title: Leonardo da Vinci on painting: from the use of types to the criticism of types
creator: Zöllner, Frank
subject: ddc-700
subject: Arts
subject: ddc-750
subject: Painting
subject: Italy
subject: Aesthetics, Art History
subject: Painting
subject: Leonardo <da Vinci> / Anbetung der Könige
subject: Leonardo <da Vinci> / Trattato della pittura
subject: Alter <Motiv>
subject: Kunstkritik
subject: Kunstgeschichte <Fach>
description: Leonardo da Vinci's Adoration of the Magi of 1481/82 is dominated by two different figure types. In particular in the foreground, there are almost exclusively elderly men with a beard on the one side and angel-like young men on the other. It has long been recognized and discussed that Leonardo’s use of certain figure types in his paintings is deeply rooted in a Florentine tradition. In the first part of my paper I reconsider this discussion in view of the Florentine culture, in a second part I discuss Leonardo’s merits as theorist and his criticism of Florentine art.
contributor: Quaglino, Margherita
contributor: Sconza, Anna
date: 2022
type: Book Section
type: info:eu-repo/semantics/bookPart
type: NonPeerReviewed
identifier: https://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/artdok/9437/
format: application/pdf
identifier: https://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/artdokhttps://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/artdok/9437/1/Zoellner_Leonardo_da_Vinci_on_painting_from_the_use_of_types_to_the_criticism_of_types_2022.pdf
identifier: urn:nbn:de:bsz:16-artdok-94372
rights: info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
language: eng