Download or read book On Painting and On Sculpture written by Leon Battista Alberti and published by Phaidon Press. This book was released on 1972 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume makes available the texts of two of his major works of artistic theory, which in part reflected and in part determined the practice of painting and sculpture and which are fundamental for the understanding of the theory and practice of Italian Renaissance art. In spite of their long acknowledge importance and frequent use, the texts themselves have remained comparatively neglected and not infreaquently misunderstood. -- Book Jacket.