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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.

The Last Leonardo: The Secret Lives of the World’s Most Expensive Painting
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 392

The Last Leonardo: The Secret Lives of the World’s Most Expensive Painting

In 2017 the Salvator Mundi was sold at auction for $450m. But is it a real da Vinci? In a thrilling narrative built on formidable research, Ben Lewis tracks the extraordinary journey of a masterpiece lost and found, lied and fought over across the centuries.

Leonardo
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 180

Leonardo

  • Categories: Art
  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2011-10-06
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  • Publisher: OUP Oxford

This fascinating exploration of Leonardo da Vinci's life and work identifies what it was that made him so unique, and explains the phenomenon of the world's most celebrated artistic genius who, 500 years on, still grips and inspires us. Martin Kemp offers us exceptional insights into what it was that made this Renaissance man so special, and the 'real' meaning behind such masterpieces as the Mona Lisa and the Last Supper. Tracing Leonardo's career in all its variety, we learn of his unfulfilled dreams, relationships with powerful patrons, and the truth about his views on God, humans, and nature. The famous notebooks are the key to understanding the secret of Leonardo's success and genius, as...

Leonardo's Writings and Theory of Art
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 488

Leonardo's Writings and Theory of Art

  • Categories: Art

Also available as the fourth book in a 5 volume set (ISBN#0815329334)

Leonardo Da Vinci and the Book of Doom
  • Language: en

Leonardo Da Vinci and the Book of Doom

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2019
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  • Publisher: Unicorn

This in-depth investigation into the art, politics and murderous cynicism of Renaissance Milan is is an academic detective story sketched out with erudition and journalistic panache. Debunking the outrageous claim by the notorious Lancashire forger Shaun Greenhalgh that he produced the mesmerizing portrait of a young girl that zoomed into the art world limelight in 2009, Hewitt proves that Leonardo was on intimate terms with both the sitter - Bianca Sforza, teenage daughter of the Duke of Milan - and her husband, Galeazzo Sanseverino, the Duke's Army Captain, effective Number Two and, as Hewitt convincingly demonstrates, the subject of Leonardo's enigmatic portrait The Musician. Hewitt bring...

Leonardo
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 313

Leonardo

  • Categories: Art

Cutting through the veil of legend, Martin Kemp offers an unparalleled portrait of this extraordinary man, asking what made Leonardo's work so astonishing and what vision drove his art and his invention. This updated edition is the first book to include two newly discovered Leonardo works, the most important discoveries in over a hundred years.

Inventing Leonardo
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 288

Inventing Leonardo

  • Categories: Art

As he examines the changing views of Leonardo since the sixteenth century, A. Richard Turner both gives the reader a cultural history in brief of western Europe during this period and provides a context for examining Leonardo's relevance to our own ways of perceiving and interpreting the world.

Leonardo Da Vinci
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 170

Leonardo Da Vinci

This remarkable manuscript is almost 500 years old and was hand-written in Italian by Leonardo da Vinci in his characteristic "mirror writing" and supported by copious sketches. It covers a wide range of his observations and theories on astronomy, the properties of water, rocks, fossils, air, and celestial light. The Codex Leicester provides a rare insight into the inquiring mind of the definitive Renaissance artist, scientist, and thinker as well as an exceptional illustration of the link between art and science and the creativity of the scientific process. Each delicate page is faithfully reproduced and accompanied by an insightful interpretation of the original Italian texts by the foremost Leonardo scholar, Professor Carlo Pedretti. There is also an introductory essay by Michael Desmond.

The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 739

The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1971
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  • Publisher: Lulu.com

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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.