Albertis Law

Here is another liability: beautiful drawings can become ends in themselves.

Often, if the drawing deceives, it is not only the viewer who is enchanged but also the maker, who is the victim of his own artifice.

Alberti understood

-- WitoldRybczynski, TheMostBeautifulHouseInTheWorld, ISBN 0-670-81981-6 ISBN 0-14-010566-2 , p. 121.


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