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Re-Reading Leonardo - The Treatise on Painting across Europe, 1550-1900 (Paperback)
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Re-Reading Leonardo - The Treatise on Painting across Europe, 1550-1900 (Paperback)
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For nearly three centuries Leonardo da Vinci's work was known
primarily through the abridged version of his Treatise on Painting,
first published in Paris in 1651 and soon translated into all the
major European languages. Here for the first time is a study that
examines the historical reception of this vastly influential text.
This collection charts the varied interpretations of Leonardo's
ideas in French, Italian, Spanish, English, German, Dutch, Flemish,
Greek, and Polish speaking environments where the Trattato was an
important resource for the academic instruction of artists, one of
the key sources drawn upon by art theorists, and widely read by a
diverse network of artists, architects, biographers, natural
philosophers, translators, astronomers, publishers, engineers,
theologians, aristocrats, lawyers, politicians, entrepreneurs, and
collectors. The cross-cultural approach employed here demonstrates
that Leonardo's Treatise on Painting is an ideal case study through
which to chart the institutionalization of art in Europe and beyond
for 400 years. The volume includes original essays by scholars
studying a wide variety of national and institutional settings. The
coherence of the volume is established by the shared subject matter
and interpretative aim: to understand how Leonardo's ideas were
used. With its focus on the active reception of an important text
overlooked in studies of the artist's solitary genius, the
collection takes Leonardo studies to a new level of historical
inquiry. Leonardo da Vinci's most significant contribution to
Western art was his interpretation of painting as a science
grounded in geometry and direct observation of nature. One of the
most important questions to emerge from this study is, what enabled
the same text to produce so many different styles of painting?
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