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Author Farago, Claire

Title The Fabrication of Leonardo Da Vinci's Trattato Della Pittura : With a Scholarly Edition of the Italian Editio Princeps (1651) and an Annotated English Translation
Published Boston : BRILL, 2018

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Description 1 online resource (1371 pages)
Series Brill's Studies on Art, Art History, and Intellectual History Ser
Brill's Studies on Art, Art History, and Intellectual History Ser
Contents Intro; Contents; Foreword; Preface; A Note to the Reader; Acknowledgments; List of Contributors; List of Illustrations; Manuscript Abbreviations; Frequently Cited Sources; Introduction: Defining a Historical Approach to Leonardo's Trattato della pittura; On the Sponsorship of Prints; The Dedication to Queen Christina of Sweden; What Happened before 1640?; How Did the Trattato Project Originate?; Zaccolini's Contribution to Dal Pozzo's Project; When the Project Moved to France in 1640; The Trattato and the Académie royale; Production Values in the Printed Editions of 1651
The Broad Political PictureThe Trattato at the French Academy in 1651; Milan; Chapter 1 Before the Trattato: Philological Notes on the Libro di pittura in the Codex Urbinas 1270; Chapter 2 Leonardo's Workshop Procedures and the Trattato della pittura; Introduction; Part One: The Optics of Painting in Leonardo's Workshop and the Trattato; Theory in the Workshop; The Evidence in the Virgin of the Rocks; Text-Based Collaboration in the Workshop; From Workshop to the Trattato della pittura; Part Two: The Training of the Artist and the Trattato; The Libro di pittura as a Modern Workshop Manual
The Humanist Legacy of Artisanal EpistemologiesThe Seventeenth-Century Legacy and Beyond; The Purpose of Illusion in Sacred Painting; Part Three: The Mechanics of Human Movement in the Trattato; The Passages on Human Movement; Publishing in the Tridentine Era; Melzi's Role in Milan and Aristocratic Pleasures; The Organization of the Abridged Libro di pittura; Artisanal Epistemology and the Education of Artists; Anatomical Studies in the Later Sixteenth Century; Art Schools in Post-Tridentine Times; Drawing Manuals and the Reform of Artistic Education
Federico Zuccaro's Opinion of Leonardo's Treatise on PaintingChapter 3 Leonardo's Lost Book on Painting and Human Movements; Carlo Urbino's Regole del disegno; Regole, Books 1-3; Regole, Books 4-5; Appendix; Urbino; Chapter 4 On the Origins of the Trattato and the Earliest Reception of the Libro di pittura; When Did the Abridgment Take Place?; The Duke of Urbino and His Library; The Duke's Ties with the Caracciolini; The Duke's Library as a Setting for the Libro di pittura; Who Wanted to Publish the Treatise on Painting?; What Does It Mean for Art to Be "Artless"?
The Manuscript Evidence in Historical ContextThe Abridged Text: What was Retained; The Abridged Libro di pittura as a Catholic Reformation Text; Florence; Chapter 5 The Earliest Abridged Copies of the Libro di pittura in Florence; The Reception of Leonardo's Writings ca. 1570-1580; MSS in Florentine Libraries; The Critical Variants in Four Florentine Copies; The Illustrations of the Florentine Copies; Conclusions; Rome to Paris; Chapter 6 Seventeenth-Century Transformations: Cassiano dal Pozzo's Manuscript Copy of the Abridged Libro di pittura; The Roman Context
Notes The Abridged Libro Text in Rome: Sources and Search for Accuracy
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Subject Leonardo, da Vinci, 1452-1519. Trattato della pittura.
SUBJECT Trattato della pittura (Leonardo, da Vinci) fast (OCoLC)fst01360257
Subject Painting -- Technique -- Early works to 1800
Painting -- Technique.
Genre/Form Early works.
Form Electronic book
Author Bell, Janis
Vecce, Carlo
ISBN 9789004353787
900435378X