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.

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.

Table of 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.