Painting contains a divine force which not only makes absent men present, as friendship is said to do, but moreover makes the dead seem almost alive.
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Original Citation
Alberti, Leon Battista. De Pictura [On Painting]. c. 1450, bk. 2.
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Current Citation
Alberti, Leon Battista. On Painting, translated by John R. Spencer. Yale University Press, 1966, bk. 2.
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