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Time and Narrative

Notes

1. Guillaume Durand [William Durandus], The Rationale divinorum officiorum of William Durand of Mende: A New Translation of the Prologue and Book One, trans. Timothy M. Thibodeau (New York: Columbia University Press, 2007), 34.

2. Bonaventura, Meditations on the Life of Christ; An Illustrated Manuscript of the Fourteenth Century, trans. Isa Ragusa and Rosalie B. Green (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1961), 330.

3. Anonymous, Zardino de Oration, quoted in Michael Baxandall, Painting and Experience in Fifteenth-century Italy: A Primer in the Social History of Pictorial Style (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1972), 46.

4. Leon Battista Alberti, On Painting, trans. and intro. John R. Spencer (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1956; rev. ed. 1966), 77.

5. Leonardo da Vinci, The Literary Works of Leonardo da Vinci, trans. and comp. Jean Paul Richter, 2 vols. (3rd ed., London: Phaidon, 1970), 1: 338.

6. San Antonio, Summa Theologica, III, viii, quoted in Creighton E. Gilbert, “The Archbishop on the Painters of Florence, 1450,” Art Bulletin 41 (1959): 76–7.

7. Leonardo da Vinci, The Literary Works of Leonardo da Vinci, 1: 56, no. 23.

8. Leonardo da Vinci, The Literary Works of Leonardo da Vinci, 1: 61, no. 27.

9. Lorenzo Ghiberti, Commentarii, iii, quoted in Lew Andrews, Story and Space in Renaissance Art: The Rebirth of Continuous Narrative (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1995), 54.

10. Lew Andrews, Story and Space in Renaissance Art, 77.