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

• TeilnehmendeR: Moffatt, Constance,; Taglialagamba, Sara,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, Netherlands ;, Boston, Massachusetts : : Brill,, 2016.; ©2016
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Series: Leonardo Studies 1.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (400 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.
• Other title: Preliminary Material --; Introduction /; 1 One for the Books: A Bibliographical ‘Gleaning’ for CP /; 2 The Codex Corazza and Zaccolini’s Treatises in the Project of Cassiano dal Pozzo for the Spreading of Leonardo’s Works /; 3 A Copy of Sacrobosco’s Sphaera in Mirror Script Attributed to Matteo Zaccolini /; 4 A Short Note on Artisanal Epistemology in Leonardo’s Treatise on Painting /; 5 Leonardo’s Cartonetti for Luca Pacioli’s Platonic Bodies /; 6 Giuliano da Sangallo and Leonardo da Vinci: Cross-Pollination or Parallels? /; 7 Evidence of Leonardo’s Systematic Design Process for Palaces and Canals in Romorantin /; 8 Vitruvius in the Trattato dell’Architettura by Luca Pacioli /; 9 Notes on Leonardo and Vitruvius /; 10 Why Did Leonardo Not Finish the Adoration of the Magi? /; 11 “Here’s Looking at You” /; 12 Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa: A Portrait without a Commissioner? /; 13 Leonardo’s Followers in Lombardy: Girolamo and Giovan Ambrogio Figino /; 14 A Machine to “Build” Artilleries /; 15 Bombards and Noisy Bullets /; 16 Leonardo and the artes mechanicae /; 17 “The Sculptor Says” /; 18 Leonardo and the Trivulzio Monument: Some Questions and Evidence (1507–1518) /; 19 The Midpoint of the Human Body in Leonardo’s Drawings and in the Codex Huygens /; 20 Drawing Bridges: Leonardo da Vinci on Mastering Nature /; 21 Leonardo da Vinci’s Hydraulic Systems and Fountains for His French Patrons Louis XII, Charles d’Amboise and Francis I /; 22 Pyramids, Rays, Points, and “Spiritual Powers”: Leonardo’s Research during the Last Decade of the Fifteenth Century /; 23 A Hydraulic System Drawing by Leonardo: Some Evaluations /; 24 Leonardo’s Maps /; 25 Sightings, Mistakes and Discoveries “al verso” /; Essential Bibliography /; Index /
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• ISBN: 9004304134
• ISSN: 2352-8052
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: edited by Constance Moffatt, Sara Taglialagamba.

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.