ALBERTIS CHURCH SA (Outstanding dissertations in the fine arts) by Lamoureux ISBN 13: 9780824039585

New York: Garland Publishing. Very Good- with no dust jacket. 1979. Hardcover. 0824039580 . Library stamps/marks/labels/pocket, cocked, otherwise light wear. Solid hardcover.; Architectural criticism of the now abandoned, heavily restored fifteenth-century Church of San Sebastiano in Mantua, and the ecclesiastical architecture of Leone Battista Alberti. "Alberti may be the first architect consciously and systematically to construct a church, namely San Sebastiano, less in terms of the function it was to serve as a place of worship or as a commemorative monument, but more in terms of its urban function and more importantly in terms of its esthetic function: by its beauty and perfection, an earthly image, if not also realization, of the heavenly Jerusalem." ; Outstanding Dissertations in the Fine Arts; Ex-Library; 349 pages .

New York & London: Garland Publishing, 1979. Book measures 21x15.5.cm. xiii,349pp, illustrated. Bound in original publishers blue cloth, with gilt lettering. Cloth lightly rubbed. Binding in very good clean condition. Internally, pages clean. A nice clean copy. . Hard Cover. Very Good. 8vo.