The aim of the Study Days is to focus the attention of international scholars working in a variety of fields, and of Leonardo experts and enthusiasts, on studies and research regarding the transmission of da Vinci’s ideas and writings and their circulation and reception in Italy and across Europe during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. In the abridged version known as the Treatise on Painting, the Libro di Pittura compiled by Francesco Melzi was widely circulated in the decades following Leonardo’s death. Avidly read by artists and collectors closely associated with the accademie del disegno, it profoundly influenced the theory, practice and teaching of the time. The speakers will examine previously unexplored or little-known aspects (biographical, linguistic, theoretical, graphic and collection-related) of the complex historical process via which Melzi’s re-elaboration of a group of Leonardo’s original manuscripts, and his subsequent compilation of the Codex Vaticanus Urbinas 1270, eventually led to the production of numerous manuscript copies and to the Italian editio princeps: the Trattato della Pittura di Lionardo da Vinci.

Conception and Scientific Responsibility: Francesco Moschini, Vita Segreto

Scientific Committee: Janis Bell, Francesco Cellini, Francesco MoschiniVita Segreto, Carlo Vecce

Thursday, 24 October 2019

9.30 Welcome adress: Francesco Cellini, Accademia Nazionale di San Luca

Introduction: Francesco Moschini, Accademia Nazionale di San Luca: Vita Segreto, Accademia di Belle Arti, Roma

Session I Circulation: Chair Francesca Fiorani, University of Virginia, Charlottesville

  • 10.00 Leonardo, il Trattato, gli scritti: l’eredità lombarda e un’alterna fortuna: Giulio Bora, Veneranda Biblioteca Ambrosiana, Milano
  • 10.30 La fortuna dei disegni architettonici di Leonardo nel primo Cinquecento: Sabine Frommel, École Pratique des Hautes Études, PSL Université, Paris

11.00 Coffee break

  • 11.30 Giovan Francesco Melzi, allievo ed erede di Leonardo: Furio Rinaldi, Department of Old Master Drawings, Christie’s, New York
  • 12.00 Dei movimenti dell’uomo ovvero di Leonardo in Accademia: Vita Segreto, Accademia di Belle Arti, Roma

12.30 Discussion

13.30 Light lunch

Keynote lecture: 15.00 Genesi del Libro di Pittura: Carlo Vecce, Università degli Studi ‘L’Orientale’, Napoli

Session II Transmission: Chair Anna Sconza, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris 3

  • 15.45 Il Vat. Lat. 1270 da Milano a Urbino. Fatti e ipotesi per la cessione: Rossana Sacchi, Università degli Studi, Milano
  • 16.15 Why the Doctored Libro di Pittura Transformed Leonardo da Vinci from Pittore Universale to Polymath: Francesca Fiorani, University of Virginia, Charlottesville
  • 16.45 Il libro perduto di Leonardo, sulla pittura e sui movimenti umani: Matthew Landrus, Wolfson College, University of Oxford

17.15 Discussion

Friday, 25 October 2019

Session III Reception: Chair Carlo Vecce, Università degli Studi ‘L’Orientale’, Napoli

  • 9.30 Purus pictor, non medicus nec philosophus. Cardano e Leonardo: Salvatore Carannante, Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa
  • 10.00 Lettori di Leonardo nella Firenze del tardo Cinquecento: Anna Sconza, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris 3
  • 10.30 From Diagrams to Landscapes: the Reception of Chapters on Aerial Perspective: Janis Bell, Brown University, Providence

11.00 Coffee break

  • 11.30 Leonardo’s Colors, Lomazzo’s Colors: Barbara Tramelli, St Benet’s Hall, University of Oxford
  • 12.00 Leggere Leonardo da Vinci nel Cinquecento a Roma: la recezione del Trattato della Pittura nel Corpus estetico di Federico Zuccari: Macarena Moralejo Ortega, Universidad de Granada

12.30 Discussion