In May 2011 the Dutch University Institute for Art History in Florence hosted the international conference From Pattern to Nature in Italian Renaissance Drawing: Pisanello to Leonardo. The conference was co-organized by the Institute’s director, Michael W. Kwakkelstein, who is also an ISI lecturer. Ten international specialists delivered talks on when, where, and to what extent new theoretical ideals on imitation were first consistently put into practice. They also asked how this affected both drawing techniques, methods, and styles, as well as the rendering of Nature. These talks have now been published under the auspices of the Dutch University Institute for Art History (Michael W. Kwakkelstein & Lorenza Melli eds. Publisher: Centro Di, Florence).
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