Leonardo da Vinci and Cortona- Kress Italian Art Society

Francesca Fiorani is a professor of art history at the University of Virginia. An expert on Renaissance art and the application of computer technology to the humanities, she designed the digital platform Leonardo da Vinci and His Treatise on Painting. She is the author of The Marvel of Maps: Art, Cartography, and Politics in Renaissance Italy (Yale UP, 2005) and The Shadow Drawing:
How Science Taught Leonardo How to Paint (New York, 2020; paperback May 2022).