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Leonardo Da Vinci And Gian Giacomo Caprotti Called
An exceptional discovery on the relations between the great master and his favorite assistant. "Salai" is the name that Leonardo da Vinci liked to use, as is documented in his writings from 1494 onward, for the boy whom he had taken into his home four years earlier, when he was just ten years old, and who lived with him for almost a quarter of a century: first as a shop boy and then as his assistant and model, as well as becoming, according to what the sources tell us, his pupil and companion in life. In reality we know very little about him, except for this work which is being presented to the general public for the first time today. The only one in which his name is indicated with precision. A document that could therefore throw some light on a figure still shrouded in mystery and add an important element to the history of art. The author of the volume, Maurizio Zecchini, offers a moving and gripping historical account, as well as presenting, with the assistance of a team of experts, the results of the numerous analyses carried out during the restoration of the work.
Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino in Art Collections and in the History of Collecting
Raphael’s artworks, paintings, altarpieces, drawings, tapestries, cartoons, prints, ceramics and all other artifacts derived from his works, including copies and forgeries, have been the object of an often-frantic search from his death in 1520 onwards. France, Spain, Germany, England, and Italy were the main destinations for such artworks between the 16th and the 18th centuries, while the market spread overseas from the 19th century onwards. This book is the first full exploration of this phenomenon and of the mechanisms of transmission of Raphael’s artifax through inheritance, sales, swaps and shady transactions. It includes essays in English, French and Italian by some of the most knowledgeable scholars on Raphael, museum curators and experts in the history of collecting, and is a landmark in scholarship on Raphael and art collecting.
Virtus und Voluptas
Der Autor untersucht zwei Bildtypen, die, lokal im Wesentlichen auf Venedig begrenzt, etwa zeitgleich in den Jahren zwischen 1500 und 1530 auftreten: der ganzfigurige, meist liegende Frauenakt sowie das halbfigurige erotische Frauenbildnis. Bei den abgebildeten Frauen handelt es sich, so die These, abgesehen von einer gelegentlichen Einkleidung als Venus oder Flora, nicht um naturgetreue Porträts venezianischer Patrizierinnen oder Kurtisanen. Vielmehr sind die Gemälde aus Anlass von Hochzeiten entstanden und thematisieren die Rolle einer Frau des 16. Jahrhunderts im Kontext der Ehe: In der Öffentlichkeit hat sie als treue, tugendhafte Gattin den Aspekt der virtus zu repräsentieren, in de...
Leonardo's Salvator Mundi and the Collecting of Leonardo in the Stuart Courts
A study of Leonardo da Vinci's Salvator Mundi, the world's most expensive painting; this volume recounts the story of the painting's modern-day discovery and restoration, but also delves into the collecting of Leonardo's works at the courts of Charles I and Charles II--éd.
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I, Mona Lisa
FROM THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLING AUTHOR 'A beautifully written, literary tour-de-force' John Ironmonger, author of Not Forgetting the Whale 'A wonderfully written story of art, but also of obsession, friendship and love - I absolutely adored this novel' Jillian Cantor The Mona Lisa has hung in the Louvre for over two-hundred years. She has watched alone in silence as millions of people have admired her behind the glass. Now, she is finally ready to tell her own story. Over five centuries, from da Vinci's bustling Florentine studio to the opulent French court, Mona will be desired, stolen, heartbroken, curious, furious, and above all, she will be heard. 'Solomons' prose is lyrical and her detail immense. No longer can I look at the Mona Lisa without hearing her. But more, now I know her' PRESS ASSOCIATION
