Alberti’s Della Pittura was the first modern analytical study of painting, a pioneering treatise on the theory of art. A systematic description of the one-point perspective construction, it was primarily designed to persuade both patron and painter in the Renaissance to discard the old tastes in painting for the new. John R. Spencer's translation of Della Pittura is based on all the known manuscripts and is edited with an Introduction and Notes.
- ISBN10 0300000014
- ISBN13 9780300000016
- Publish Date 10 September 1967 (first published December 1966)
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 5 April 2024
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Yale University Press
- Format Paperback (US Trade)
- Pages 141
- Language English