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

published 1739

Bernard Picart

Artist, French, 1673 - 1733

Giacomo Leoni

Artist, Italian, c. 1686 - 1746

John Harris

Artist, British, active 1686/1740

Leon Battista Alberti

Author, Florentine, 1404 - 1472

Artwork overview

  • Medium

    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

  • Credit Line

    Mark J. Millard Architectural Collection

  • Dimensions

    page size: 42.9 x 27.8 cm (16 7/8 x 10 15/16 in.)

  • Accession

    1981.70.10

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Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Stamp of K.K. Technische Militair Academie Bibliothek (Lugt undescribed). Stamp of ING: AHAD: Bibliothecke (Lugt undescribed). Mark J. Millard, New York; gift to NGA, 1981.

Associated Names

Bibliography

1998

  • Middleton et al. 1998, no. 5.

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