On painting
Leon Battista Alberti (Author), Martin Kemp, Cecil Grayson (Translator)
"Alberti wrote De Pictura in Latin in 1435 and in true Renaissance spirit made an Italian translation the following year. He unfolds his theories step by step. In Book One he explains the process of vision, in Book Two he sets out 'to instruct the painter how he can present with his hand what he has understood with his mind'. Book Three stipulates the moral and artistic prerequisites of the painter. [...] This edition at last makes widely available Cecil Grayson's translation from the Latin, the best English version of Alberti's text. It contains diagrams integrated into the text and an introduction by Martin Kemp which discusses De Pictura in the light of Alberti's life and philosophy."--Page 4 of cover
Print Book, English, 1991
Penguin Books, London, 1991