by Jon Lackman | 15 February 2006 | Books, Renaissance
In the January-March 2006 Word & Image, Louisa Waldman belatedly reviews Michel Jeanneret’s “groundbreaking, learned, and eminently readable” 1997 Perpetuum mobile, published in English in 2001 as Perpetual Motion: Transforming Shapes in the Renaissance from da Vinci to Montaigne, which “sets out to revise the idea … of the sixteenth century as an age dominated by a frozen classical perfection, and to explore the period’s fascination with the fluid, the polymorphic, the open-ended, the unfinished and the unfinishable.”
