Cover of Trattato della pittura

Trattato della pittura

by Raphael Trichet Du Fresne, Leon Battista Alberti, Leonardo da Vinci

1651 189 pages eng

This is the first pocket-sized edition of Leonardo da Vinci's treatise on painting. The editor was a print maker who owned a print shop and saw the market for an affordable edition that would appeal to artists and art lovers. He reduced the engravings of human figures in movement to line drawings to…

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