Abstract This article sheds new light on Andrea del Verrocchio’s Measured Drawing of a Horse Facing Left (recto), c.1480–88 (Metropolitan Museum of Art, 19.76.5), by scrutinizing the artist’s unique approach to the representation of measurement. It takes as its focus the complex apparatus of annotations traversing the horse, which painstakingly translates the proportions of the equine body into words. A close reading of these “written vectors” fundamentally transforms our understanding of the function of text in a measured drawing. For Verrocchio, writing is not merely a descriptive tool but rather a powerful vehicle for the construction of a spatialized body within the boundaries of the pictorial field. His experimentation with the graphic potential of the written word challenges the traditional tension between pictura and scriptura and speaks to a broader shift in how drawn images were constructed and conceptualized during the Renaissance.

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写身体：安德烈亚·德尔·弗罗基基奥（Andrea del Verrocchio）的马尺

摘要本文通过审查艺术家独特的测量表示方法，阐明了安德里亚·德尔·弗罗基乔（Andrea del Verrocchio）的《向左测量的马的坐姿素描》（约1480-88年，大都会艺术博物馆，19.76.5）。它以穿越马的注释的复杂设备为重点，该注释将马体的比例精心翻译成单词。对这些“书面矢量”的仔细阅读从根本上改变了我们对测量图纸中文本功能的理解。对于Verrocchio来说，写作不仅是一种描述性工具，而且是在摄影界范围内构建空间化物体的强大工具。