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Leonardo da Vinci â Nature and Architecture
Series: - Leonardo Studies, Volume: 2
The second volume of Leonardo Studies explores a dual theme of nature and architecture, offering a wide-ranging overview of current Leonardo scholarship on these two abundant subjects. While Leonardo worked on his Treatise on Painting, he noted that understanding the physical properties of nature must precede individual projects of painting or designing buildings. The volume begins with the Trattato, and follows with physics, geology, painting that imitates architectural structure and vice-versa, and proceeds to architectural projects, questions of attribution, urban planning, and and the dissemination of Leonardoâs writings in the Trattato and its historiography. This impressive group of articles constitutes not only new research, but also a departure point for future studies on these topics.
Contributors are: Janis Bell, Andrea Bernardoni, Marco Carpiceci, Paolo Cavagnero, Fabio Colonnese, Kay Etheridge, Diane Ghirardo, Claudio Giorgione, Domenico Laurenza, Catherine Lucheck, Silvio Mara, Jill Pederson, Richard Schofield, Sara Taglialagamba, Cristiano Tessari, Marco Versiero, and Raffaella Zama.
Contributors are: Janis Bell, Andrea Bernardoni, Marco Carpiceci, Paolo Cavagnero, Fabio Colonnese, Kay Etheridge, Diane Ghirardo, Claudio Giorgione, Domenico Laurenza, Catherine Lucheck, Silvio Mara, Jill Pederson, Richard Schofield, Sara Taglialagamba, Cristiano Tessari, Marco Versiero, and Raffaella Zama.
Constance Moffatt, Ph.D. (1992), UCLA. Professor Emeritus of Art History, Los Angeles Pierce College. Her interests and publications are on the Sforza family of Milan, Vigevano, architectural history, and Leonardo da Vinci, She is Editor-in-Chief (with Sara Taglialagamba) of the Leonardo Studies series.
Sara Taglialagamba, Ph.D. (2010), Siena University, is Co-Director of the Rossana & Carlo Pedretti Foundation and a Post PhD at EPHE at Sorbonne (Paris). She has published many articles and books on Leonardo, including I cento disegni più belli di Leonardo with Carlo Pedretti.
Sara Taglialagamba, Ph.D. (2010), Siena University, is Co-Director of the Rossana & Carlo Pedretti Foundation and a Post PhD at EPHE at Sorbonne (Paris). She has published many articles and books on Leonardo, including I cento disegni più belli di Leonardo with Carlo Pedretti.
âThis volume provides a broad and rich discussion of the artist from a variety of viewpoints. It is enhanced with numerous color illustrations, detailed footnotes, and a bibliography. [â¦] the patient reader will find much that is novel and illuminating within these pages, and come away looking forward to the next installment in the Leonardo Studies series.â
Caroline Hillard, Wright State University. In: Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. 74, No. 2 (Summer 2021), pp. 580â582.
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Matthew Landrus, University of Oxford. In: The Art Newspaper, No. 318 (December 2019), p. 15.
Caroline Hillard, Wright State University. In: Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. 74, No. 2 (Summer 2021), pp. 580â582.
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Matthew Landrus, University of Oxford. In: The Art Newspaper, No. 318 (December 2019), p. 15.
Contents
Acknowledgments
List of Figures
Introduction
Part 1
Natural Properties and Nature
â1âThe Treatise on Painting as a Guide to Nature: Light and Color
âJanis Bell
â2âExperimenting and Measuring Natural Powers: a Preliminary Study on Leonardoâs Ways to Quantify the Intensity of Percussion
âAndrea Bernardoni
â3âThe Weight of Water
âPaolo Cavagnero
â4âLeonardo and the Whale
âKay Etheridge
â5âGeology and Anatomy in the SixteenthâNineteenth Centuries: Some Suggestions towards a Comparative Analysis
âDomenico Laurenza
â6âLeonardoâs Brambles and Their Afterlife in Rubensâs Studies of Nature
âCatherine H. Lusheck
â7ââUnder the Shade of the Mulberry Treeâ: Reconstructing Nature in Leonardoâs Sala delle Asse
âJill Pederson
Part 2
Architecture
â8âLeonardo, St. Jerome, and the Illyriansâ Church in Rome
âMarco Carpiceci and Fabio Colonnese
â9âIdea and Authorship in Renaissance Architecture
âDiane Yvonne Francis Ghirardo
â10âA Humanistic Debate in Renaissance Milan surrounding the Tiburio of the Duomo, from Filarete to Bramante and Leonardo da Vinci
âClaudio Giorgione
â11âLeonardo and Architecture in the Critical Views of Giuseppe Bossi (1808-1810)
âSilvio Mara
â12âAspects of Church Design from Brunelleschi and Alberti to Leonardo and Bramante
âRichard Schofield and Cristiano Tessari
â13âLeonardoâs edifici dâacqua
âSara Taglialagamba
â14âLeonardoâs Town Planning Studies: the Encounter of Nature, Economy and Politics
âMarco Versiero
â15âLudovico il Moro and the Dynastic Homeland as the âIdeal Cityâ: Cotignola in the Opinion of Leonardo and Luca Pacioli
âRaffaella Zama
Bibliography 385
Index
Acknowledgments
List of Figures
Introduction
Part 1
Natural Properties and Nature
â1âThe Treatise on Painting as a Guide to Nature: Light and Color
âJanis Bell
â2âExperimenting and Measuring Natural Powers: a Preliminary Study on Leonardoâs Ways to Quantify the Intensity of Percussion
âAndrea Bernardoni
â3âThe Weight of Water
âPaolo Cavagnero
â4âLeonardo and the Whale
âKay Etheridge
â5âGeology and Anatomy in the SixteenthâNineteenth Centuries: Some Suggestions towards a Comparative Analysis
âDomenico Laurenza
â6âLeonardoâs Brambles and Their Afterlife in Rubensâs Studies of Nature
âCatherine H. Lusheck
â7ââUnder the Shade of the Mulberry Treeâ: Reconstructing Nature in Leonardoâs Sala delle Asse
âJill Pederson
Part 2
Architecture
â8âLeonardo, St. Jerome, and the Illyriansâ Church in Rome
âMarco Carpiceci and Fabio Colonnese
â9âIdea and Authorship in Renaissance Architecture
âDiane Yvonne Francis Ghirardo
â10âA Humanistic Debate in Renaissance Milan surrounding the Tiburio of the Duomo, from Filarete to Bramante and Leonardo da Vinci
âClaudio Giorgione
â11âLeonardo and Architecture in the Critical Views of Giuseppe Bossi (1808-1810)
âSilvio Mara
â12âAspects of Church Design from Brunelleschi and Alberti to Leonardo and Bramante
âRichard Schofield and Cristiano Tessari
â13âLeonardoâs edifici dâacqua
âSara Taglialagamba
â14âLeonardoâs Town Planning Studies: the Encounter of Nature, Economy and Politics
âMarco Versiero
â15âLudovico il Moro and the Dynastic Homeland as the âIdeal Cityâ: Cotignola in the Opinion of Leonardo and Luca Pacioli
âRaffaella Zama
Bibliography 385
Index
All scholars, researchers, librarians and students interested in the Leonardo da Vinci's scholarly and artistic activities will enjoy reading these incisive new studies. Undergraduate and graduate students, academics, Leonardo scholars, and general readers will find more in-depth information on the science and theory of Leonardo than is generally found. Keywords: Renaissance architecture, nature studies, percussion, physics, drawing, female architectural patronage, Sala delle Asse, Sforza, Treatise on Painting, Cathedral of Milan, town planning, Cotignola, Rubens and Leonardo, weight of water.