Leonardo Da Vinci and the ethics of style
By: edited by Claire Farago.
Contributors: Farago, Claire J.
Publisher: Manchester University Press; Distributed exclusively in the USA by Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Manchester; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 269
ISBN-13: 9780719078149
Subjects: Leonardo, -- da Vinci, -- 1452-1519 -- Criticism and interpretation
Description: This book offers wide-ranging historical interpretations from seven authors of the complex relationship between style and ethics in the early modern period.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [237]-263) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : seeing style otherwise / Claire Farago; title: Discourse/figure/love : the location of style in early modern sources on Leonardo da Vinci / Catherine M. Soussloff; title: Leonardo da Vinci on the painter's task : memory/imagination/figuration / Mary Pardo; title: St. John the Baptist and the essence of painting / Robert Zwijnenberg; title: Leonardo, grazia, and the gendering of style / Fredrika H. Jacobs; title: "Three ducats in Venice" : connecting Giorgione and Leonardo / Claire Farago; title: Sfumato and acuity perspective / Janis Bell; title: Leonardo's Trattato della Pittura, Nicolas Poussin, and the pursuit of eloquence in seventeenth-century France / Pauline Maguire Robison.