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

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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.
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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.