{"product_id":"illuminating-leonardo-a-festschrift-for-carlo-pedretti-celebrating-his-70-years-of-scholarship-1944-2014-9789004287556","title":"Illuminating Leonardo: A Festschrift for Carlo Pedretti Celebrating His 70 Years of Scholarship (1944–2014)","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIlluminating 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePrefaces 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","brand":"Brill","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53210665550167,"sku":"9789004287556","price":160.8,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/illuminating-leonardo-a-festschrift-for-carlo-pedretti-celebrating-his-70-years-of-scholarship-1944-2014-9789004287556","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}