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
Leon Battista Alberti
Author, Florentine, 1404 - 1472
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Artwork overview
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Medium
1 vol: ill: 94 woodcuts (including vignettes and tailpieces) within text, plus title page and portrait of Alberti (unsigned)
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
page size: 33.6 x 21.7 cm (13 1/4 x 8 9/16 in.)
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Accession
1983.49.2
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Darbou, by 1718. Mark J. Millard, New York; purchased by NGA, 1983.
Associated Names
Bibliography
1993
Wiebenson/Baines 1993, no. 2.
Inscriptions
by later hand, rear pastedown, upper center in black ink: Darbou 14 8 1718