Leonardo da Vinci – Nature and Architecture

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.

“This volume provides a broad and rich discussion of the artist from a variety of viewpoints. It is enhanced with numerous color illustrations, detailed footnotes, and a bibliography. […] the patient reader will find much that is novel and illuminating within these pages, and come away looking forward to the next installment in the Leonardo Studies series.”Caroline Hillard, Wright State University. In: Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. 74, No. 2 (Summer 2021), pp. 580–582. “important”Matthew Landrus, University of Oxford. In: The Art Newspaper, No. 318 (December 2019), p. 15.

• ContentsAcknowledgmentsList of FiguresIntroduction Part 1 Natural Properties and Nature 1 The Treatise on Painting as a Guide to Nature: Light and ColorJanis Bell2 Experimenting and Measuring Natural Powers: a Preliminary Study on Leonardo’s Ways to Quantify the Intensity of PercussionAndrea Bernardoni3 The Weight of WaterPaolo Cavagnero4 Leonardo and the WhaleKay Etheridge5 Geology and Anatomy in the Sixteenth–Nineteenth Centuries: Some Suggestions towards a Comparative AnalysisDomenico Laurenza6 Leonardo’s Brambles and Their Afterlife in Rubens’s Studies of NatureCatherine H. Lusheck7 “Under the Shade of the Mulberry Tree”: Reconstructing Nature in Leonardo’s Sala delle AsseJill PedersonPart 2 Architecture 8 Leonardo, St. Jerome, and the Illyrians’ Church in RomeMarco Carpiceci and Fabio Colonnese9 Idea and Authorship in Renaissance ArchitectureDiane Yvonne Francis Ghirardo10 A Humanistic Debate in Renaissance Milan surrounding the Tiburio of the Duomo, from Filarete to Bramante and Leonardo da VinciClaudio Giorgione11 Leonardo and Architecture in the Critical Views of Giuseppe Bossi (1808-1810)Silvio Mara12 Aspects of Church Design from Brunelleschi and Alberti to Leonardo and BramanteRichard Schofield and Cristiano Tessari13 Leonardo’s edifici d’acquaSara Taglialagamba14 Leonardo’s Town Planning Studies: the Encounter of Nature, Economy and PoliticsMarco Versiero15 Ludovico il Moro and the Dynastic Homeland as the “Ideal City”: Cotignola in the Opinion of Leonardo and Luca PacioliRaffaella ZamaBibliography 385Index