De pictura (English: "On Painting") is a treatise or commentarii written by the Italian humanist and artist Leon Battista Alberti. The first version, composed...

which my subject is concerned." Della pittura (also known in Latin as De Pictura) relied on the study classical optics to approach the perspective in artistic...

by his own measurements, the drawings of his contemporaries, and the De pictura treatise by Leon Battista Alberti. Leonardo produced the Vitruvian Man...

Alberti first introduced the concept in his treatise on perspective in art, De pictura, written in 1435. Straight railroad tracks are a familiar modern example...

scientific study of light. These studies and Leon Battista Alberti's treatise De pictura were to have a profound effect on younger artists and in particular on...

"Alberti Before Florence: Early Sources Informing Leon Battista Alberti’s De pictura", led to him being awarded his doctorate in 2014. Weller's stage career...

Ut pictura poesis is a Latin phrase literally meaning "as is painting so is poetry". The statement (often repeated) occurs most famously in Horace's Ars...

foundation for perspective in Europe. Piero della Francesca elaborated on De pictura in his De Prospectiva pingendi in the 1470s, making many references to Euclid...

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neglected. Major works include: 1637, De pictura veterum translated as On the Painting of the Ancients in 1638, and as De Schilder-konst der Oude begrepen...