Carlos Antônio Leite Brandão, Pierre Caye, Francesco Furlan, Maurício Alves Loureiro (Organizers)
Area: Art | Philosophy
Collection: IEAT
Weight: 800 grams
Format: 22.5 x 15.5
2013. 549 p. ISBN: 978-85-423-0006-2

The inventiveness of Leon Battista Alberti (1404-1472) is infinite. There is nothing, or almost nothing—literature, arts, sciences, economics, morality, and politics—that Alberti did not address and that was not profoundly modified by his always singular reading, so that not only culture but also modes of rationality were able to take on new aspects that even the term “humanism” is incapable of circumscribing. The texts gathered here propose a unique reflection on four fundamental Albertian questions: the foundation of a modern and secular anthropology; the invention of the project and the genesis of modern technology; the emergence of the theory of arts and disegno; the relationship between text and image and its epistemological and ecdotal implications. Furthermore, the book presents the first Portuguese translation of the descriptio urbis romae, based on the critical edition published by the Société Internationale Leon Battista Alberti.