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Book SynopsisThe 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 must precede individual projects of painting or designing buildings. The volume begins with the Trattato, and follows with physics, geology, painting that imitates architectural structure and vice-versa, and proceeds to architectural projects, questions of attribution, urban planning, and and the dissemination of Leonardo’s writings in the Trattato and its historiography. This impressive group of articles constitutes not only new research, but also a departure point for future studies on these topics. Contributors are: Janis Bell, Andrea Bernardoni, Marco Carpiceci, Paolo Cavagnero, Fabio Colonnese, Kay Etheridge, Diane Ghirardo, Claudio Giorgione, Domenico Laurenza, Catherine Lucheck, Silvio Mara, Jill Pederson, Richard Schofield, Sara Taglialagamba, Cristiano Tessari, Marco Versiero, and Raffaella Zama.
Trade Review“This volume provides a broad and rich discussion of the artist from a variety of viewpoints. It is enhanced with numerous color illustrations, detailed footnotes, and a bibliography. […] the patient reader will find much that is novel and illuminating within these pages, and come away looking forward to the next installment in the Leonardo Studies series.” Caroline Hillard, Wright State University. In: Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. 74, No. 2 (Summer 2021), pp. 580–582. “important” Matthew Landrus, University of Oxford. In: The Art Newspaper, No. 318 (December 2019), p. 15.
Table of ContentsContents Acknowledgments List of Figures Introduction Part 1 Natural Properties and Nature 1 The Treatise on Painting as a Guide to Nature: Light and Color Janis Bell 2 Experimenting and Measuring Natural Powers: a Preliminary Study on Leonardo’s Ways to Quantify the Intensity of Percussion Andrea Bernardoni 3 The Weight of Water Paolo Cavagnero 4 Leonardo and the Whale Kay Etheridge 5 Geology and Anatomy in the Sixteenth–Nineteenth Centuries: Some Suggestions towards a Comparative Analysis Domenico Laurenza 6 Leonardo’s Brambles and Their Afterlife in Rubens’s Studies of Nature Catherine H. Lusheck 7 “Under the Shade of the Mulberry Tree”: Reconstructing Nature in Leonardo’s Sala delle Asse Jill Pederson Part 2 Architecture 8 Leonardo, St. Jerome, and the Illyrians’ Church in Rome Marco Carpiceci and Fabio Colonnese 9 Idea and Authorship in Renaissance Architecture Diane Yvonne Francis Ghirardo 10 A Humanistic Debate in Renaissance Milan surrounding the Tiburio of the Duomo, from Filarete to Bramante and Leonardo da Vinci Claudio Giorgione 11 Leonardo and Architecture in the Critical Views of Giuseppe Bossi (1808-1810) Silvio Mara 12 Aspects of Church Design from Brunelleschi and Alberti to Leonardo and Bramante Richard Schofield and Cristiano Tessari 13 Leonardo’s edifici d’acqua Sara Taglialagamba 14 Leonardo’s Town Planning Studies: the Encounter of Nature, Economy and Politics Marco Versiero 15 Ludovico il Moro and the Dynastic Homeland as the “Ideal City”: Cotignola in the Opinion of Leonardo and Luca Pacioli Raffaella Zama Bibliography 385 Index
