Leonardo da Vinci Society Newsletter Editor: Matthew Landrus Issue 42, November 2015 Recent and forthcoming events did this affect the science of anatomy? This talk discusses the work of Leonardo da Vinci, The Annual General Meeting and Annual Vesalius and Fabricius and looks at how the Lecture 2016 nature of the new art inspired and shaped a new wave of research into the structure of the Professor Andrew Gregory (University College, human body and how such knowledge was London), will offer the Annual Lecture on Friday, transmitted in visual form. This ultimately 13 May at 6 pm. The lecture, entitled, ‘Art and led to a revolution in our under-standing of Anatomy in the 15th & 16th Centuries’ will be anatomy in the late 16th and early 17th centu- at the Kenneth Clark Lecture Theatre of the ries. Courtauld Institute of Art (Somerset House, The Strand). Before the lecture, at 5:30 pm, the annual Lectures and Conference Proceedings general meeting will address matters arising with the Society. Leonardo in Britain: Collections and Reception Venue: Birkbeck College, The National Gallery, The Warburg Institute, London Date: 25-27 May 2016 Organisers: Juliana Barone (Birkbeck, London) and Susanna Avery-Quash (National Gallery) Tickets: Available via the National Gallery’s website: http://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/whats- on/calendar/leonardo-in-britain-collections-and- reception With a focus on the reception of Leonardo in Britain, this conference will explore the important role and impact of Leonardo’s paintings and drawings in key British private and public collec- tions; and also look at the broader British context of the reception of his art and science by address- ing selected manuscripts and the first English editions of his Treatise on Painting, as well as historiographical approaches to Leonardo. The conference was initially conceived as a collabora- tive project between the late Romano Nanni, former director of the Biblioteca Leonardiana, and Juliana Barone at Birkbeck College, University of London, and has developed into a wider collabo- ration with the National Gallery, the Warburg Vesalius, De humani corporis fabrica, Basil 1543, p. 164 Institute, and the Kunsthistorisches Institut in Professor Gregory provides the following abstract Florence. This event has received support from for his talk: Developments in art in the 15th the Paul Mellon Centre for British Art, the British and 16th centuries brought with them a new Museum and the Leonardo da Vinci Society in interest in proportion, perspective and the London. accurate depiction of the human body. How The conference will begin with a keynote lecture Day 2: given by Professor Martin Kemp at Birkbeck on the evening of 25 May. It will continue over the 26 May 2016, National Gallery following two days at the National Gallery and the Warburg Institute. London Collections 10am Registration 10.30am Welcome and introduction: Juliana Barone (Birkbeck College) and Susanna Avery-Quash (National Gallery) 10.45am Panel 1: Drawings collections Chair: Francis Ames-Lewis (Birkbeck College) Martin Clayton (Royal Collection Trust, Windsor) – ‘The ‘Windsor’ Leonardos after Arundel’ 11.15am Jacqueline Thalmann (Christ Church Picture Gallery, Oxford) – ‘Leonardo in the collection of General John Guise (1682-1765)' 11.45am Hugo Chapman and Sarah Vowles (British Museum, London) – ‘Leonar- do drawings in Bloomsbury and beyond’ 12.15pm Discussion and Q&A 12.45pm Lunch (not provided) Programme (provisional) 1.45pm Panel 2: Originals, versions, and copies Chair: Gabriele Finaldi (National Day 1: Gallery) Carmen Bambach (The Metropolitan 25 May 2016, Birkbeck College, London Museum, New York) – ‘The St Anne Burlington cartoon: Keynote lecture function, provenance and dating’ 2.15pm Caroline Campbell and Larry Keith 4.45pm Registration (National Gallery) – ‘Some observa- tions on the provenance and conserva- 5.15pm Welcome and introduction: Juliana tion history of the London Virgin of the Barone (Birkbeck College) Rocks’ and Susanna Avery-Quash (National Gallery) 2.45pm Pietro Marani (Università Cattolica, Chair: Kate Retford (Birkbeck College) Politecnico, Milan) – ‘Clarifications and novelties on the 5.30pm Martin Kemp (Oxford University) – issue of the copy of the Last Supper at ‘Spinning a yarn or two: Leonardo’s the Royal Academy and its reception two matching Madonnas’ in England in the first half of the 19th 6.30pm Q&A and drinks century’ 3.15pm Discussion and Q&A The Leonardo da Vinci Society Page 2 Registered Charity 1012878 3.45pm Refreshment break 12.30pm Harry Mount (Oxford Brookes, Ox- 4.15pm Panel 3: What was thought to be a ford) – ‘Leonardo’s Treatise and the Leonardo? empirical undertow in British art Chair: Juliana Barone (Birkbeck theory’ College) 1pm Discussion and Q&A Margaret Dalivalle (Centre for Medie- 1.15pm Lunch (provided) val and Renaissance Studies, Oxford University) – ‘Said to be of Leonard de Vincia: Or out of his Scoule: Apprais- 2.15pm Panel 3: Teaching and theoretical ing Leonardo in 17th-century England’ knowledge 4.45pm Susanna Avery-Quash (National Chair: Paul Taylor (Warburg Institute) Gallery) – ‘Sir Charles Eastlake at the Charles Saumarez Smith (Royal National Gallery (1843-1865): towards Academy, London) – ‘Leonardo’s a clearer picture of Leonardo as an legacy in London: The teaching artist’ programme at the Royal Academy’ 5.15pm Discussion and Q&A 2.45pm Francesco Galluzzi (Accademia Belle Arti, Carrara) – ‘Alexander Cozens, Day 3: Leonardo da Vinci and landscape painting in England between the 18th 27 May 2016, The Warburg Institute, London and 19th century’ 3.15pm Discussion and Q&A Reception 3.30pm Refreshment break 10am Registration 4pm Panel 4: Re-reading Leonardo 10.10am Welcome and introduction: Chair: Martin Kemp (Oxford Universi- Juliana Barone (Birkbeck College) and ty) Susanna Avery-Quash Francesca Fiorani (University of (National Gallery) Virginia, Virginia) – ‘Kenneth Clark’s Leonardo’ 10.15am Panel 1: Leonardo on art and science 4.30pm Alessandro Nova (Kunsthistorisches Chair: Matthew Landrus (Oxford Institut, Florence) – ‘John Shearman’s University) Leonardo’ J.V. Field (Birkbeck College) – ‘Leonardo’s after-life in the world of new philosophy’ 5pm Claire Farago (University of Colorado 10.45am Domenico Laurenza (Museo Galileo, at Boulder, Colorado) – Florence) –‘Leonardo’s science in ‘Re-reading Richter and MacCurdy: 17th-18th-century England’ lessons in translation’ 11.15am Discussion and Q&A 5.30pm Discussion and Q&A, concluding remarks 11.30am Refreshment break 12pm Panel 2: Around the Treatise on Painting With special thanks to: Chair: Susanna Avery-Quash (National Monica Taddei, The Biblioteca Leonardiana, Gallery) Vinci Juliana Barone (Birkbeck College) – ‘The Treatise on Painting: British collectors’ manuscript copies and the first English printed edition’ The Leonardo da Vinci Society Page 3 Registered Charity 1012878 With grateful thanks to: honouring Carlo Pedretti, was published by Brill in January 2016: www.brill.com/products/series/leonardo-studies. See pages 20-21 of the present Newsletter. Volume two of Leonardo Studies will focus primarily on architecture and on nature. Editors of this series welcome contributions to this second volume. If you should like to contribute an essay that addresses architecture and Leonardo or the topic of nature, please contact Dr Constance Moffatt (Pierce College), [email protected], and Dr Sara Taglialagamba (Ecole pratique des hautes etudes, Sorbonne), saraart77@ yahoo.it. The editors welcome collaborative projects and cross- disciplinary studies. On a related topic, Drs Moffatt and Taglialagamba organised the follow- ing panels at the 2015 RSA meeting: Leonardo Studies I: Architecture Renaissance Society of America Chair: Sabine Frommel (École Pratique des Berlin, 26-28 March 2015 Hautes Études, Sorbonne) Damiano Iacobone, (Politecnico di Milano): The Renaissance Society of America Annual To Live in a House Designed by Leonardo da Meeting in Berlin was an impressive event, Vinci involving 3070 participants in 2324 panels. Sara Taglialagamba, (Ecole pratique des Attendees chose from among 166 panels per time hautes etudes): Leonardo’s ‘edifi ci d’acqua’ period, and could thereby develop a highly Francesco Paolo Di Teodoro, (Politecnico di selective programme for the three days, though of Torino): Leonardo Architect? course all of those panels were of some interest to Constance Joan Moffatt, (Pierce College): Le- a Renaissance scholar. This is the nature of the onardo’s Modularity expanding RSA, which arranged 1938 panels at Leonardo Studies II: Leonardo by Design the 2012 meeting in Washington, D.C., whereas Chair: Damiano Iacobone (Politecnico di Mi- there were 413 panels at the 2004 RSA meeting in lano) New York City. The 2016 RSA meeting in Marie Frank (University of Massachusetts Boston will mark the 45th year of annual meet- Lowell): Leonardo’s Legacy in Early Twentieth- ings, the past ten of which have seen a 563% Century American Design Theory increase in the number of panels. It would seem Diane Ghirardo (University of Southern Cali- that a fourth day at the meeting is now required, fornia): Idea and Authorship in Renaissance so that attendees are less likely to miss a large Architecture number of impressive presentations that are Catherine H. Lusheck (University of San concurrent with presentations they must also Francisco): Leonardo’s Afterlife in Rubens’s attend. Studies of Nature As a record of Leonardo-related talks at the Matthew Landrus (University of Oxford): Ev- RSA,