Leonardo da Vinci and Architecture

Sabine Frommel, Jean Guillaume (Autoren)

Buch | Hardcover

302 Seiten

2024
Brill (Verlag)
978-90-04-53726-2 (ISBN)

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Leonardo’s architectural drawings examine churches, ephemeral monuments, urban reconstruction, fortifications, palaces, villas, and painted architecture. Mostly ideal in nature, they are part of the architectural evolution of the late Quattrocento and early Cinquecento.

Found scattered among his numerous manuscripts, Leonardo's studies on architecture were conceived during an artistic journey of close to fifty years while their author was in the service of the most prestigious patrons. Dealing with churches, ephemeral monuments, urban reconstruction, fortifications, palaces and villas, and painted architecture—mostly ideal in nature—they are part of the architectural evolution of the late quattrocento and early cinquecento. Leonardo's drawings assimilate the ideas of the pioneers of Renaissance architecture and focus on particular aspects, such as interventions on existing structures, classical orders, staircases, and decoration. Leonardo’s analysis sheds light on dialogues with Bramante, Francesco di Giorgio, Giuliano da Sangallo, Michelangelo, Baldassare Peruzzi and Antonio da Sangallo the Younger and allows us to better understand whether his contributions were innovative, or singular interpretations of the achievements of his time.

This is an augmented translation of Leonardo e l'architettura (Modena: Franco Cosimo Panini, 2019)

Sabine Frommel is the chair of Renaissance art history at the École Pratique des Hautes Études-PSL (Paris, Sciences et Lettres University), since 2003. Her research addresses the great architects of the Italian Renaissance, evolution of typologies, architectural languages, and migratory processes in Europe. Jean Guillaume is professor emeritus of Renaissance art history at the Sorbonne in Paris. His research focuses on Renaissance architecture in France and Italy, particularly in relation to French chateaux. He is currently working on a monograph on the Louvre and the Tuileries in the sixteenth century.

Preface

List of Figures

1 Leonardo and His Patrons

Sabine Frommel

1 A Silent Dialogue: Lorenzo the Magnificent

2 Leonardo at the Court of Lodovico Sforza

3 The “prestantissimo et delectissimo familiare architecto et ingegnero generale” of Cesare Borgia

4 Representatives of the King of France in Milan: Charles d’Amboise and Gian Giacomo Trivulzio

5 At the Court of LeoX

6 At the Court of FrancisI

2 The Painted Architecture

Sabine Frommel

1 From the Annunciation (Uffizi) to the Last Supper (Santa Maria delle Grazie)

2 Architectural Drawings for Potential Paintings and Stage Designs

3 The tiburio of Milan Cathedral

Jean Guillaume

1 The Structure of the tiburio

2 The Exterior Appearance: The Dome Preferred to the tiburio

3 A Two-Domed Structure

4 The Central-Plan Church

Jean Guillaume

1 Plan Types

2 Plans Expressed in Volumes

3 Elevations

4 A Church Façade

5 Leonardo and the Religious Architecture of the Renaissance

5 Funerary Monuments

Sabine Frommel

1 The Project for a Mausoleum

2 The Funerary Monument of Gian Giacomo Trivulzio

6 Urban Reconstruction and the Ideal City

Sabine Frommel

1 Contemporary Research on the New Form of the City: Imagined Space and the Treatise

2 Urban Reconstruction Projects in Milan: Functionality and Political Strategy

3 From the Medici to FrancisI: 1512–1519

4 A Different Method: Giuliano da Sangallo

7 Fortifications

Sabine Frommel

1 Drawings of Defensive Structures during the First Milanese Sojourn

2 Leonardo “architetto e ingenere generale” of Cesare Borgia

3 Projects since 1503: Again the Fortress of Piombino and the Second Sojourn in Milan

4 Leonardo’s Approach

8 Palaces and Villas

Sabine Frommel

1 Projects Linked to Specific Sites and Programs

2 The Country House of a Rich Landowner

3 The Villa of Charles d’Amboise

4 Villa Melzi

5 The Ideal Projects of Palaces and Villas with a Central Plan

6 The Façades

9 The Staircase with Several Ascents

Jean Guillaume

10 Architectural Language: The Use of Orders

Jean Guillaume

11 Theatrical Architecture, Festivals, and Ephemeral Constructions in Leonardo’s Work

Sara Taglialagamba

1 Mechanical Paradises

2 Entertainment: Animated Forms and “Marvelous” Works

3 In the Service of the French

12 Leonardo and Antique Architecture: A Versatile Dialogue

Sabine Frommel

1 Assimilation of the Pantheon

2 Variations on the tholos

3 Thoughts on the Villa Inspired by Antiquity

4 Adoptions of More Complex Modalities Derived from Antique Origins

13 Leonardo, His Contemporaries and His Legacy

Sabine Frommel

1 From Florence to Milan: The Expanding References

2 The Three Sojourns of Leonardo in Rome: Bramante and New Challenges

3 Filarete, Francesco di Giorgio, Leonardo da Vinci, and Baldassarre Peruzzi

4 The Florentines’ Network

5 Nachleben in the Drawing of the Codex Chlumzcanzky and in Serlio’s Treatise

14 Leonardo in France

Jean Guillaume

1 Romorantin

2 Chambord

15 Leonardo’s Singularity

Jean Guillaume

16 Leonardo the Architect?

Sabine Frommel

1 Is There a “Leonardo Method”?

2 From Inclinations to Principles

Bibliography

Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag	19.12.2024
Reihe/Serie	Leonardo Studies ; 4
Co-Autor	Sara Taglialagamba
Übersetzer	Carol Barbour
Verlagsort	Leiden
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Gewicht	1 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
	Technik ► Architektur
ISBN-10	90-04-53726-0 / 9004537260
ISBN-13	978-90-04-53726-2 / 9789004537262
Zustand	Neuware