: Art, Magic and Philosophy
Tycho Brahe and the Measure of the Heavens

"Pearson' s book is the best English introduction to Leon Battista Alberti. The volume is more than just a biography: it engages solidly with the literary and technical works of this prolific writer, and takes account of key ideas put forward by scholars in the recent Alberti revival. . . . Enhanced by a generous number of high-quality illustrations, not all of them predictable, Leon Battista Alberti: The Chameleon' s Eye is succinct, admirably clear, and often witty, all qualities of which Alberti himself would have approved. "--Martin McLaughlin, professor emeritus of Italian, University of Oxford
Caspar Pearson is Senior Lecturer in Art History at the Warburg Institute, and the author of Humanism and the Urban World: Leon Battista Alberti and the Renaissance City (2011).
Status: No local stock, title imported to order
ISBN-13: 9781789145212
Published: 11 Apr 2022
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Reaktion Books
Publisher: Reaktion Books
Format: Hardback
Height: 216mm
Width: 138mm
Pages: 256

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