Watermarks: Leonardo da Vinci and the Mastery of Nature

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Leonardo's enduring fascination with water-from its artistic representation to aquatic inventions and hydraulic engineering Formless, mutable, transparent: the element of water posed major challenges for the visual artists of the Renaissance. To the engineers of the era, water represented a force that could be harnessed for human industry but wa

Leslie A. Geddes is assistant professor of art history at Tulane University.

"A Choice Outstanding Academic Title in Fine Arts" "One cannot help admiring how, through her own fertile processes of thought and analogy, Geddes mirrors the astonishing liveliness of Leonardo's creative imagination."---Francis Ames-Lewis, Burlington Magazine "Compelling. . . . an exciting addition to the new field of the environmental humanities." * Choice * "A timely invitation to a close reading of Leonardo's drawings, not as a purely artistic medium but also as a versatile means of engaging with nature."---Anatole Tchikine, Renaissance Quarterly