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Book SynopsisIlluminating 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 ContentsPrefaces List of Figures Introduction Constance Moffatt and Sara Taglialagamba Part 1 Books and Influence 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 Part 2 Dissemination of Knowledge 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 Marani Part 3 Architecture 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 Part 4 Painting and Drawing 10 Why Did Leonardo Not Finish the Adoration of the Magi? Francesca Fiorani 11 “Here’s Looking at You” The Cartoon for the So-called ‘Nude Mona Lisa’ 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 Part 5 Machines 14 A Machine to Build Artilleries Andrea Bernardoni 15 Bombards and Noisy Bullets: Pietro Monte and Leonardo da Vinci’s Collaboration Pascal Brioist 16 Leonardo and the Artes Mechanicae Romano Nanni Part 6 Sculpture 17 “The Sculptor Says” Leonardo and Gian Cristoforo Romano Carlo Vecce 18 Leonardo and the Trivulzio Monument: Some Questions and Evidence (1507–1518) Marino Viganò Part 7 Science and Nature: The Body, the Body of the Earth 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: Models, Influences, and Reprises Featured in the Art of Garden Design Sara Taglialagamba 22 Pyramids, Rays 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 Index
