The Leonardo Series
Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art (Verlag)
978-1-4384-5935-6 (ISBN)
Over the past forty-six years, Anthony Panzera has worked with the human figure as the center of his artistic expression. The issue of human proportion and an understanding of anatomy are essential to drawing the figure convincingly and have been of paramount concern for all artists since the ancient Greeks. Many artists have attempted to codify human proportions, and not least among them is Leonardo da Vinci (1452–1519).
Leonardo was a genius among artists and thinkers, and his Notebooks dealt with innumerable subjects: the flight of birds, the flow of water, anatomy, human proportion, and many other subjects. The lack of an organic visual and textual study of Leonardo's drawings and commentaries on human proportion led Panzera to a critical investigation of the master's work on the subject, focusing on the observations in his Notebooks. This was a daunting exercise as his notes are scattered throughout many pages and are in no particular order. Some are simply scribbled notations in Leonardo's tiny hand, squeezed in among various other notes of sometimes unrelated material, while others are beautiful drawings combined with detailed text, such as the brilliant Vitruvian Man.
Initially, Panzera began collecting Leonardo's observations on human proportion and then creating drawings from life to test the validity of the observations. What began as a number of isolated drawings gradually evolved into a thirty-year project, culminating in a total conceptualization of a one-to-one encounter between Leonardo's words and drawings and Panzera's analyses and drawings.
Leonardo never did get to fulfill his promise to organize his work on human proportion. This book attempts to do just that. Panzera organizes Leonardo's work by the individual parts of the body and takes it one step further by analyzing and verifying the accuracy of Leonardo's observations. In order to create a comprehensible guide to Leonardo's systems of proportion, each page includes a reference to a specific Leonardo drawing and observation, which is then faced by a page with the corresponding drawing by Panzera, accurately drawn and measured from life. The illustrations, analytical text, accompanying chapters that place Leonardo's work in the history of proportion, and reproductions of Leonardo's pages and drawings provide a clear and basic understanding of Leonardo's systems of proportion for artists, students, academics, and others interested in delving into the brilliant, diverse, and complicated mind of the master.
Anthony Panzera is Professor Emeritus, Department of Art, Hunter College, City University of New York.
Acknowledgments
Director’s Foreword
Preface
Part One: Introduction
1. A Short History of the Project
2. Notes on Using the Book
Part Two: The Leonardo Series: Sixty-Five Drawings
3. The Head: AP 101-120
4. The Torso: AP 121-140
5. The Whole Body: AP 141-160
6. The Leg and Foot: AP 161-180
7. The Arm and Hand: AP 181-200
Part Three: Leonardo’s Work on Proportion: Thirty Sheets
8. Thirty Drawings and Pages from Leonardo’s Notebooks
Part Four: A Brief History of Proportional Studies
9. The Ancient Greeks and the Ideal Form
10. Leonardo’s Vitruvian Man
11. Leonardo, Dürer, Lomazzo, and the Advent of the Academies
Part Five: Chronology
Leonardo’s Life, Times, and Notebooks
Part Six: Appendices
Appendix I: Definitions
Appendix II: Texts
Appendix III: Corcordances
Bibliography
| Zusatzinfo | 162 Illustrations, color; 9 Tables, black and white |
|---|---|
| Verlagsort | Albany |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 216 x 279 mm |
| Gewicht | 1225 g |
| Themenwelt | Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Malerei / Plastik |
| ISBN-10 | 1-4384-5935-1 / 1438459351 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-4384-5935-6 / 9781438459356 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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