Search results

Ancient Roman architect and author of ‘On Architecture (De Architectura)’, the only architectural treatise to survive from ancient Rome. This work was of great importance in the 'rediscovery' of Ancient Roman architecture in the Renaissance, and f...

A workshop was where a painter in the Middle Ages and Renaissance carried out his work, at a time when painting was considered to be a craft. There he would have apprentices and assistants, the chief of whom might carry out a painting without the...

Leon Battista Alberti (1404–1472) was one of the key art theorists and architects of the Early Renaissance. He mainly wrote about architecture, mathematics and art. His work was highly influential for the development of Humanism in Florence. In hi...

A full extract from the National Gallery's scholarly catalogue.

before 1872

about 1500-1510

A full extract from the National Gallery's scholarly catalogue.

A full extract from the National Gallery's scholarly catalogue.

A full extract from the National Gallery's scholarly catalogue.

A full extract from the National Gallery's scholarly catalogue.