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The Complete Paintings of Leonardo Da Vinci
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 128

The Complete Paintings of Leonardo Da Vinci

  • Categories: Art
  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1969
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Leonardo Da Vinci
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 664

Leonardo Da Vinci

  • Categories: Art

In this new, intimate biography, award-winning author Nicholl creates a portrait of the artist for our time--a biography that brings Leonardo to life as a complex man living in a fascinating, dangerous, quickly changing world.

Leonardo Da Vinci
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 624

Leonardo Da Vinci

The #1 New York Times bestseller "A powerful story of an exhilarating mind and life...a study in creativity: how to define it, how to achieve it." --The New Yorker "Vigorous, insightful." --The Washington Post "A masterpiece." --San Francisco Chronicle "Luminous." --The Daily Beast He was history's most creative genius. What secrets can he teach us? The author of the acclaimed bestsellers Steve Jobs, Einstein, and Benjamin Franklin brings Leonardo da Vinci to life in this exciting new biography. Based on thousands of pages from Leonardo's astonishing notebooks and new discoveries about his life and work, Walter Isaacson weaves a narrative that connects his art to his science. He shows how Le...

Leonardo Da Vinci
  • Language: en

Leonardo Da Vinci

Examines the drawings and thoughts of Renaissance painter and inventor Leonardo da Vinci about the sky and earth, water, the human body, flying, the automobile, lifting and pushing, painting and sculpting, and war.

Leonardo da Vinci
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 429

Leonardo da Vinci

  • Categories: Art
  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2007-10-18
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  • Publisher: OUP Oxford

This masterly account of Leonardo da Vinci and his vision of the world is now widely recognized as the classic treatment of Leonardo's art, science, and thought, giving an unparalleled insight into the broadening and deepening of Leonardo's intellect and vision throughout his artistic career. Martin Kemp, one of the world's leading authorities on Leonardo, takes us on a journey through the whole span of the great man's career. From his early training in Florence, through masterpieces such as The Last Supper and the Mona Lisa, to the work of Leonardo's last years, this book gives a fully integrated picture of his artistic, scientific, and technological achievements. Generously illustrated, and now including a new introductory chapter setting Leonardo's work in its historical context, this fully updated new edition provides an unparalleled insight into the marvellous works of this central figure in western art.

Leonardo Da Vinci
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 286

Leonardo Da Vinci

  • Categories: Art

Clark's study of Leonardo is generally considered the clearest introduction available to the work of the controversial genius. This edition contains 128 plates, integrated into the text; a revised list of dates; an updated bibliography; and a new introduction.

Leonardo Da Vinci
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 276

Leonardo Da Vinci

Clark's study of Leonardo is generally considered the clearest introduction available to the work of the controversial genius. This edition contains 128 plates, integrated into the text; a revised list of dates; an updated bibliography; and a new introduction.

Leonardo Da Vinci
  • Language: en

Leonardo Da Vinci

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1997
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  • Publisher: Hatje Cantz

A book about the life of leonardo da vinci's life work

This is Not Leonardo Da Vinci
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 394

This is Not Leonardo Da Vinci

  • Categories: Art
  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2021-01-04
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  • Publisher: Unknown

Despite so much being written about Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance, many questions about the Tuscan artist's life and works remain shrouded in mystery: Why isn't the painting exhibited at the Louvre Museum the Mona Lisa? Why do we find so many pagan symbols in Leonardo's Christian representations? Was Leonardo really the son of a notary and a slave? Why is there such a lack of work from Leonardo's early life-perhaps his most important period? Why do we have paintings of the Americas well before the first trips of Christopher Columbus? Riccardo Magnani, economist-turned-Leonardo expert, reconstructs the political and economic world around da Vinci, illustrating how he was influenced by...

The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci (Complete)
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 1118

The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci (Complete)

A singular fatality has ruled the destiny of nearly all the most famous of Leonardo da Vinci's works. Two of the three most important were never completed, obstacles having arisen during his life-time, which obliged him to leave them unfinished; namely the Sforza Monument and the Wall-painting of the Battle of Anghiari, while the third—the picture of the Last Supper at Milan—has suffered irremediable injury from decay and the repeated restorations to which it was recklessly subjected during the XVIIth and XVIIIth centuries. Nevertheless, no other picture of the Renaissance has become so wellknown and popular through copies of every description. Vasari says, and rightly, in his Life of Le...