Leonardo da Vinci : nature and architecture /

Leonardo da Vinci : nature and architecture / / edited by Constance Moffatt, Sara Taglialagamba.

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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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TeilnehmendeR:
Moffatt, Constance J.,
Taglialagamba, Sara,
Place / Publishing House:Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, [2019]
Year of Publication:2019
Language:English
Series:Leonardo Studies 2.
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.

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