Re-Reading Leonardo
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Abridged Treatise
academic art instruction
Accademia Del Disegno
art theory history
Bartolomeo Ammanati
Belvedere Antinous
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Catherine M. Soussloff
Charlene Villasenor Black
Charlene VillaseOr Black
Charles Errard
Chrysa Damianaki
Codex Urbinas
cross-cultural art analysis
Du Fresne
Du Fresne's Edition
Du Fresne’s Edition
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French Art Theory
Geoff Quilley
geometry in painting
historical reception of art treatises
J.V. Field
Janis C. Bell
Javier Navarro De Zuvillaga
Juliana Barone
Leonardo's Ideas
Leonardo's Teachings
Leonardo's Text
Leonardo's Theory
Leonardo's Trattato
Leonardo's Trattato Della Pittura
Leonardo's Treatise
Leonardo's Writings
leonardos
Leonardo’s Ideas
Leonardo’s Teachings
Leonardo’s Text
Leonardo’s Theory
Leonardo’s Trattato
Leonardo’s Trattato Della Pittura
Leonardo’s Treatise
Leonardo’s Writings
Marcin Fabianski
Martin Kemp
Matteo Zaccolini
Mich-Caroline Heck
Michael Cole
Michele-Caroline Heck
Naples Edition
Pauline Maguire Robison
Poussin
Poussin's Figures
Poussin’s Figures
Real Academia De Bellas Artes
Richard Woodfield
Robert Williams
scientific observation in art
text
Thijs Weststeijn
Thomas Kirchner
Thomas Willette
Trattato Della Pittura
Trichet Du Fresne
Van Hoogstraten
visual culture studies
Product details
- ISBN 9780754665328
- Weight: 1756g
- Dimensions: 174 x 246mm
- Publication Date: 26 Mar 2009
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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For nearly three centuries Leonardo da Vinci's work was known primarily through the abridged version of his Treatise on Painting, first published in Paris in 1651 and soon translated into all the major European languages. Here for the first time is a study that examines the historical reception of this vastly influential text. This collection charts the varied interpretations of Leonardo's ideas in French, Italian, Spanish, English, German, Dutch, Flemish, Greek, and Polish speaking environments where the Trattato was an important resource for the academic instruction of artists, one of the key sources drawn upon by art theorists, and widely read by a diverse network of artists, architects, biographers, natural philosophers, translators, astronomers, publishers, engineers, theologians, aristocrats, lawyers, politicians, entrepreneurs, and collectors. The cross-cultural approach employed here demonstrates that Leonardo's Treatise on Painting is an ideal case study through which to chart the institutionalization of art in Europe and beyond for 400 years. The volume includes original essays by scholars studying a wide variety of national and institutional settings. The coherence of the volume is established by the shared subject matter and interpretative aim: to understand how Leonardo's ideas were used. With its focus on the active reception of an important text overlooked in studies of the artist's solitary genius, the collection takes Leonardo studies to a new level of historical inquiry. Leonardo da Vinci's most significant contribution to Western art was his interpretation of painting as a science grounded in geometry and direct observation of nature. One of the most important questions to emerge from this study is, what enabled the same text to produce so many different styles of painting?
Claire Farago is Professor of Early Modern Art, Theory, and Criticism at the University of Colorado at Boulder, USA.
