The function of the painter is to render... the visible surface so that at a certain distance... and position it appears... like the body itself.
When I investigate and when I discover that the forces of the heavens and the planets are within ourselves, then truly I seem to be living among the … - Leon Battista Alberti
When I investigate and when I discover that the forces of the heavens and the planets are within ourselves, then truly I seem to be living among the …
- Leon Battista Alberti
There is no art which has not had its beginnings in things full of errors. Nothing is at the same time both new and perfect. - Leon Battista Alberti
There is no art which has not had its beginnings in things full of errors. Nothing is at the same time both new and perfect.
A man can do all things if he will. - Leon Battista Alberti
A man can do all things if he will.
The Arts are learnt by reason and method; they are mastered by practice. - Leon Battista Alberti
The Arts are learnt by reason and method; they are mastered by practice.
The city is like a great house, and the house in its turn a small city. - Leon Battista Alberti
The city is like a great house, and the house in its turn a small city.
... the movements of the body reveal the movements of the soul. - Leon Battista Alberti
... the movements of the body reveal the movements of the soul.
I certainly consider a great appreciation of painting to be the best indication of a most perfect mind. - Leon Battista Alberti
I certainly consider a great appreciation of painting to be the best indication of a most perfect mind.
Painting is possessed of divine power, for not only does it make the absent present, but also makes the dead almost alive. - Leon Battista Alberti
Painting is possessed of divine power, for not only does it make the absent present, but also makes the dead almost alive.
A common error of ignorance is to maintain that what one does not know does not exist. - Leon Battista Alberti
A common error of ignorance is to maintain that what one does not know does not exist.
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