Index

Alberti, Leon Battista 6, 9–11, 13, 15–24, 27–38, 41–44, 54–55n, 56–57nn, 59n, 60–61n, 62–63n, 70, 71, 75–76, 81, 117, 139, 143, 144n, 154, fig 2, fig. 4

Alexander the Great 14, 15, 25, 26, 56, 63

Alfonso V of Aragon 40, 46

Alhazen 152–56

allegory 124, 144–46, 156

anagogy 124, 127, 135

Anastasis 125

Andrea da Firenze fig. 3

anima/animus 73, 77, 98, 107

Apelles 11, 13–15, 22, 25, 26, 52–53, 58–59, 70, 81

Apollo 35, 64–65

architecture 5, 28–30, 72, 79–80, 90, 93

Arezzo 131–32, 135, 142, 144, 147, 150, 162, fig. 25, fig. 30

Aristides 14, 26

Aristotelianism 17, 30, 55, 71, 73, 78, 81, 82, 88, 89

Athenodorus 62–63, 102

Aulus Gellius 39

Bacon, Roger 153–56

Bellini, Jacopo 41, 44, 52–53, 54n

Bembo, Pietro 110–12

Biondo, Flavio 41, 47n, 51n

Boiardo, Feltrino 48–49n

Borgo San Sepolcro, see Sansepolcro

building(s) 5, 10, 23, 29, 30, 34, 66, 78–81, 133; and see architecture

Camaldolese order 131, 134, 141

Camillo di Leonardo 49n

Caraffa, Cardinal Oliviero 103, 111

Carbone, Lodovico 71

Castagno, Andrea del 136

Castiglione, Baldassare 7, 16, 80n, 86

cause 10, 78–82

Cennini, Cennino 5, 6, 11, 36, 48–49n, 139–40

certification 155

circumscription 20

Città di Castello 131, 134

colour 2–6, 9, 17, 21–22, 54–55, 76–77, 96–97, 139–40, 164

commensio (Rudolph Agricola) 75

commensuration (Piero della Francesca) 5, 9

composition 2–3, 5–6, 21, 30, 95, 97

confraternities 131–34

Cotgrave, Randle 87, 95

crystalline humour 152–54

Curtius 56–57

Decembrio, Angelo 39–67

Decembrio, Pier Candido 40, 41–42

decorum 21, 23, 30

definition 8n, 9, 17, 93, 94

delineation 88, 89, 97

Dente, Marco 108, fig. 10

depiction 117, 123, 125, 127, 129–30, 158, 159; and see pictorial medium

description 22, 52–53, 56–59, 70, 98–116, 120–23; and see ekphrasis

design 4–6, 84, 87, 90–97, 102, 136, 143

dessein/dessin 87, 90, 94–95

destinata 10, 78, 79, 82

dialectic 8–12, 69–82

Diderot, Denis 55, 115

diligence 2, 3, 4, 7, 8, 16, 22, 95

Dioscuros 50n, fig. 6

disegno 2–3, 5–6, 16, 20, 26, 83–97

dispositio 75

distance 9, 17, 18, 58, 119, 123, 146–49, 156

Domenico Veneziano 130, 131, 140

Doni, Antonfrancesco 83

drapery (panni, pieghe) 2, 3, 4, 5, 21, 43, 44, 50–51

draught 87, 89, 93, 96–97

drawing 2, 4–6, 9, 18, 20, 69, 84, 85, 90, 94, 96, 97

Dürer, Albrecht 70, 72, 75

ekphrasis 70, 104, 110, 114, 115; and see description

equivocation 94, 125

Erasmus 69

d’Este, Borso 40, 44n, 45

d’Este, Ercole 54, 71, 131

d’Este, Leonello 39–44, 46–67, fig. 7

d’Este, Meliaduse 44

d’Este, Niccolò III 41, 49n, 54n

etymology 11, 12, 124

Eugenius IV, Pope 131

Eupompus 14, 26

Evelyn, John 94, 96

eye 9, 127–29, 152–57, 161, fig. 35

Ferrara 8, 28, 39–41, 46–67, 71, 74, 76, 103n, 107n

figure, human 2–5, 21, 36, 37, 41–44, 54–61, 70, 73, 104–05, 130–31, 133–35, 141–44, 164

fixation 109, 129, 135, 138

Flanders 2–3

Florence 1, 27, 31–33, 130–34, 144n, fig. 3, fig. 18, fig. 20, fig. 22, fig. 24

Florio, John 87, 96, 97

foreshortening 2–3, 6, 8, 12, 18, 148, 150

Fortebraccio da Montone, Niccolò 131

fovea 128, 137–38, fig. 27

fresco 23n, 158n, 162

gems, engraved 44, 48–49, 58–59, 62–65

genus/species 8, 9, 21

geometry 10, 12, 22

Ghiberti, Lorenzo 53n, 153n

Giotto 21, 23, fig. 3

gist, visual 109, 113, 129, 130, 155

glacial humour 153–55, fig. 35

Gonzaga, Lodovico 80, 81, fig. 1

Gregory, St 55, fig. 8

Gualengo, Giovanni 50n

Guarino of Verona 39, 40, 46–47, 48–49, 50–51, 64–65, 70, 71, 75, 107n

Guarino, Battista 71

Hagesander 102

harmonic proportion 11, 29

Haydocke, Richard 87, 89, 90, 95, 96

heads 2–5, 20, 21, 136–39, 141–43, fig. 28, fig. 32

Hercules 51

Hermogenes of Tarsus 104

historia 21–25, 76

Hoby, Thomas 86, 87, 95

Homer 58–59

Horace 49n, 56–57

idea 41–42, 80–82, 94

ingenium 7, 60, 63, 64, 66, 74, 100–01

invention 2–6, 8, 22, 79–81, 91, 92

Isaiah 139, 141, 161

issues 13, 15–16, 17, 22, 43–44, 154

Jacopo di Cione fig. 18

Jerome, St 66, fig. 9

Jones, Inigo 90–92, 96

Jonson, Ben 90–92, 96

Julius II, Pope 102

Juvenal 66

Lancilotti, Francesco 1–6

Landino, Cristoforo 15, 28

landscape 2–5, 15, 23, 52–53, 58–59, 149–50, 164

language 1, 83, 109–15, 123–26

Laocoon group 98–116, fig. 10

Leo X, Pope 103

Leonardo da Vinci 11, 24, 53, 84, 85

Lessing, Gotthold Ephraim 110

liberal arts 9, 15–16, 20, 22, 72–73

light 2–3, 6, 9, 17, 21–22, 75, 89, 128, 139, 145, 148–49, 154–56, 162; and see reflection, refraction, relief, shadow, visual force

Limoges, Peter of 156, 157, fig. 36

lines 9, 14, 17, 18, 20, 56–57, 74–75, 85, 90, 92, 93, 95, 96, 135–37

Lomazzo, Giovanni Paolo 88–90

Longhi, Roberto 52n, 114, 118, 142, 163–64

Lucian 70

Malatesta family (Cesena) 131

maniera 3, 7, 13

manner 2, 4, 7, 10, 22, 52–53, 74

Mantegna, Andrea 7–8, 80–81, fig. 1, fig. 21

Mantua 28, 54n, 80, fig. 1

mathematics 16, 18, 28, 31, 34, 146

matter 10, 20, 72–74, 77, 78–79, 81, 88–89, 139–40

Matthew, St 120–26

mean 6, 28–30, 34–36

medium 64, 73, 77, 112–15, 122–27; and see depiction, language, matter

members 21, 41, 50, 73, 143

memory 9, 31, 69, 111, 135

Minerva 50, 71

Morroni da Rieti. Tommaso 46

movement 2–3, 21, 75, 101

nature 1, 20–22, 36, 42–44, 53, 56–57, 58–59, 61, 62–63, 64–65, 72, 88, 92, 93, 95

Navicella (Giotto) 21, 23, fig. 3

Nicola di Segna fig. 23

Norgate, Edward 94

northern Europe 2–3, 54–57, 69–72, 83–97, 126, 130

nude figure 2–4, 42–44, 48–55

optics 152–56; and see eye, light

order 5–6, 30, 52–55, 73, 77, 114, 149; and see composition, commensuration, disegno, dispositio ordo

ordo 75, 77

Ovid 46–47, 48–49, 64–65

Pandolfini, Agnolo 33–35

parafoveal vision 137, 138, fig. 27

Passover 124

patrons 10, 23, 41, 54, 69, 78–82

Peacham, Henry 96, 97

Pecham, John 152–56, fig. 35

peripheral vision 137, 138, 155, fig. 27

perspective 2–4, 6–8, 12, 18–20, 119, 146–49, 150, fig. 2

Peter of Limoges 156, 157, fig. 36

Petrarch 13, 70

Petronius 116

Phidias 50

pictorial medium 117, 119, 122, 123, 125–28, 138–41, 144–47, 150, 152, 155, 158–60; and see depiction

picture plane 21, 119, 141, 142, 144, 148–52, 158, fig. 33

Piero della Francesca 9, 12, 117–63, fig. 11, fig. 12, fig. 13, fig. 14, fig. 15, fig. 16, fig. 17, fig. 25, fig. 30, fig. 32

Pisanello 41, 44, 50–54nn, fig. 5, fig. 6, fig. 7

Pius II, Pope 45

places of invention 8–13

Plato 37, 81, 82

Plautus 62

Plieningen, Dietrich von 69, 70

Pliny the Elder 11, 13–15, 25–26, 46–49, 52–53nn, 55n, 59n, 62–63, 64–65, 102, 103, 105

Pliny the Younger 40, 44, 60–61, 64–65

poetry 23, 46–49, 52–53, 58–67, 98–116

Polydorus 102

portrait 14, 38, 50–53, 58, 63, 66, 69, fig. 1, fig. 4, fig. 7

Praxiteles 50, 62

Priscian 104

‘proper form’ 12, 146, fig. 32

proportion 18, 21, 28–31, 32–34, 36, 75, 93

Protogenes 11, 13–15, 20, 22, 26

Quintilian 16, 39, 60

reflection of light 2–3, 6, 17, 21–22

refraction of light 153–55

relief 2–3, 6, 8, 17, 22, 51, 75, 85, 90, 125

Ringhieri, Innocentio 15–16, 26

Rogier van der Weyden 55n, fig. 8

Rome 13, 23, 28, 31, 41, 44, 46–47, 50–51, 88, 98–103

Sabadino degli Arienti, Giovanni 102n, 105n

Sadoleto, Jacopo 98–116

Sansepolcro 131–34, 147, 160–61, fig. 11, fig. 23

Santi, Giovanni 7, 12, 24

scale 18, 60–65, 123, 142–43

scanning 109–13, 127–29, 135, 143, 155

sculpture 44, 50–51, 58–61, 73, 78, 81, 98–103, 110

Servius 46–49, 107n

shadow 2–3, 6, 17, 75–77, 90, 142, 148–49

Sidney, Sir Philip 87

Siena 130–33, 140, 163, fig. 20, fig. 23

Socrates 35–36

spatial frequency 142

species/genus 9, 17, 21, 125

spiritual eye 156–57

Strozzi, Tito Vespasiano 40, 48, 66–67, 71

Suetonius 66

surface 9, 17–21, 117–19, 136, 142, 158–59

symbolism 125–27, 140, 141, 150

symmetry 75, 88

talent 2–5, 7–9, 69, 74, 101

tapestry 54–55, fig. 8

Terence 60–61

terms 1–8, 9–11, 16–22, 72–77, 83–85

theological exposition 123–25, 139–41, 144–46

topics 8–13

Trajan 55, fig. 8

transitus 124, 127, 145, 161

Trivulzio, Cesare 110

typology 124

Ugolino di Nerio fig. 20

Valla, Lorenzo 8, 11, 69

variety 4–6, 21, 30, 43, 74–77

Vasari, Giorgio 6, 15, 24, 94, 162

Venice 46–47, 51n

Venus 50–53

viewpoint 18, 147–48, fig. 33, fig, 34

Virgil 46–49, 58–59, 60–61, 104–07, 113–16

vision 9, 11, 12, 17–18, 72, 109, 112–13, 117, 128–30, 136–38, 142–43, 150–51, 152–56, fig. 27, fig. 33, fig. 34, fig. 35, fig. 36

visual force 152, 153

visual pyramid 9, 17, 18, 20

visual rays 17

Vitruvius 53n, 55, 93

Winepress, Christ in the 139, 141

words, see description, language, terms

Wotton, Henry 93, 96

Zeuxis 14, 15, 22, 26, 81 halftitle

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