Leonardo da Vinci : nature and architecture / / edited by Constance Moffatt, Sara Taglialagamba.
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 m...
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Place / Publishing House: | Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, [2019] |
Year of Publication: | 2019 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Leonardo Studies
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (449 pages). |
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Table of Contents:
- Front Matter
- AcknowledgmentsAcknowledgments
- Figures
- Notes on Contributors
- Introduction
- The Treatise on Painting as a Guide to Nature: Light and Color / Janis Bell
- Experimenting and Measuring Natural Powers: a Preliminary Study on Leonardo’s Ways to Quantify the Intensity of Percussion / Andrea Bernardoni
- The Weight of Water / Paolo Cavagnero
- Leonardo and the Whale / Kay Etheridge
- Geology and Anatomy in the Sixteenth–Nineteenth Centuries: Some Suggestions towards a Comparative Analysis / Domenico Laurenza
- Leonardo’s Brambles and Their Afterlife in Rubens’s Studies of Nature / Catherine H Lusheck
- “Under the Shade of the Mulberry Tree”: Reconstructing Nature in Leonardo’s Sala delle Asse / Jill Pederson
- Leonardo, St. Jerome, and the Illyrians’ Church in Rome / Marco Carpiceci and Fabio Colonnese
- Idea and Authorship in Renaissance Architecture / Diane Yvonne Francis Ghirardo
- A Humanistic Debate in Renaissance Milan Surrounding the Tiburio of the Duomo, from Filarete to Bramante and Leonardo da Vinci / Claudio Giorgione
- Leonardo and Architecture in the Critical Views of Giuseppe Bossi (1808–1810) / Silvio Mara
- Aspects of Church Design from Brunelleschi and Alberti to Leonardo and Bramante / Richard Schofield and Cristiano Tessari
- Leonardo’s edifici d’acqua / Sara Taglialagamba
- Leonardo’s Town Planning Studies: the Encounter of Nature, Economy and Politics / Marco Versiero
- Ludovico il Moro and the Dynastic Homeland as the “Ideal City”: Cotignola in the Opinion of Leonardo and Luca Pacioli / Raffaella Zama
- Back Matter
- Bibliography
- Index.