Della architettura, della pittura e della statua
An 1782 Italian edition published in Bologna by the Istituto delle Scienze, gathering Leon Battista Alberti's treatises on architecture, painting and sculpture, with Cosimo Bartoli's Italian translation, for students and scholars of the arts. The plates are engraved architectural drawings: a facade elevation beside a section, a plan of a church with a rounded apse, and a detailed column base, set on plain pages with faint outlines of small objects at the end. A designer might take their crisp line work, clear grid-like layouts and classical proportions as reference for drafted diagrams.
