Illuminating Leonardo : a festschrift for Carlo Pedretti celebrating his 70 years of scholarship (1944-2014) / edited by Constance Moffatt, Sara Taglialagamba.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Moffatt, Constance, editor.

Taglialagamba, Sara, editor.

Series:

Leonardo Studies 1.

Leonardo Studies, 2352-8052 ; Volume 1

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Leonardo, da Vinci, 1452-1519--Criticism and interpretation.

Leonardo.

Leonardo, da Vinci, 1452-1519.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (400 p.)

Place of Publication:

Leiden, Netherlands ; Boston, Massachusetts : Brill, 2016.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Illuminating Leonardo opens the new series Leonardo Studies with a tribute to Professor Carlo Pedretti, the most important Leonardo scholar of our time, with a wide-ranging overview of current Leonardo scholarship from the most renowned Leonardo scholars and young researchers. Though no single book could provide a comprehensive overview of the current state of Leonardo studies, after reading this collection of short essays cover-to-cover, the reader will come away knowing a great deal about the current state of the field in many areas of research. To begin the series, editors Constance Moffatt and Sara Taglialagamba present an impressive group of essays that offer fresh ideas as a departure point for future studies. Contributors include Andrea Bernardoni, Pascal Broist, Alfredo Buccaro, Francesco Paolo di Teodoro, Claire Farago, Francesca Fiorani, Fabio Frosini, Sabine Frommel, Leslie Geddes, Damiano Iacobone, Martin Kemp, Matthew Landrus, Domenico Laurenza, Pietro C. Marani, Max Marmor, Constance Moffatt, Romano Nanni, Annalisa Perissa-Torrini, Paola Salvi, Richard Schofield, Sara Taglialagamba, Carlo Vecce, Alessandro Vezzosi, Marino Viganò, and Joanna Woods-Marsden.

Contents:

Preliminary Material

Introduction / Constance Moffatt and Sara Taglialagamba

1 One for the Books: A Bibliographical ‘Gleaning’ for CP / Max Marmor

2 The Codex Corazza and Zaccolini’s Treatises in the Project of Cassiano dal Pozzo for the Spreading of Leonardo’s Works / Alfredo Buccaro

3 A Copy of Sacrobosco’s Sphaera in Mirror Script Attributed to Matteo Zaccolini / Domenico Laurenza

4 A Short Note on Artisanal Epistemology in Leonardo’s Treatise on Painting / Claire Farago

5 Leonardo’s Cartonetti for Luca Pacioli’s Platonic Bodies / Pietro C. Marani

6 Giuliano da Sangallo and Leonardo da Vinci: Cross-Pollination or Parallels? / Sabine Frommel

7 Evidence of Leonardo’s Systematic Design Process for Palaces and Canals in Romorantin / Matthew Landrus

8 Vitruvius in the Trattato dell’Architettura by Luca Pacioli / Francesco Di Teodoro

9 Notes on Leonardo and Vitruvius / Richard Schofield

10 Why Did Leonardo Not Finish the Adoration of the Magi? / Francesca Fiorani

11 “Here’s Looking at You” / Martin Kemp

12 Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa: A Portrait without a Commissioner? / Joanna Woods-Marsden

13 Leonardo’s Followers in Lombardy: Girolamo and Giovan Ambrogio Figino / Annalisa Perissa Torrini

14 A Machine to “Build” Artilleries / Andrea Bernardoni

15 Bombards and Noisy Bullets / Pascal Brioist

16 Leonardo and the artes mechanicae / Romano Nanni

17 “The Sculptor Says” / Carlo Vecce

18 Leonardo and the Trivulzio Monument: Some Questions and Evidence (1507–1518) / Marino Viganò

19 The Midpoint of the Human Body in Leonardo’s Drawings and in the Codex Huygens / Paola Salvi

20 Drawing Bridges: Leonardo da Vinci on Mastering Nature / Leslie Geddes

21 Leonardo da Vinci’s Hydraulic Systems and Fountains for His French Patrons Louis XII, Charles d’Amboise and Francis I / Sara Taglialagamba

22 Pyramids, Rays, Points, and “Spiritual Powers”: Leonardo’s Research during the Last Decade of the Fifteenth Century / Fabio Frosini

23 A Hydraulic System Drawing by Leonardo: Some Evaluations / Damiano Iacobone

24 Leonardo’s Maps / Constance Moffatt

25 Sightings, Mistakes and Discoveries “al verso” / Alessandro Vezzosi

Essential Bibliography / Constance Moffatt and Sara Taglialagamba

Index / Constance Moffatt and Sara Taglialagamba.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

90-04-30413-4

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004304130 DOI