The Architecture of Leon Battista Alberti in Ten Books of Painting in Three Books and of Statuary in One Book. Translated into Italian by Cosimo Bartoli. The Second Edition and Divided into Two Volumes by James Leoni, Venetian, Architect
published 1739
Bernard Picart
Artist, French, 1673 - 1733
Giacomo Leoni
Artist, Italian, c. 1686 - 1746
Leon Battista Alberti
Author, Florentine, 1404 - 1472
Artwork overview
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Medium
books I through V in 1 vol: ill: engraved frontispiece by Bernard Picart, plus 9 engravings by Giacomo Leoni
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
page size: 42.9 x 27.8 cm (16 7/8 x 10 15/16 in.)
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Accession
1981.70.9
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Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Stamp of K.K. Technische Militair Academie Bibliothek (Lugt undescribed). Stamp of ING: AHAD: Bibliothecke (Lugt undescribed). Mark J. Millard, New York; gift to NGA, 1981.
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Bibliography
1998
Middleton et al. 1998, no. 5.