La perspectiva en la episteme artístico-científica de Leonardo Da Vinci

Abstract

The essay develops the conjecture according to which the use of the idea of “perspective” in the work of Leonardo Da Vinci is one of the epistemes by which we can still consider our modernity. In the scientific and artistic device of Leonardo Da Vinci's work, the use of perspective is key, for his work as well as for the approach to knowledge, research and art of his time. Precisely because the Renaissance inaugurated not only the horizon of modern empirical science but also its appropriation of the cultural legacy from an anthropocentric and humanist perspective, perhaps this is why modernity still maintains full force in our time, especially due to the validity of the perspective in contemporary art of the image.