Leonardo's Fables

Sources, Iconography and Science
Erscheinungsjahr 2023
ISBN: 978-90-04-23600-4
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 3, 260 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 656 g

Reihe: Leonardo Studies

Leonardo’s Fables explores the compositional methods and sources of Leonardo’s fables and their relationship to illustrations and scientific studies. By concentrating on the chaotic character of Leonardo’s textual and visual annotations, the author gradually discloses the artist’s creative thinking that uses the page as a space for experimentation.

Fables allow Leonardo to tie together his technical and artistic skills, empirical observation, and experience to reveal the interactive forces at the basis of physical phenomena and the tensions between painting and humanistic culture. This study reevaluates Leonardo’s fables as part of a literary, aesthetic, and scientific project aimed at the investigation of Nature.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Cirnigliaro, Giuditta

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Romanische Literaturen Italienische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Wissenschafts- und Universitätsgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturtheorie: Poetik und Literaturästhetik
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften: Allgemeines Geschichte der Naturwissenschaften, Formalen Wissenschaften & Technik
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstgeschichte Kunstgeschichte: Renaissance, Manierismus

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments

List of Figures

Introduction: The Paper and the Ink: Matter and Methodology

1 Collections of Words and Images

1 Book of My Words

2 Book of My Pictures

3 From Rebus to Fable

2 Scientific Didactic and Fable Books from Leonardo’s Library

1 ‘Pliny,’ Bestiaries, and Encyclopedic Knowledge

2 ‘Aesop’ and Fabular Culture

3 Nut Metamorphosis: Nature, Art, and Technology

3 Word-and-Image Mechanisms

1 Literature on the artes mechanicae

2 Cause and Effect in Technical and Fabular Thought

3 Fables as Mechanical Metaphors

Conclusions

Appendix 1: Leonardo da Vinci: Fables

Appendix 2: Recurrent Models in the Fables

Appendix 3: Codices

Appendix 4: Books

Bibliography

Index of Names

Über Autor(innen)

Giuditta Cirnigliaro, Ph.D. (2018, Rutgers University) works on the intersections between Italian literature and the visual arts. She has published articles on Leonardo, word and image, digital and material studies, and edited Leonardo’s Favole e profezie with Carlo Vecce (Garzanti, 2019).