Conférence : Caspar Pearson, « Alberti in Florence. Painting and the Machinery of the State », Florence, Palazzo Grifoni Budini Gattai, 12 juillet 2022, 18h
In the mid-1430s, Leon Battista Alberti produced two crucially important texts: the Della famiglia and the De pictura. This paper explores some aspects of these works, paying particular attention to the ways in which they overlap with each other. In doing so, it considers how Alberti might be understood to have brought a pictorial or perspectival form of thinking to bear upon his discussions of the family and the city. It also examines his ambivalent...