Empathy and the art of Leonardo da Vinci
Samira Schultz Mansur, Javier DeFelipe · 2024
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Samira Schultz Mansur and Javier DeFelipe explore the idea of empathy through the art of Leonardo da Vinci, in a paper whose text dates it to 2023. Empathy, they note, entered art talk through a German word for feeling into a work: the viewer projects himself into the object and feels its qualities from inside. Leonardo, who fused art with anatomy and nature study, is a natural focus for that lens.
The authors trace how German thinkers and the Romantics admired Leonardo's universal mind, which shunned stiff rules and built knowledge from close watching of the world. His figures carry emotion through studied bodies, inviting the viewer's own feelings to answer. The essay is a work of art history and neuroscience reflection rather than experiment, and it treats Leonardo's paintings as early studies of shared feeling.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Samira Schultz Mansur, Javier DeFelipe |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2024 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 61 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |