The fabrication of Leonardo da Vinci's Trattato della pittura : with a scholarly edition of the editio princeps (1651) and an annotated English translation / by Claire Farago, Janis Bell, Carlo Vecce ; with a foreword by Martin Kemp and additional contributions by Juliana Barone, Matthew Landrus, Maria Rascaglia, Anna Sconza, Mario Valentino Guffanti.
Volume 1 : Foreword / Martin Kemp -- Introduction: Defining a Historical Approach to Leonardo's Trattato della pittura / Claire Farago -- MILAN -- Before the Trattato: Philological Notes on the Libro di pittura in the Codex Urbinas 1270 / Carlo Vecce -- Leonardo's Workshop Procedures and the Trattato della pittura / Claire Farago -- Leonardo's Lost Book on Painting and Human Movements / Matthew Landrus -- URBINO -- On the Origins of the Trattato and the Earliest Reception of the Libro di pittura / Claire Farago -- FLORENCE -- The Earliest Abridged Copies of the Libro di pittura in Florence / Anna Sconza -- ROME TO PARIS -- Seventeenth-Century Transformations: Cassiano dal Pozzo's Manuscript Copy of the Abridged Libro di pittura Treatise on Painting / Juliana Barone -- The Final Text / Janis Bell. Volume 2 : Text of the Trattato della pittura, 1651 - Reader's Notes - In Appendice.
Summary:
The basis for our understanding of Leonardo's theory of art was, for over 150 years, his Treatise on Painting, which was issued in 1651 in Italian and French. This present volume offers both the first scholarly edition of the Italian editio princeps as well as the first complete English translation of this seminal work. In addition, It provides a comprehensive study of the Italian first edition, documenting how each editorial campaign that lead to it produced a different understanding of the artist's theory. What emerges is a rich cultural and textual history that foregrounds the transmission of artisanal knowledge from Leonardo's workshop in the Duchy of Milan to Carlo Borromeo's Milan, Cosimo I de' Medici's Florence, Urban VIII's Rome, and Louis XIV's Paris. -- ‡c From book jacket.
Series:
Brill's studies in intellectual history, 0920-8607 ; volume 263 Brill's studies on art, art history, and intellectual history ; volume 18
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.