Matthew Landrus

Matthew Landrus is a Research Fellow and Supernumerary Fellow at the History of Art Department, Faculty of History, University of Oxford. His work focuses on the intersections of practical arts, natural philosophy, and technological innovation from the fourteenth to eighteenth centuries, with a specialization in Leonardo da Vinci and the intellectual practices of artist-engineers.

His research spans

• historiography of artisan notebooks and art academies
• paradoxes in early modern visual culture
• proportion theories in aesthetics
• Anglo-Saxon manuscript traditions
• colonial cultural representations
• reconstruction of lost scientific treatises

Recent publications include studies on Leonardo da Vinci's mechanical engineering treatises and human proportion theories, reflecting his interest in the synthesis of artistic practice and scientific exploration during the Renaissance. His projects integrate textual analysis, material culture studies, and historical reconstruction methodologies.