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Book Synopsis
This book examines the complex relationship between style and ethics in the early modern period by focusing on Leonardo da Vinci’s exemplary status in the narrative history of art.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements
List of illustrations
Claire Farago, Introduction: seeing style otherwise
1. Catherine Soussloff, Discourse/figure/love: the location of style in early modern sources on Leonardo da Vinci
2. Mary Pardo, Leonardo da Vinci on the painter’s task: memory/imagination/figuration
3. Robert Zwijnenberg, John the Baptist and the essence of painting
4. Fredrika H. Jacobs, Leonardo, grazia, and the gendering of style
5. Claire Farago, Three ducats in Venice’: connecting Giorgione and Leonardo
6. Janis Bell, Sfumato and acuity perspective
7. Pauline Maguire Robison, Leonardo’s Trattato della pittura, Nicolas Poussin, and the pursuit of eloquence in seventeenth-century France
Consolidated bibliography
List of contributors
Notes
Index

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      Publisher: Manchester University Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 01/09/2008
      ISBN13: 9780719078149, 978-0719078149
      ISBN10: 719078148

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      This book examines the complex relationship between style and ethics in the early modern period by focusing on Leonardo da Vinci’s exemplary status in the narrative history of art.

      Table of Contents

      Acknowledgements
      List of illustrations
      Claire Farago, Introduction: seeing style otherwise
      1. Catherine Soussloff, Discourse/figure/love: the location of style in early modern sources on Leonardo da Vinci
      2. Mary Pardo, Leonardo da Vinci on the painter’s task: memory/imagination/figuration
      3. Robert Zwijnenberg, John the Baptist and the essence of painting
      4. Fredrika H. Jacobs, Leonardo, grazia, and the gendering of style
      5. Claire Farago, Three ducats in Venice’: connecting Giorgione and Leonardo
      6. Janis Bell, Sfumato and acuity perspective
      7. Pauline Maguire Robison, Leonardo’s Trattato della pittura, Nicolas Poussin, and the pursuit of eloquence in seventeenth-century France
      Consolidated bibliography
      List of contributors
      Notes
      Index

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