... designers and building sites is an historical variable, and it ebbed and flowed for centuries before (and after) Alberti’s theoretical climax. With these ebbs and flows, the need for, and availability ... mass-produced, standardized, mechanical, and identical copies should be seen as an interlude, and a relatively brief one—sandwiched between the age of hand-making, which preceded it, and the digital ... culture, and prompted new social and legal practices aimed at the protec-tion of the original and its owner or creator. At the same time, new cultural technologies and new machines emerged and...