Main entry:

Zwijnenberg, Robert, 1954-

Title & Author:

The writings and drawings of Leonardo da Vinci : order and chaos in early modern thought / Robert Zwijnenberg ; translated [from the Dutch original] by Caroline A. van Eck.

Publication:

New York : Cambridge University Press, 1999.

Description:

viii, 232 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm

Notes:
Translated from the original Dutch.
Includes excerpts from some of the writings of Leonardo da Vinci.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-229) and index.
1. Rhetoric. 1. Memory. 2. The Rhetorization of Painting. 3. Rhetoric and Leonardo. 4. Disegno -- 2. Theory and Practice. 1. Artes Liberales and Artes Mechanicae. 2. Cusanus. 3. Technical Drawings in the Work of Taccola and Francesco di Giorgio Martini. 4. Painting as a Science. 5. Il Cavallo -- 3. Drawing. 1. Stains on a Wall. 2. Pentimenti. 3. Mind and Hand -- 4. Writing. 1. Writing and Printing. 2. Punctuation and Cursive. 3. Writing and Reading. 4. Writing and Drawing. 5. The Vitruvian Man and the Map of Imola. 6. Reading the World -- 5. Linear Perspective. 1. Invention or Discovery? 2. Brunelleschi and Masaccio. 3. The Epistemological Power of Linear Perspective. 4. Points of View and Emotions. 5. Alberti, Compositio, and Linear Perspective. 6. Leonardo and Linear Perspective -- 6. The Anatomical Studies. 1. Anatomy and Order. 2. Regressus Demonstrativus. 3. Leonardo's Anatomical Drawings. 4. Quantita Continua -- Epilogue: A Labyrinthine Gaze. 1. The Ventola. 2. The Cartelle.
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Dust jacket.

Summary:

"This study is an effort to understand why writing and drawing were so important to Leonardo da Vinci, who, over his lifetime, filled about fifteen thousand pages with texts and images. Although focusing on the fragmentary and chaotic character of Leonardo's notes, Robert Zwijnenberg also examines important cultural developments, such as the renewed interest in classical rhetoric that occurred during the Italian Renaissance, as well as the work of scholars and artists who influenced Leonardo, including Cusanus, Alberti, Taccola, and Francesco di Giorgio Martini. Zwijnenberg's study also sheds new light on linear perspective and anatomy, the artist's most favored fields of study. Through this synthetic approach, Zwijnenberg demonstrates that Leonardo's obsessive writing and drawing enabled the artist to capture the infinite complexity of the world and that the physical acts of writing and drawing played an independent role in the intellectual process by which Leonardo made sense of the world around him."--Jacket.

Resources:
Table of contents
Publisher description
Table of Contents

ISBN:

0521632390 (hc)
9780521632393 (hc)

Subject:

Leonardo, da Vinci, 1452-1519 Criticism and interpretation.
Leonardo, da Vinci, 1452-1519 Notebooks, sketchbooks, etc.
Leonardo, da Vinci, 1452-1519 Critique et interprétation.
Leonardo, da Vinci, 1452-1519 Notes, esquisses, etc.
Leonardo, da Vinci, 1452-1519.
Léonard de Vinci, (1452-1519) Critique et interprétation.
Renaissance.
Art history
Literature history
Italy.

Form/genre:

Writings.
notebooks.
Notebooks.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Notebooks, sketchbooks, etc.
Biographies.
Cahiers.

Added entries:

Leonardo, da Vinci, 1452-1519.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 201856
Call No.: NA44.L581.9 Z9 1999
Status: Available