About

Carlo Pedretti (1928-2018) served as Professor of Art History and Armand Hammer Chair in Leonardo Studies at UCLA from 1960 to 1993. He was widely considered the leading authority on Leonardo da Vinci and was a highly sought after expert consultant in cases of disputed attributions. He authored more than 50 books and 700 essays and articles in various languages, including Leonardo da Vinci (Taj Books, 2005).

Research topics

• Art
• Humanities
• Art history
• Visual arts
• Computer science

Selected publications

• [Leonardo] Industrial Design

  Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II · 2025-12-27

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  Pedretti, Carlo, “Industrial Design”. In Leonardo architetto, Milano: Electa, 1978, pp. 326-342. Articolo nuovamente pubblicato per gentile concessione della Nuova Fondazione Rossana e Carlo Pedretti.

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• Leonardo en la Biblioteca Nacional de España. Las notas sobre pintura de Leonardo en los manuscritos inéditos de Madrid

  Dialnet (Universidad de la Rioja) · 2018-01-01

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• Leonardo da Vinci e la Battaglia di Anghiari

  2017-01-01

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• Leonardo a Donnaregina

  2017-01-01

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• Préface

  Presses universitaires François-Rabelais eBooks · 2014-01-01

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  Le soulèvement et le déplacement d’éléments constructifs, surtout de grande dimension, représentent des opérations qui ont toujours suscité l’admiration, et l’histoire des grues, des treuils et des dispositifs mécaniques en général est longue et riche de moments d’une importance fondamentale. Telle est l’origine du choix courageux, mais clairement prometteur, d’Andrea Bernardoni et Alexander Neuwahl consistant à parcourir à nouveaux frais les étapes fondamentales de ce parcours

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• Leonardo da Vinci : il Codice Corazza nella Biblioteca nazionale di Napoli con la riproduzione in facsimile del MS XII.D.79

  Medical Entomology and Zoology · 2011-01-01 · 1 citations

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• Leonard de Vinci & la France : Château du Clos Lucé, Amboise, Parc Leonardo da Vinci

  Medical Entomology and Zoology · 2009-01-01

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• Leonardo da Vinci : l' "Angelo incarnato" & Salai

  Medical Entomology and Zoology · 2009-01-01

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  Leonardo's Angel in the Flesh went on display for the first time in the great exhibition on Leonardo's Bridges organised by Sweden in order to celebrate its entrance into the European Community in 1993 and 1994. It received much attention by the media, making numerous newspaper headlines. And since it was all too easy to recognize the appearance of the demoniacal Salai - the handsome boy, object of Leonardo's presumed homosexual attentions - in this singular blasphemous image in the nude, the Swedish exhibition was to include another novelty, the counterpart of the same character in the painting of a Dressed-up Salai in the Alos Foundation.

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• Leonardo : from Tuscany to the Loire

  Medical Entomology and Zoology · 2008-01-01 · 1 citations

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  This volume collects a series of complex and variously articulated themes that involve on a theoretical and historical basis both the world of architecture and that of urban planning, as well as that of sculpture and of painting. The period here analysed is certainly the most operational for Leonardo, during his frequent movements in the large and complex political, economic, cultural and artistic theatre that was central Italy between 1500 and 1516. It is in this historical and geographical context that the focal points of the research of Starnazzi emerge with spontaneous emphasis: Florence, Cortona-Arezzo, Rome and Amboise where the artist spends the last years of his life, from 1517 to 1519.

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• Dall'ombra all'oggetto come percorso filosofico in Leonardo

  2008-01-01

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Frequent coauthors

• da Vinci Leonardo

  42 shared

• Kenneth Clark

  Bank of England

  7 shared

• Windsor Castle. Royal Library

  6 shared

• Alessandro Vezzosi

  5 shared

• Carlo Starnazzi

  5 shared

• Margherita Melani

  5 shared

• Kenneth D. Keele

  4 shared

• Biblioteca leonardiana

  3 shared