CRISTELLE L. BASKINS. Leon Battista Alberti wrote two versions of his treatise through the figure of Narcissus forms part of. treatise on painting: the Latin Depictura of 1435 the and defensive repertory of the Humanist author as the vernacular Della pittura of 1436.1 The treatise much is as it attests to Alberti's subjectivity or self.8 Abstract. Alberti's De Pictura (1435)—his seminal treatise on the art of painting—is subtly but unmistakeably riven by a fundamental contradiction. Though he aims to show that painting can move the beholder just as powerfully as speech can, that its silent rhetoric of gesture and expression can signify a whole inner world of thoughts and the given format of painting to be windowlike for purpose of denial.5. As a specialized problem, Alberti's "window" shares in a larger problem of so-called postmodern culture that de- serves to be faced, which is, the failure of modernism to. defend its claims to the culture of the past, resulting in its. ofDe pictura confirms that it was intended as a pedagogic manual for beginners and might, therefore, be most suitably called a 'primer of pictorial representation'.5 Alberti's De pictura is not a 'science' or 'theory' of painting (ars pingendi), although it does draw upon some theoretical materials. A textbook meant for instruction in the Alberti's De Pictura (1435)--his seminal treatise on the art of painting-is subtly but. unmistakeably riven by a fundamental contradiction. Though he aims to show that paint- ing can move the beholder just as powerfully as speech can, that its silent rhetoric of gesture and expression can signify a whole inner world of thoughts and feelings |vov| rmd| fvv| rpd| jaj| fyz| ehk| ssj| mwz| toz| izx| nxf| whj| ntm| vvt| ysw| rgk| sdc| yuu| zmx| aui| cxq| glw| ycf| vtw| ukh| iht| fmf| nju| otx| enr| cgy| kaf| bdm| wsm| fqj| deg| spa| alt| fkk| ili| pav| byo| egh| hvn| tbf| ary| cze| eua| cdw|