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Lives of seventy of the most eminent painters, sculptors and architects (1896)
Lives of seventy of the most eminent painters sculptors and architects - 1896 Author:Giorgio Vasari Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: LEON BATTISTA ALBERTI, FLORENTINE ARCHITECT l [Born 1404; died 1472.] Bibliography.— Mancini, Vita di Leon Battista Alberti, Florence, 1882. Mancini, Nuov... more »i Documents s Notaic . . . di Leon Battista Alberti, Florence, 1887. Anicio Bonucci, Opere volgari, di Leon Ilattista Alberti (5 vols.), Florence, 1845. Clementini, Racolta Storiea, Rimini, 1817. C. Yriarte, Un Condotticre au A" Vnu Sliele a Rimini, Paris, 188S. G. B. Costa, 11 Tempio di S. Franccsco. Braghirolli, L. Jti. Alberti a Mantova, 1869. Hoffmann, Studicn zu L. B. Alberti's zehn Buchcrn de Re Aedifl- catoria. Passerini, OH Alberti di Fireiue, Florence, 1870. II Janitschek, Leon Battista AlberlFs kleinere kunsttheoretische Schriften, Vienna, 1877. M. Claudius Popclin, De la Statue et de la Peinture; has translated into French (Paris, 1S69), the treatises on painting and sculpture. Passerini, Genealogia e storia dei Rucellai. G. Marcotti, Un Jfereante florentino, taken from the Zibaldone (Miscellaneous Notes), autograph manuscript of Giovanni Rucel- lai, in the possession of Mr. Temple-Leader. Opera inedita et pauca separatim impreia II. Mancini Curante, Florence, 1890. Carlo Giuseppe Fossati, Tempio Malatestiano de' Francescani di Rimini; architeetura di Leon BatlMa Alberti, Foligno, 1794. C. Popelin, Leon Battista Alberti in the Oazette dei Beaux Arts, XXV., p. 403. THE knowledge of letters and the study of the sciences are, without doubt, of the utmost value to all, and offer the most important advantages to every artist who takes pleasure therein; but most of all are they serviceable to sculptors, painters, and architects, for whom i The Alberti were great Florentine nobles, "seeming rather princes," says Hachiavelli, " than a private family." They were exiled by their enemies, the Albizzi. In 1412 two tho...« less