/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

Thought I might read Leon Battista Alberti's On Painting (1435); this was literally the first book published that explains linear perspective. It makes me really appreciate all the different resources on perspective and art that we have now.
Imagine reading that in the early 1400s:
>yeah, i prolly didn't do the best job of explaining this, but if you don't get you're retarded and NGMI
>this is literally the only existing text on the subject
I don't think i would've understood it if I wasn't already familiar with perspective.

It's probably not more practical than a modern text, but it was interesting in an 'art history' sense. He goes on to talk about more than perspective, and it's an interesting look into what some renaissance masters might've studied. It's neat to see how more than a few of the things he says still hold true after 600
Sorry if this isn't the best place to post this, I don't know anywhere else to find other people who might be autistic enough to be interested in this obscure bs.

I'm considering scanning my copy, but I've never done that so it would be a pretty rough job.