Daniele Barbaro and the University of Padova

FRONT MATTER.- Xavier Salomon, Foreword.- Cosimo Monteleone and Kim Williams, Note of Editors.- CONTENTS.- Cosimo Monteleone, Daniele Barbaro and the 'Philosophy' of Perspective.- Kim Williams, Daniele Barbaro and the Science of Mathematics.- Filippo Camerota, Daniele Barbaro and Mathematical Instruments.- Stefano Zaggia, Daniele Barbaro and the Foundation of the Botanical Garden at the University of Padova.- Cristiano Guarnieri, Daniele Barbaro's Investigations on Timekeeping and the Villa in Maser.- Vera Viana, Daniele Barbaro's Non Uniform Polyhedra.- Agostino De Rosa, Perspettiva ridotta a perfezione: glimpses on Daniele Barbaro's perspective theory.- Ekaterina Igoshina, Ilya Anikyev, Anna Markova, Marginal Notes by Daniele Barbaro in the 1511 Edition of Vitruvius from the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts Collection: Attribution Process and Dating Method.- Branko Mitrovic, Paduan Aristotelianism and Daniele Barbaro's Commentary on Vitruvius.

 

Cosimo Monteleone is Associate Professor of Descriptive Geometry and Architectural Representation at the Università degli Studi di Padova. In 2003 he obtained his degree in Architecture at the University IUAV of Venice, where he also earned his Ph.D. in 2010 in "Architectural Composition curriculum in Survey and Representation of Architecture and Landscape" with a thesis on the Guggenheim Museum by Frank Lloyd Wright. His research focuses on architectural, urban and landscape survey; 3D modelling of architecture and urbanism; augmented and virtual reality; gnomonics; science and technique applied to art and architecture; history of representation, with a particular focus on Renaissance perspective. He is member of "Visualizing Cities", an international research project devoted to the analysis and the representation of the historical, urban and architectural transformations. He is member of the National Technical UNI - UNI / CT 047 / GL 03 (Technical drawing for building and installations). On the topics of his research he has published several essays, presented at conferences, given lectures, and directed digital installations for national and international exhibitions. Among his publications is Frank Lloyd Wright. Geometria e Astrazione nel Guggenheim Museum (Rome: Aracne 2013). He is a member of the Editorial Board of the Nexus Network Journal, in which he has published two papers : "Perspective at Palladio's Time and Its Scientific Heritage" (with Andrea Giordano) and "The Perspective of Daniele Barbaro" (2019). His latest books are La prospettiva di Daniele Barbaro. Note critiche e trascrizione del manoscritto It. IV, 39=5446 (Aracne, 2020) and Daniele Barbaro's Perspective of 1568 (Springer, 2021).




Kim Williams is a writer and editor living and working in Italy. She received her degree in Architectural Studies from the University of Texas in Austin, and is licensed as an architect in New York State. Her apprenticeship was done in the