Leonardo Da Vinci - Nature and Architecture

Erscheinungsjahr 2019
ISBN: 978-90-04-39243-4
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 2, 432 Seiten, Format (B × H): 166 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 976 g

Reihe: Leonardo Studies

The 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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Moffatt, Constance

Taglialagamba, Sara

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Wissenschafts- und Universitätsgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstgeschichte Kunstgeschichte: Renaissance, Manierismus
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften: Allgemeines Geschichte der Naturwissenschaften, Formalen Wissenschaften & Technik
• Geisteswissenschaften Architektur Geschichte der Architektur, Baugeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contents

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

Über Autor(innen)

Constance Moffatt, Ph.D. (1992), UCLA. Professor Emeritus of Art History, Los Angeles Pierce College. Her interests and publications are on the Sforza family of Milan, Vigevano, architectural history, and Leonardo da Vinci, She is Editor-in-Chief (with Sara Taglialagamba) of the Leonardo Studies series.

Sara Taglialagamba, Ph.D. (2010), Siena University, is Co-Director of the Rossana & Carlo Pedretti Foundation and a Post PhD at EPHE at Sorbonne (Paris). She has published many articles and books on Leonardo, including I cento disegni più belli di Leonardo with Carlo Pedretti.