PICTURING MACHINES 1400–1700 PICTURING MACHINES 1400–1700
The engineers and architects of the Renaissance are renowned not only for the universality of their genius and the audacity of their creations but also for their drawings. Leonardo da Vinci’s famous drawings of technical devices, although unparalleled in many respects, are just one instance of a practice of drawing in the realm of early modern engineering that came into being at the end of the Middle Ages and eventually addressed a broad audience through the Theatres of Machines in the last third of the sixteenth century. The new types and methods of graphic representation developed and used by Renaissance engineers have long attracted the attention of historians of art, architecture, science, and technology. Apart from their often fascinating aesthetic qualities, these drawings have been particularly appreciated as historical documents that testify to the development of technology, the spread of perspective, the psychological roots of technological creativity, and the beginnings of modern scientific attitudes.
PICTURING MACHINES 1400–1700
The engineers and architects of the Renaissance are renowned not only for the universality of their genius and the audacity of their creations but also for their drawings. Leonardo da Vinci’s famous drawings of technical devices, although unparalleled in many respects, are just one instance of a practice of drawing in the realm of early modern engineering that came into being at the end of the Middle Ages and eventually addressed a broad audience through the Theatres of Machines in the last third of the sixteenth century. The new types and methods of graphic representation developed and used by Renaissance engineers have long attracted the attention of historians of art, architecture, science, and technology. Apart from their often fascinating aesthetic qualities, these drawings have been particularly appreciated as historical documents that testify to the development of technology, the spread of perspective, the psychological roots of technological creativity, and the beginnings of modern scientific attitudes.
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