De pictura. Antiquité but also mesmerism and angels

but also mesmerism and angels

in the evening light of the scrubland

Much more exploited than today

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De pictura. Antiquité but also mesmerism and angelsThere are several versions of De pictura . First written in Tuscan in 1435, Alberti revised and improved it between 1439 and 1441 when he translated it into Latin. It is this version, the most complete, that we present here, accompanied by a critical apparatus and an iconography that do justice to this treatise, which for more than five centuries has been a major reference in aesthetic reflection. With De pictura , Alberti formulated, ordered and