Leonardo e Vitruvio : oltre il cerchio e il quadrato
- Submitting institution
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University of St Andrews
- Unit of assessment
- 32 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
- Output identifier
- 268294025
- Type
- B - Edited book
- DOI
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- Publisher
- Marsilio
- ISBN
- 9788829703265
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
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- Year of publication
- 2019
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
- No
- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
- No
- Number of additional authors
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0
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
- No
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
- Beyond authoring the first essay in the volume as well as one of five shorter, object-focused essays in the second half of the book, the attributed individual conceived of, designed, planned, assembled and edited the work. The attributed individual commissioned the essays from an international team of scholars (from the universities of Florence, Venice, Milan, Harvard, Stanford, Oxford and Provence) who are active in a variety of different disciplines (linguistics, classics, the history of art, the history of architecture and the history of science). The combination of their expertise and approaches required extensive editorial work to give the volume a coherent and integrated voice. In their capacity as editor, the attributed individual sent each chapter to one or more reviewers as well as to copyeditors, commissioned the foreword, and worked in consultation with the publisher on format, layout, plates and cover. As a liaison between different funding bodies, the attributed individual coordinated the activity of two research centers (Centro Studi Vitruviani; Centro Internazionale di Architettura Andrea Palladio) and other public sponsors. Although conceived as a self-standing publication, the volume also served also as catalogue for the eponymous exhibition, which the attributed individual co-curated with two colleagues. The attributed individual presented the work at two scholarly conferences (in Paris and in Fano) and several media interviews.
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- Non-English
- Yes
- English abstract
- Published in Italian, the first book-length study dedicated to Leonardo's engagement with Vitruvius's De architectura. The "Vitruvian Man", arguably the most famous Renaissance drawing, has taken center stage in any discussion of Leonardo's reading of Vitruvius, obscuring the extent and complexity of the treatise's influence. This reached well beyond the theory of human proportion, into fields as diverse as hydrology, meteorology, geometry and military engineering. The volume sheds light on the much broader role that Vitruvius played in Leonardo's research, revealing a critical, selective and purposeful reader that took full advantage of the encyclopedic nature of the ancient treatise.
