Leon Battista Alberti: Over de bouwkunst
Leon Battista Alberti
Boom, 2022
€49,90
Until the nineteenth century, Architecture was regarded as the fundamental book of Western architecture. It was the first architectural treatise to appear in print (in 1585) and it was the basis for a long line of architectural treatises of later centuries, such as those of Serlio, Palladio and Scamozzi.
Leon Battista Alberti, born in Genoa in 1404, was one of the main figures of the Italian Renaissance. He was a writer, philosopher, painter and architect, and theorist of architecture, painting and sculpture. His De re aedificatoria (On Architecture) from 1452 can be seen as a counterpart to the Ten Books on Architecture by the Roman architect Vitruvius and is regarded as the starting point of the architectural theory of the Renaissance.
Alberti emphasized that architecture is not a craft, but an intellectual discipline and a social art, for which two skills are indispensable: painting and mathematics. The architecture had to reflect the social and political order of society. Alberti, for example, developed proposals for new, modern building types, including prisons and hospitals. IN DUTCH!
ISBN: 9789024446827
