The fabrication of Leonardo da Vinci's Trattato della pittura : with a scholarly edition of the editio princeps (1651) and an annotated English translation

Author(s)

• Farago, Claire J.
• Bell, Janis Callen
• Vecce, Carlo
• Barone, Juliana
• Leonardo, da Vinci

Bibliographic Information

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 ... [et al.]

（Brill's studies in intellectual history, v. 263 . Brill's studies on art, art history, and intellectual history ; v. 18）

Brill, c2018

• : set
• v. 1 : hardback
• v. 2 : hardback

Note

Includes bibliographical references (p. [1088]-1124) and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

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.

Table of Contents

Volume 1 List of Illustrations Foreword Martin Kemp Preface and Acknowledgments List of Manuscript Abbreviations List of Frequently Cited Sources Introduction: Defining a Historical Approach to Leonardo's Trattato della pittura Claire Farago MILAN 1. Before the Trattato: Philological Notes on the Libro di pittura in the Codex Urbinas 1270 Carlo Vecce 2. Leonardo's Workshop Procedures and the Trattato della pittura Claire Farago Introduction Part One: The Optics of Painting in Leonardo's Workshop and the Trattato Part Two: The Training of the Artist and the Trattato Part Three: The Mechanics of Human Movement in the Trattato 3. Leonardo's Lost Book on Painting and Human Movements Matthew Landrus URBINO 4. On the Origins of the Trattato and the Earliest Reception of the Libro di pittura Claire Farago FLORENCE 5. The Earliest Abridged Copies of the Libro di pittura in Florence Anna Sconza ROME TO PARIS 6. Seventeenth-Century Transformations: Cassiano dal Pozzo's Manuscript Copy of the Abridged Libro di pittura Treatise on Painting Juliana Barone 7. The Final Text Janis Bell Part One: Raphael Trichet du Fresne as Textual Editor Part Two: Charles Errard and the Illustrations In Appendice The Visual Imagery of the Printed Editions of Leonardo's Treatise on Painting Mario Valentino Guffanti Volume 2 Text of the Trattato della pittura Editorial Procedures Introduction: Claire Farago and Janis Bell Editorial Criteria for the Transcription: Maria Rascaglia Establishing the Text of 1651: Claire Farago and Janis Bell Abbreviations Used in the Critical Apparatus Table of Contents of Trattato Chapters Transcription with Critical Apparatus: Carlo Vecce, Maria Rascaglia, and Anna Sconza English Translation: Janis Bell and Claire Farago Reader's Notes Introduction: Janis Bell Reader's Notes by Chapter: Janis Bell and Claire Farago Sources Cited in the Reader's Notes Primary Sources Secondary Sources In appendice A. Brooker 1: Janis Bell B. MS A, LdP, and ITAL 1651: Claire Farago C. Organization of the Trattato della pittura: Claire Farago D. Omissions, Trattato and LdP: Claire Farago E. Variants in the Early Florentine Manuscripts: Anna Sconza F. Leonardo's Library: Claire Farago

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• NCID: BB25845356
• ISBN:
  • 9789004353756
  • 9789004353749
  • 9789004353725
• LCCN: 2017054568
• Country Code: ne
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Original Language Code: ita
• Place of Publication: Leiden
• Pages/Volumes: 2 v. (lvi, 1303 p.)
• Size: 26 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : ND1471
  • DC23 : 709.2
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Leonardo, da Vinci, 1452-1519. Trattato della pittura
  • LCSH : Painting -- Technique -- Early works to 1800
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA0144067X