Full 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.
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: Raphaël 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
