Leon Battista Alberti

Alberti, Leone Battista

Florentine, 1404 - 1472

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The Architecture of Leon Battista Alberti in Ten Books of Painting in Three Books and of Statuary in One Book. Translated into Italian by Cosimo Bartoli. The Second Edition and Divided into Two Volumes by James Leoni, Venetian, Architect

Bernard Picart, Giacomo Leoni, John Harris, Leon Battista Alberti · published 1739 · books VI through X in 1 vol: ill: 65 engraved plates, 48 by Giacomo Leoni, with several of these signed by John Harris, 17 by Bernard Picart ·  Accession ID  1981.70.10

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The Architecture of Leon Battista Alberti in Ten Books of Painting in Three Books and of Statuary in One Book. Translated into Italian by Cosimo Bartoli. The Second Edition and Divided into Two Volumes by James Leoni, Venetian, Architect

Bernard Picart, Giacomo Leoni, Leon Battista Alberti · published 1739 · books I through V in 1 vol: ill: engraved frontispiece by Bernard Picart, plus 9 engravings by Giacomo Leoni ·  Accession ID  1981.70.9

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The Architecture of Leon Battista Alberti in Ten Books of Painting in Three Books and of Statuary in One Book. Translated into Italian by Cosimo Bartoli. And Now First Into English, and Divided Into Three Volumes by James Leoni, Venetian, Architect; To Which Are Added Several Designs of His Own, For Buildings Both Public and Private

Bernard Picart, Giacomo Leoni, James Cole, John Harris, Leon Battista Alberti · published 1726 · books I through X in 1 vol: ill: frontispiece by Bernard Picart plus 103 engravings by Giacomo Leoni with 30 by Picart as engraver and several by John Harris and James Cole as engravers ·  Accession ID  1983.49.4

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Architecture, Painting, and Sculpture

Giacomo Leoni, Various Artists, Leon Battista Alberti · published 1726 · 3 works bound in 1 vol: ill: 94 engravings by Leoni, Picart, John Harris, and J. Cole ·  Accession ID  1956.4.4

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L'Architettura di Leonbatista Alberti Tradotta in Lingua Fiorentina da Cosimo Bartoli, Gentilhuomo, & Accedemico Fiorentino. Con la aggiunta de' Disegni

Leon Battista Alberti · published 1565 · 1 vol: ill: 90 woodcuts (including vignettes and tailpieces), plus title page and portrait of Alberti (unsigned) ·  Accession ID  1983.49.3

Leon Battista Alberti, L'Architecture et Art de Bien Bastir du Seigneur Leon Baptiste Albert, Gentilhomme Florentin, divisée en dix livres, Traduicts de Latin en François, par deffunct Ian Martin, Parisien, negueres Secretaire du Reuerendissime Cardinal de Lenoncourt, published 1553, 1 vol: ill: 94 woodcuts (including vignettes and tailpieces) within text, plus title page and portrait of Alberti (unsigned), Mark J. Millard Architectural Collection, 1983.49.2

L'Architecture et Art de Bien Bastir du Seigneur Leon Baptiste Albert, Gentilhomme Florentin, divisée en dix livres, Traduicts de Latin en François, par deffunct Ian Martin, Parisien, negueres Secretaire du Reuerendissime Cardinal de Lenoncourt

Leon Battista Alberti · published 1553 · 1 vol: ill: 94 woodcuts (including vignettes and tailpieces) within text, plus title page and portrait of Alberti (unsigned) ·  Accession ID  1983.49.2

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L'Architettura di Leonbatista Alberti Tradotta in lingua Fiorentina da Cosimo Bartoli Gentil'huomo & Accedemico Fiorentino. Con la aggiunta de Disegni

Leon Battista Alberti · published 1550 · 1 vol: ill: 81 woodcuts (including vignettes and tailpieces) within text, plus title page and portrait of Alberti (unsigned) ·  Accession ID  1983.49.1

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Libri de re aedificatoria dece...

Leon Battista Alberti · published 1512 · 1 vol: ill: metalcut title page and text ·  Accession ID  1985.61.327

This bronze, oval medallion shows the profile of a man facing our left, his head and neck filling the space. He has short wavy hair and a long, pointed nose. He looks steadily into the distance to our left, and his lips are closed. His garment wraps around the back of his neck and is knotted at the base of his throat. The capital letters “L BAP” run vertically up near the edge of the medallion in the space behind his neck to our right. A symbol under his chin to our left is made up of a wing arched over a stylized eye. Light glints on the deep brown bronze surface, especially on the front of the chin, cheeks, and forehead, and in his choppy hair.
Leon Battista Alberti, Self-Portrait, c. 1435, bronze, Samuel H. Kress Collection, 1957.14.125

Self-Portrait

Leon Battista Alberti · c. 1435 · bronze ·  Accession ID  1957.14.125