Defining the Architect in Fifteenth-Century Italy: Exemplary Architects in L. B. Alberti's de Re Aedificatoria (Annales Academiae Scientiarum Fennicae. Ser. Humaniora, 294)
by Kanerva, Liisa
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Suomamalainen Tiedeakatemia. 1998. Trade paperback. Fine.. 166 p., bibliography. . In his architectual treatise, De Re aedificatoria, Leon Battista Alberti (1404-1472) defines the task of the architect by means of exemplum, a didactic method widely utilized in classical and medieval literature. The deeds of exemplary figures such as Alexander the Great, Queen Semiramis, Archimedes, and very personified Nature reveal the essential of the Albertian Architect.
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- Defining the Architect in Fifteenth-Century Italy: Exemplary Architects in L. B. Alberti's de Re Aedificatoria (Annales Academiae Scientiarum Fennicae. Ser. Humaniora, 294)
- Author
- Kanerva, Liisa
- Format/Binding
- Trade paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine.
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- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 9514108450
- ISBN 13
- 9789514108457
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- Suomamalainen Tiedeakatemia
- Place of Publication
- Helsinki
- Date Published
- 1998
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- 166 p., bibliography.
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