On Alberti's "sign": vision and composition in quattrocento painting. (Leon Battista Alberti's commentary 'On Painting')

From: The Art Bulletin | Date: December 1, 1997| Author: Greenstein, Jack M. | Copyright information

This paper excavates the philosophical and optical sources for Alberti's commentary On Painting. Alberti claims that his three rules of art derive from the way that people see. This paper shows that they are adapted from Alhazen's optics, which explains how vision provides a secure knowledge of the material world. In Aristotelian philosophy, the cognitive process for understanding material objects is termed composition. By making composition a rule of art, Alberti locates early quattrocento p...

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