Juliana Barone
(PhD, 2002) is Research Fellow at the Department of the History of Art at Birkbeck College, University of London. Her books and monographs include Leonardo: The Codex Arundel (2008); Studies of motion from the Codex Atlanticus (2011); Leonardo in seventeenth-century France: paradoxical legacies (2013); The Treatise on Painting: traces and convergences (2014). She has co-authored, with Martin Kemp, I disegni di Leonardo da Vinci e della sua cerchia. Collezioni in Gran Bretagna. Edizione nazionale dei manoscritti e dei disegni (2010).
Janis Bell
(PhD, 1983) is an independent scholar. She has published widely on early modern art and art theory, particularly on Leonardo da Vinci, Matteo Zaccolini, Caravaggio, Cassiano dal Pozzo, and on the legacy of ancient and medieval optical theory. She is contributing co-editor (with Thomas Willette) of Art History in the Age of Bellori (2002).
Claire Farago
(PhD, 1988) is Professor Emerita of Art History at the University of Colorado Boulder who has published widely on early modern art theory, historiography, and transcultural studies. Her books and edited volumes on Leonardo include Leonardo da Vinciâs Paragone (1992); Leonardo da Vinci: Selected Scholarship in English, 5 vols. (1999); Leonardo da Vinci and the Ethics of Style (2008); and the companion volume to the present publication, Re-Reading Leonardo: The Treatise on Painting across Europe 1550â1900 (2009).
Mario Valentino Guffanti
Member and Researcher at Ente Raccolta Vinciana in Milan, is a specialist on the printed editions of Leonardoâs Treatise on Painting. His publications include an essay and catalogue entries in Leonardo: Dagli studi di proporzioni al Trattato della Pittura (edited by Pietro C. Marani and M. T. Florio, 2007) and the âBibliography of Printed Editions of Leonardo da Vinciâs Treatise on Paintingâ in Re-Reading Leonardo (2009). He built a database for the Treatise on Painting on the Raccolta vinciana website and photographed the Trattato della Pittura (1651) and later editions for the present publication.
Martin Kemp
is Emeritus Professor of the History of Art at Oxford University. He has written and broadcast extensively on imagery in art and science from the Renaissance to the present day. His many publications on Leonardo include Leonardo da Vinci: The Marvellous Works of Nature and Man (1981; rev. ed. 2006); Leonardo on Painting (with Margaret Walker, 1989); The Science of Art (1990); Spectacular Bodies (2000); Leonardo (2004); Leonardo da Vinci: Experience, Experiment, and Design (2006); Seen and Unseen (2006); The Human Animal in Western Art (2007); Leonardo da Vinci: Madonna of the Yarnwinder (with Thereza Wells, 2012); Structural Intuitions (2016); and Mona Lisa: The People and the Painting (with Giuseppe Pallanti, 2017).
Matthew Landrus
(PhD, 2006) is a Research Fellow at Wolfson College and the Faculty of History at Oxford University. His publications address engagements between early modern visual culture, natural philosophy, and technology. His books include The Treasures of Leonardo (2006); Leonardo da Vinciâs Giant Crossbow (2010); Le Armi e le Macchine da Guerra: il de re Militari di Leonardo (2010); and Instruments and Mechanisms: Leonardo and the Art of Engineering (2013).
Maria Rascaglia
who was trained in Philosophy, is Curator of Manuscripts and Vice-Director of the National Library in Naples. She has published widely on Italian philosophy and the history of southern Italy from the seventeenth to the nineteenth century. She transcribed the Leonardo manuscript in Alfredo Buccaro, ed., Leonardo da Vinci, Il codice Corazza nella Biblioteca Nazionale di Napoli, con la riproduzione in facsimile del Ms. XII D 79 (2011).
Anna Sconza
(PhD, 2007) is Associate Professor (Maître de Conférences) in Italian Studies, with special emphasis in Renaissance Literature and Arts, at the Sorbonne University (Sorbonne Nouvelle-Paris 3). She has published many articles on Leonardo da Vinciâs writings and edited the first modern Italian and French edition of the Trattato della pittura (Paris: Langlois, 1651) (2012).
Carlo Vecce
(PhD, 1986), a widely published scholar of Italian literature and Renaissance culture, is Professor of Italian Studies at the University of Naples âLâOrientale.â He is co-author (with Carlo Pedretti) of the critical editions of Leonardoâs Libro di pittura (1995) and the Codex Arundel (1998); and author of the biography, Leonardo (1998; rev. ed. 2006).