De pictura

About “De pictura”

De pictura, also known as Della picture, is a treatise written by the Italian humanist and artist Leon Battista Alberti. The first version was composed in Latin in 1435 but was not published until 1450. It is one of Alberti’s three writings on art, alongside De statua and De re aedificatoria. These works helped shape the Renaissance understanding of the fine arts, covering painting, sculpture, and architecture. (Summary adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.)