In the canon
On Painting
Leon Battista Alberti
- Form
- Form Non-fiction
- Year
- Year 1435
- Originally in
- Originally in Latin
- Pages
- Pages 120
Draw a rectangle on the panel and regard it as an open window through which the story will be seen. With that one instruction Leon Battista Alberti gave the painters of Florence a horizon and a tiled floor receding to a single point, and European painting stopped guessing at depth and began building it..
There are indeed among Painters, four true Sorts of Colours, answering to the four Elements
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