Della architettura di Leon Battista Alberti libri 10, della pittura libri 3 e della statua libro 1 / The architecture of Leon Battista Alberti in ten books, of painting in three books and of statuary in one book (uebers. von Cosimo Bartoli und Giacomo Le
An early eighteenth-century Italian treatise on architecture, painting and sculpture by Leon Battista Alberti, issued in a 1726 edition held by Heidelberg University Library. The plates show geometric paving and brick-bond patterns, diagrams of pattern units and proportion grids, and a decorative printer's ornament with a sunburst and scrolling foliage. A designer could draw on the crisp hatched geometry of the paving diagrams for tiles, textiles or flooring, and on the ornament's symmetrical scrollwork.
