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• Introduction

• Themes and Essays
  • +  Music and Instruments
  • -  Leonardo’s inventing by sketching
  • -  Sonic mapping in Leonardo’s disegni
  • +  Bridges, maps, and scaffolds
  • -  Leonardo’s mobile bridges
  • -  Leonardo da Vinci and mapmaking
  • -  Scaffolds and centerings: The representation of temporary architecture
  • +  Anatomy, religion, and humanism
  • -  On Bended Knee: The Anatomy of Devotion
  • -  Leonardo da Vinci: Art, Anatomy, and Humanism
  • -  Leonardo’s ‘Great Lady’: Between Life, Death, and Resurrection
  • +  Nature, animals, and philosophy
  • -  Perfecting nature: Empiricism, geometry and the rhetoric of liveliness in Leonardo’s Studies of Brambles, c. 1505-10
  • -  Leonardo’s mountains
  • -  Leonardo’s animals
  • -  Leonardo and the whale
  • -  Leonardo’s transformations of nature
  • -  On the nature of Leonardo’s things: Lightning and “the sea monster”
  • -  Leonardo, Lucretius and the end of all things
  • +  Optics and art
  • -  Leonardo’s Virgin of the Annunciation
  • -  Leonardo’s Annunciation in perspective
  • -  Leonardo's Battles of the Eye
  • -  Leonardo's early grotesque head
  • -  Leonardo and Pliny
  • -  The Mystery of Leonardo’s Self-portraits
  • -  Leonardo and the interpretation of paintings
  • -  Leonardo’s color in the early 20th century
  • +  Poetry
  • -  Sweet Gum

• Contributors
  • +  Authors
  • +  Editors

• Resources
  • +  Leonardo's Writings
  • +  Essential Bibliography
  • >  NEH Institute 2012
  • -  Introduction
  • -  Week 1
    Word & Image
  • -  Week 2
    Painting & Drawing
  • -  Week 3
    Craftsman & Scholars

Themes and Essays