L'architettura di Leonbatista Alberti
A 1550 Florentine edition of Leon Battista Alberti's architectural treatise, printed by Lorenzo Torrentino for a learned audience of architects and scholars. Its pictures are crisp engraved architectural elevations, sections and plans of arcades, pilasters, cornices and a triumphal arch, with clear hatching that shows stone and shadow; a designer could borrow their clean classical proportions and rhythm of arches and columns.
