Books written by Claire Farago
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The Fabrication of Leonardo da Vinci’s Trattato della pittura: With a Scholarly Edition of the Italian editio princeps (1651) and...
... pattern books with the ones he considered to be earliest, Erhard Schön's Unterweisung der Proporzion (Nuremberg, ... with simple woodcut illustrations, although Schön's geometric analyses of heads and bodies are derived from Dürer.
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Art Is Not What You Think It Is
Art Is Not What You Think It Is utilizes original research to present a series of critical incursions into the current state of debate on the idea of art, making manifest what has been largely missing or unsaid in those discussions.
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Re-Reading Leonardo: "The Treatise on Painting across Europe, 1550?900 "
See Judith Bryce Cosimo Bartoli (1503–1572): the Career of the Florentine Polymath (Travaux d'Humanisme et Renaissance, Geneva: Librairie Droz, 1983), p. 315. On other publication projects of the time dealing with the arts by members of ...
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Re-Reading Leonardo: "The Treatise on Painting across Europe, 1550?900 "
surviving works give no indication of the kind of direct contact with artists or experience with artistic ... on Florentine painting, see D. Franklin, Painting in Renaissance Florence, 1500–1550 (New Haven CT and London, 2001), esp. pp.
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Grasping the World: The Idea of the Museum
Daniel J. Boorstin, 'The Realms of Pride and Awe', in Jay A. Levenson, ed., Circa 1492: Art in the Age of Exploration, Washington, D.C.: National Gallery of Art, and New Haven: Yale University Press, 1991, p. 17. 2.
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Leonardo da Vinci's Paragone: A Critical Interpretation with a New Edition of the Text in the Codex Urbinas
Leonardo da Vinci's arguments for the supremacy of painting over the arts of poetry, music, and sculpture address issues that have been relevant to debates over the nature of representation since the time Plato discussed imitation until ...