published a treatise on perspective della pitture (or on painting) in 1435
Leon Battista Alberti
title: De pictura text: De pictura De pictura (English: "On Painting") is a treatise written by the Italian architect and art theorist Leon Battista Alberti. The first version, written in vernacular Italian in 1435 under the title Della pittura, was for a general audience. The Latin version, the "De pictura" of 1439–41, was more technical and intended for scholars. The work is the first in a trilogy of treatises on the "Major arts" which had a widespread circulation during the Renaissance, the others being "De re aedificatoria" ("On Architecture", 1454) and "De statua" ("On Sculpture", 1462). Alberti was a member of Florentine family exiled title: De Prospectiva Pingendi text: De Prospectiva Pingendi De Prospectiva pingendi (On the Perspective of painting) is the earliest and only pre–1500 Renaissance treatise solely devoted to the subject of perspective. It was written by the Italian master Piero della Francesca late in his career but possibly by c. 1474. Despite its Latin title, the opus is written in Italian. The subjects covered by Piero della Francesca in these writings include arithmetic, algebra, geometry and innovative work in both solid geometry and perspective. The script consists of three parts: "De Prospectiva Pingendi" was probably created in the years between 1474 until 1482. The writings were title: Leonardo da Vinci text: The content of his journals suggest that he was planning a series of treatises to be published on a variety of subjects. A coherent treatise on anatomy was said to have been observed during a visit by Cardinal Louis 'D' Aragon's secretary in 1517. Aspects of his work on the studies of anatomy, light and the landscape were assembled for publication by his pupil Francesco Melzi and eventually published as "Treatise on Painting by Leonardo da Vinci" in France and Italy in 1651 and Germany in 1724, with engravings based upon drawings by the Classical painter Nicolas Poussin. According to title: Giovanni Battista Agucchi text: Library, MS. 1742). Agucchi's main published writing is a very incomplete but nonetheless significant "Trattato della pittura" ("Treatise on painting"), probably written in 1615, whose manuscript is in the library of the University of Bologna (MS. 245), who also have an unpublished Latin biography of his brother "Vita Hieronymi Agucchi" (MS 75). The "Trattato" was published posthumously in Rome in 1646, using the pseudonym Gratiadio Machati, which Agucchi had used in his lifetime (a convention for a cleric writing on secular matters). It was included in the preface by G. A. Mosini, the pseudonym of Giovanni Antonio Massani, to a title: Codex Urbinas text: Codex Urbinas A Treatise on Painting is a collection of Leonardo da Vinci's writings entered in his notebooks under the general heading "On Painting". The manuscripts were gathered together by Francesco Melzi some time before 1542 and first printed in French and Italian as "Trattato della pittura" by Raffaelo du Fresne in 1651. The main aim of the treatise was to argue that painting was a science. Leonardo's keen observation of expression and character is evidenced in his comparison of laughing and weeping, about which he notes that the only difference between the two emotions in terms of the "motion