Leon Battista Alberti's Hypnerotomachia Poliphili: Re-Cognizing the Architectural Body in the Early Italian Renaissance by Liane Lefaivre

Leon Battista Alberti's Hypnerotomachia Poliphili: Re-Cognizing the Architectural Body in the Early Italian Renaissance

Mit Press

Liane Lefaivre

340 pages • missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction design history reflective medium-paced
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A critical-theoretical reading of the strange, dreamlike work of Leon Battista Alberti.The enigmatic, polyglot Hypnerotomachia Poliphili--the inspiration for the bestselling novel The Rule of Four--has fascinated architects and historians since it...

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