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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 today, maintains Claire Farago in this wide-ranging critical analysis of the first important modern contribution to the comparison of the arts. This study systematically examines 46 passages compiled in the mid-sixteenth century from eighteen of Leonardo's notebooks and their relationship to the artist's holograph writings on painting, providing a critical transcription newly made from the Codex Vaticanus Urbinas 1270 and a new English translation with extensive notes that take into account Leonardo's scientific terminology, the highly contrived form of his rhetorical argumentation, and the role played by his original editors.

Painting --- Paragone (Aesthetics) --- Philosophy --- Leonardo, --- Aesthetics --- Codex Vaticanus Urbinas 1270 --- Ut pictura poesis (Aesthetics) --- Art and literature --- Humanism in art --- Philosophy. --- Da Vinci, Leonardo, --- Leonardo da Vinci, --- Léonard, --- Lieaonaduo, --- Lionardo, --- Liyūnārdū Dāvīnshī, --- Vinchi, Leonardo da, --- Vinci, Leonardo da, --- Леонардо да Винчи, --- Леонардо, --- לאונרדו, --- ליאונארדו, --- ליאונרדו דא וינצ׳י --- ליאורנרדו, --- Aesthetics. --- Codex Vaticanus Urbinas 1270. --- Codex Urbinas 1270 --- Codice Vaticano Urbinate latino 1270 --- Painting - Philosophy --- Leonardo, - da Vinci, - 1452-1519 - Aesthetics --- painting techniques --- paragone [concept] --- art theory --- kunstliteratuur --- Trattato della Pittura --- Leonardo da Vinci --- Leonardo, - da Vinci, - 1452-1519

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The basis for our understanding of Leonardo’s theory of art was, for over 150 years, his Treatise on Painting, which was issued in 1651 in Italian and French. This present volume offers both the first scholarly edition of the Italian editio princeps as well as the first complete English translation of this seminal work. In addition, It provides a comprehensive study of the Italian first edition, documenting how each editorial campaign that lead to it produced a different understanding of the artist’s theory. What emerges is a rich cultural and textual history that foregrounds the transmission of artisanal knowledge from Leonardo’s workshop in the Duchy of Milan to Carlo Borromeo’s Milan, Cosimo I de’ Medici’s Florence, Urban VIII’s Rome, and Louis XIV’s Paris.

Painting --- Technique --- Leonardo --- art theory --- painting techniques --- Trattato della Pittura --- Leonardo da Vinci --- E-books --- Leonardo, --- kunstliteratuur --- Leonardo - da Vinci - 1452-1519 - Trattato della pittura