Illuminating Leonardo

Constance Moffatt teaches art and architectural history at Los Angeles Pierce College. She has published on the Sforza, Leonardo, and Milanese history. Carlo Pedretti served as her dissertation advisor at UCLA, where she received her Ph.D. in art history.Sara Taglialagamba, PhD (2010), Siena University, is a researcher in Art History at INSR (Florence) and she is a Post PhD at EPHE at Sorbonne (Paris). She has published many articles and books, including I cento disegni più belli di Leonardo with Carlo Pedretti (Giunti-Treccani).

• PrefacesList of Figures Introduction Constance Moffatt and Sara TaglialagambaPart 1 Books and Influence1 One for the Books: A Bibliographical ‘Gleaning’ for CP Max Marmor2 The Codex Corazza and Zaccolini’s Treatises in the Project of Cassiano dal Pozzo for the Spreading of Leonardo’s Works Alfredo Buccaro3 A Copy of Sacrobosco’s Sphaera in Mirror Script Attributed to Matteo Zaccolini Domenico LaurenzaPart 2 Dissemination of Knowledge4 A Short Note on Artisanal Epistemology in Leonardo’s Treatise on Painting Claire Farago5 Leonardo’s Cartonetti for Luca Pacioli’s Platonic Bodies Pietro MaraniPart 3 Architecture6 Giuliano da Sangallo and Leonardo da Vinci: Cross-Pollination or Parallels? Sabine Frommel7 Evidence of Leonardo’s Systematic Design Process for Palaces and Canals in Romorantin Matthew Landrus8 Vitruvius in the Trattato dell’Architettura by Luca Pacioli Francesco Di Teodoro9 Notes on Leonardo and Vitruvius Richard SchofieldPart 4 Painting and Drawing10 Why Did Leonardo Not Finish the Adoration of the Magi? Francesca Fiorani11 “Here’s Looking at You” The Cartoon for the So-called ‘Nude Mona Lisa’ Martin Kemp12 Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa: A Portrait without a Commissioner? Joanna Woods-Marsden13 Leonardo’s Followers in Lombardy: Girolamo and Giovan Ambrogio Figino Annalisa Perissa TorriniPart 5 Machines14 A Machine to Build Artilleries Andrea Bernardoni15 Bombards and Noisy Bullets: Pietro Monte and Leonardo da Vinci’s Collaboration Pascal Brioist16 Leonardo and the Artes Mechanicae Romano NanniPart 6 Sculpture17 “The Sculptor Says” Leonardo and Gian Cristoforo Romano Carlo Vecce18 Leonardo and the Trivulzio Monument: Some Questions and Evidence (1507–1518) Marino ViganòPart 7 Science and Nature: The Body, the Body of the Earth19 The Midpoint of the Human Body in Leonardo’s Drawings and in the Codex Huygens Paola Salvi20 Drawing Bridges: Leonardo da Vinci on Mastering Nature Leslie Geddes21 Leonardo da Vinci’s Hydraulic Systems and Fountains for His French Patrons Louis XII, Charles D’Amboise and Francis I: Models, Influences, and Reprises Featured in the Art of Garden Design Sara Taglialagamba22 Pyramids, Rays and “Spiritual Powers”: Leonardo’s Research during the Last Decade of the Fifteenth Century Fabio Frosini23 A Hydraulic System Drawing by Leonardo: Some Evaluations Damiano Iacobone24 Leonardo’s Maps Constance Moffatt25 Sightings, Mistakes and Discoveries al verso Alessandro VezzosiEssential Bibliography Index