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Abstract: Principles of the Artistic Production and of the Critical Judgment in Renaissance: Leon Battista Alberti and Leonardo da Vinci. This study is the first part of a project aiming to reconstitute by a historical and systematic approach the principles of the artistic production and of the critical judgment, which offer the theoretical background of Painting from Renaissance to classical age. The keys of reading are offered on the one side by the relations established between Painting, Poetry and Rhetoric under the topics of Ut poesis pictura and Ut rhetorica pictura, which underlie the definitions of the nature, content and functions of Painting and the model of the ideal artist, and on the other side by the theory of history which underlie this theoretical system and orients it as a research of perfection. In order to understand the questions that artists and art theorists formulated in the classical age, we have to retrace their path. Our investigation has then to operate under a double partition in space and time: it starts by analyzing the commencing of the Humanist theory of Painting in the 15th Century Florence and continues with its development and transformation in the 16th and 17th Centuries in Venice and Rome, from Mannerism until Neo-Classicism. This approach will permit us to reveal the fundamental principles and to articulate the theoretical structures that dominated the artistic production and the critical judgment more than two centuries. This first part deals particularly with the antique sources of the Humanist theory of Painting and with the treatises of Painting of Leon Battista Alberti and Leonardo da Vinci.
Key-words: Ut poesis pictura, Ut rhetorica pictura, painting, progress and decadence, Alberti L.B (1404-1472) Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519).
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