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Fresh Widow

Leon Battista Alberti • Hatje Cantz • ISBN 9783775732932

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Fresh Widow

Leon Battista Alberti • Hatje Cantz • ISBN-13 9783775732932

ISBN-10 Not provided • 2012

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ISBN 9783775732932 • Completeness 48

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Formulated in 1434 by Leon Battista Alberti, the notion that a painting is like an open window influenced generations of painters. At the start of the twentieth century, the window, reduced to its framework, was employed as a motif and a symbol in order to test the function of painting as a means of reproduction. To the degree that the window is empty, its painted depiction denies us a perspective of the world. With

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Publisher: Hatje Cantz
2012
Pages: 288

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Contributor: Leon Battista AlbertiMovement: Modernism

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Category: ArchiveCategory: Art TheoryCategory: Caroline-KaedingCategory: Christian-MuellerCategory: Doris-KrystofCategory: Dr-Christoph-GrunenbergCategory: Elke-BippusCategory: Erich-Franz

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