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Illuminating Leonardo : a festschrift for Carlo Pedretti celebrating his 70 years of scholarship (1944-2014) /

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...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Other Authors: Pedretti, Carlo (honouree.), Moffatt, Constance J. (Editor), Taglialagamba, Sara (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Boston : Brill, 2015.
Series:Leonardo studies.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Preface : "poni il ver messo ..." / Constance Moffatt
  • Preface : "masso miglio ala formica" / Sara Taglialagamba
  • Introduction / Constance Moffatt and Sara Taglialagamba
  • pt. 1. Books and influence. One for the books : a bibliographical 'gleaning' for CP / Max Marmor. The Codex Corazza and Zaccolini's treatises in the project of Cassiano dal Pozzo for the spreading of Leonardo's works / Alfredo Buccaro. A copy of Sacrobosco's Sphaera in mirror script attributed to Matteo Zaccolini / Domenico Laurenza. Dissemination of knowledge : a short note on artisanal epistemology in Leonard's treatise on painting / Claire Farago. Leonardo's cartonetti for Luca Pacioli's Platonic bodies / Pietro C. Marani
  • pt. 3. Architecture. Giuliano da Sangallo and Leonardo da Vinci : cross-polination or parallels? / Sabine Frommel. Evidence of Leonardo's systematic design process for palaces and canals in Romorantin / Matthew Landrus. Vitruvius in the Trattato dell'architettura by Luca Pacioli / Francesco Di Teodor. Notes on Leonard and Vitruvius / Richard Schofield
  • pt. 4. Painting and drawing. Why did Leonardo not finish the Adoration of the Magi? / Francesca Fiorani. "Here's looking at you" : the cartoon for the so-called 'Nude Monda Lisa' / Martin Kemp. Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa : a portrait without a commissioner? / Joanna Woods-Marsden. Leonardo's followers in Lombardy : Girolamo and Giovan Ambrogio Figino / Annalisa Perissa Trorini
  • pt. 5. Machines. A machine to "build" artilleries / Andrea Bernardoni. Bombards and noisy bullets, Pietro Monte and Leonard da Vinci's collaboration / Pascal Brioist. Leonardo and the artes mechnanicae / Romano Nanni
  • pt. 6. Sculpture. "The sculpture says" : Leonardo and Gian Cristoforo Romano / Carlo Vecce. Leonardo and the Trivulzio monument : some questions and evidence (1507-1518) / Marino Viganó
  • pt. 7. Science and nature : the body, the body of the earth. The midpoint of the human body in Leonardo's drawings in the Codex Huygens / Paola Salvi. Drawing bridges : Leonardo da Vinci on mastering nature / Leslie Geddes. Leonardo da Vinci's hydraulic systems and fountains for his French patrons LouisXII, Charles d'Amboise and Francis I : models, influences, and reprises featured in the art of garden design / Sara Tagliagamba. Pyramids, rays, points, and "sprititual powers" : Leonardo's research during the last decade of the fifteenth century / Fabio Frosini. A hydraulic system drawing by Leondardo : some evaluations / Damiano Iacobone
  • Leondar's maps / Constance Moffatt
  • Sightings, mistakes and discoveries "al verso" / Alessandro Vezzosi.