Illuminating Leonardo : a festschrift for Carlo Pedretti celebrating his 70 years of scholarship (1944-2014) / edited by Constance Moffatt, Sara Taglialagamba.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Preface: "Poni il vero mezzo ... "; Constance Moffatt; Preface: "Masso Miglio Ala Formica"; Sara Taglialagamba; List of Figures; Introduction; Constance Moffatt and Sara Taglialagamba Moffatt and Taglialagamba; Part 1; Books and Influence ; Chapter 1; One for the Books: A Bibliographical "Gleaning" for CP; Max Marmor; Chapter 2; The Codex Corazza and Zaccolini's Treatises in the Project of Cassiano dal Pozzo for the Spreading of Leonardo's Works; Alfredo Buccaro; Chapter 3; A Copy of Sacrobosco's Sphaera in Mirror Script Attributed to Matteo Zaccolini; Domenico Laurenza; Part 2

Dissemination of KnowledgeChapter 4; A Short Note on Artisanal Epistemology in Leonardo's Treatise on Painting; Claire Farago; Chapter 5; Leonardo's Cartonetti for Luca Pacioli's Platonic Bodies; Pietro C. Marani; Part 3; Architecture; Chapter 6; Giuliano da Sangallo and Leonardo da Vinci: Cross-Pollination or Parallels?; Sabine Frommel; Chapter 7; Evidence of Leonardo's Systematic Design Process for Palaces and Canals in Romorantin; Matthew Landrus#Leonardo's Systematic Design Process for Romorantin; Chapter 8; Vitruvius in the Trattato dell'Architettura by Luca Pacioli

Francesco P. Di TeodoroChapter 9; Notes on Leonardo and Vitruvius; Richard Schofield; Part 4; Painting and Drawing; Chapter 10; Why Did Leonardo Not Finish the Adoration of the Magi?; Francesca Fiorani; Chapter 11; "Here's Looking at You": The Cartoon for the So-called Nude Mona Lisa; Martin Kemp; Chapter 12; Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa: A Portrait Without a Commissioner?; Joanna Woods-Marsden; Chapter 13; Leonardo's Followers in Lombardy. Girolamo and Giovan Ambrogio Figino; Annalisa Perissa Torrini; Part 5; Machines; Chapter 14; A Machine to "Build" Artilleries; Andrea Bernardoni

Chapter 15Bombards and Noisy Bullets; Pascal Brioist; Chapter 16; Leonardo and the artes mechanicae; Romano Nanni; Part 6; Sculpture; Chapter 17; "The Sculptor Says"; Carlo Vecce; Chapter 18; Leonardo and the Trivulzio Monument: Some Questions and Evidence (1507-1518); Marino Vigan�o; Part 7; Science and Nature: The Body, the Body of the Earth; Chapter 19; The Midpoint of the Human Body in Leonardo's Drawings and in the Codex Huygens; Paola Salvi; Chapter 20; Drawing Bridges: Leonardo da Vinci on Mastering Nature; Leslie Geddes; Chapter 21

Leonardo da Vinci's Hydraulic Systems and Fountains for His French Patrons Louis XII, Charles d'Amboise, and Francis ISara Taglialagamba; Chapter 22; Pyramids, Rays, Points, and "Spiritual Powers": Leonardo's Research during the Last Decade of the Fifteenth Century; Fabio Frosini; Chapter 23; A Hydraulic System Drawing by Leonardo: Some Evaluations; Damiano Iacobone; Chapter 24; Leonardo's Maps; Constance Moffatt; Chapter 25; Sightings, Mistakes, and Discoveries "al verso "; Alessandro Vezzosi; Essential Bibliography; Index

Illuminating 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 Vigano��, and Joanna Woods-Marsden.

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