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

published 1565

Leon Battista Alberti

Author, Florentine, 1404 - 1472

Artwork overview

  • Medium

    1 vol: ill: 90 woodcuts (including vignettes and tailpieces), plus title page and portrait of Alberti (unsigned)

  • Credit Line

    Mark J. Millard Architectural Collection

  • Dimensions

    page size: 22.4 x 16 cm (8 13/16 x 6 5/16 in.)

  • Accession

    1983.49.3

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Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Mark J. Millard, New York; purchased by NGA, 1983.

Associated Names

Bibliography

2000

  • Pollak et al. 2000, no. 7

Inscriptions

by later (contemporary) hand, frontispiece, lower center in brown ink: Leon Batta Alberti Antico scritor d'architt.a / Vivea nel anno 1457 fu primo de Bramante / la su architett.a e stata ristampata due volte; same page, upper center in brown ink: 1450; by later (modern) hand, on end papers, upper right in brown pencil: $300.00 / CCD

Watermarks

on front end paper, fleur-de-lis in circle

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