Download or read book Leonardo Da Vinci and His Works written by Mrs. Charles Heaton and published by . This book was released on 1874 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book An Overview of Leonardo s Career and Projects Until C 1500 written by Claire J. Farago and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 1999 with total page 526 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Also available as the second book in a five volume set (ISBN#0815329334)
Download or read book Leonardo Da Vinci An overview of Leonardo s career and projects until c 1500 written by Claire J. Farago and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Leonardo Da Vinci Selected Scholarship Leonardo s projects c 1500 1519 written by Claire J. Farago and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 1999 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Also available as the third book in a five volume set (ISBN#0815329334)
Download or read book Leonardo Da Vinci written by Matthew Landrus and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 63 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Born in the small Tuscan town of Vinci in 1452, Leonardo da Vinci is one of the world's best-known artists, he has certainly had more influence on art and science than any other artist. This book looks at the major events in Leonardo's life: from his early childhood to his apprenticeship with Verrocchio and then the setting up of his own workshop in Florence, before leaving for Milan where his patron was Ludovico Sforza ("Il Moro"- the Moor). Packed with information about Leonardo's style of painting and drawing, as well as his work as a civil and military engineer, the book combines chapters on Leonardo's life with themed chapters that look at his inventions and key works, including such well-known paintings as the Mona Lisa and the Last Supper. We also learn about his travels back to Florence and to Rome. This is a truly fascinating look at an amazing talent; a man who was ahead of his time in many ways and in many aspects of art and science. With instructive box features offering further information about key people and subjects in Leonardo's life, and helpful timelines for added reference, plus 15 beautifully produced removable facsimile documents that give unprecedented insight into Leonardo's life and work, this is a unique and authoritative guide to the world's most intriguing artist.
Download or read book Lives of Leonardo written by Bandello VASARI and published by Pallas Athene. This book was released on 2019-11 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For many people the greatest artist, and the quintessential Renaissance man, Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) was a painter, architect, theatre designer, engineer, sculptor, anatomist, geometer, naturalist, poet and musician. His Last Supper in Milan has been called the greatest painting in Western art. Illegitimate, left-handed and homosexual, Leonardo never made a straightforward career. But from his earliest apprenticeship with the Florentine painter and sculptor Andrea Verrochio, his astonishing gifts were recognised. His life led him from Florence to militaristic Milan and back, to Rome and eventually to France, where he died in the arms of the King, Francis I. As one of the greatest exponents of painting of his time, Leonardo was celebrated by his fellow Florentine Vasari (who was nevertheless responsible for covering over the great fresco of the Battle of Anghiari with his own painting). Vasari's carefully researched life of Leonardo remains one of the main sources of our knowledge, and is printed here together with the three other early biographies, and the major account by his French editor Du Fresne. Personal reminiscences by the novelist Bandello, and humanist Saba di Castiglione, round out the picture, and for the first time the extremely revealing imagined dialogue between Leonardo and the Greek sculptor Phidias, by the painter and theorist Lomazzo, is published in English. An introduction by the scholar Charles Robertson places these writings and the career of Leonardo in context. Approximately 50 pages of colour illustrations, including the major paintings and many of the astonishing drawings, give a rich overview of Leonardo's work and mind.
Download or read book Leonardo Da Vinci Biography Art Work and Inventions written by Tom Brown and published by . This book was released on 2017-01-28 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Leonardo da Vinci was a painter, sculptor, architect, musician, scientist, mathematician, engineer, inventor, anatomist, geologist, cartographer, botanist and writer. Leonardo has often been described as the archetype of the Renaissance man, a man whose unquenchable curiosity was equaled only by his powers of invention. Coming from an illegitimate birth, he went through every obstacle life can present to him and became a great man.Witness his magnificent life story from the workshops of Florence to the narrow streets of Milan until you reach the mighty castles of France!Read what Leonardo did with his life until Leonardo gave his last breath in the arms of a French king. In this book you are going to find:* Leonardo's biography* Leonardo's friends, family, enemies and his relationships with them* Great persons in the history whom Leonardo befriended* Paintings and detailed explanations* Inventions and detailed explanations with pictures* Secrets, theories and surprises.You are also going to learn:-----Who was Salai? -----How did Leonardo painted The Last Supper on the huge walls of a church?-----Why did Leonardo leave the Florence and moved to Milan?-----What was his greatest accomplishment?-----What was his greatest failure?-----Why did he take no wife?-----What was the secret behind his famous ambition about flying?-----Who is the real Mona Lisa? (Not what you think!!)-----What are the secrets messages hidden in The Last Supper?Read now, and * learn great things about the history of art from renaissance* learn how can you describe and analyze paintings* learn how great Leonardo's master was* learn Leonardo's view about his sexuality.Knowledge, is power.
Download or read book Leonardo Da Vinci 123 Success Facts Everything You Need to Know about Leonardo Da Vinci written by Norma Barnett and published by Emereo Publishing. This book was released on 2014-05-14 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Not just another Leonardo da Vinci title. 'Leonardo Di Ser Piero Da Vinci' (; April 15, 1452- May 2, 1519, Old Style) was an Italian Renaissance polymath: artist, sculptor, designer, performer, mathematician, architect, creator, anatomist, specialist in geology, cartographer, botanist, and author. His mastermind, maybe further compared to that of whatever different figure, epitomized the Renaissance humanist standard. This book is your ultimate resource for Leonardo da Vinci. Here you will find the most up-to-date 123 Success Facts, Information, and much more. In easy to read chapters, with extensive references and links to get you to know all there is to know about Leonardo da Vinci's Early life, Career and Personal life right away. A quick look inside: Science and inventions of Leonardo da Vinci - Leonardo's notes and journals, Leonardo da Vinci - Assistants and pupils, Science and inventions of Leonardo da Vinci - Approach to scientific investigation, Cultural references to Leonardo da Vinci - Presentation of existing works, The Virgin and Child with St. Anne (Leonardo da Vinci) - History, Leonardo da Vinci - Paintings of the 1480s, Science and inventions of Leonardo da Vinci - Practical inventions and projects, Cultural references to Leonardo da Vinci - Advertising, The Virgin and Child with St. Anne (Leonardo da Vinci) - Content and composition, Leonardo da Vinci's personal life - Weapons and war, Science and inventions of Leonardo da Vinci - Television programs, Cultural references to Leonardo da Vinci - The Da Vinci Code, Leonardo da Vinci - Early works, List of things named after Leonardo da Vinci - Other, Leonardo da Vinci's personal life - Character, Leonardo da Vinci - Verrocchio's workshop, 1466-76, Leonardo da Vinci - Fame and reputation, Leonardo da Vinci's personal life - Reconstructed fingerprint, Cultural references to Leonardo da Vinci - Statues, Science and inventions of Leonardo da Vinci - Musical Instrument, and much more...
Download or read book Leonardo Da Vinci Rediscovered The maturing of a genius 1485 1506 written by Carmen Bambach and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 479 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A modern rethinking of the career and vision of one of the greatest artists of all time on the 500th anniversary of his death The towering genius of Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) has been celebrated--and remained undisputed--for hundreds of years. A groundbreaking, essential addition to scholarship, Leonardo da Vinci Rediscovered continues this legacy while simultaneously reexamining the multifaceted artist's life and work from the ground up. This authoritative, four-volume study marks the 500th anniversary of the great master's death with a sweeping, up-to-date portrait of Leonardo as he has never been seen before. Internationally renowned Leonardo specialist Carmen C. Bambach unfurls new narratives, largely based on the most important, yet most misunderstood, body of evidence available: the artist's drawings, paintings, and manuscripts. In the manner of a biographer, Bambach combs through contemporary documents and more than 4,000 surviving sheets of Leonardo's notes and drawings to extract details about his development as an artist and thinker that have never before been suggested. Some 1,500 illustrations portray the staggering, spectacular legacy that Leonardo left behind on paper and canvas. Through Bambach's comprehensive research, Leonardo emerges as a figure who both embodies his era and completely transcends it, enduring as one of history's greatest artists, scientists, and inventors."--from publisher.
Download or read book 1478 a Year in Leonardo Da Vinci s Career written by Edoardo Villata and published by . This book was released on 2022-04 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 1478 was the year in which Leonardo da Vinci, aged 26, obtained his first official commission and witnessed the Pazzi Conspiracy against the Medici family. In that year, he probably opened his independent workshop, leaving that of his master Andrea del Verrocchio, and, in its final months, he began to paint two paintings representing the Virgin Mary. One of these paintings is very likely the Benois Madonna at the State Hermitage, St. Petersburg; a work that marks a strong change in Leonardo's style and power of expression and his representation of light and human emotions. This book provides an in-depth analysis of Leonardo's growth as an artist in this year, detailing his training, his culture, his collaboration with Verrocchio, and his engagement in the artistic and cultural life of 1460s and 1470s Florence.
Download or read book Leonardo Da Vinci written by Carmen Bambach and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Leonardo Da Vinci written by Carmen Bambach and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 634 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A modern rethinking of the career and vision of one of the greatest artists of all time on the 500th anniversary of his death The towering genius of Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) has been celebrated--and remained undisputed--for hundreds of years. A groundbreaking, essential addition to scholarship, Leonardo da Vinci Rediscovered continues this legacy while simultaneously reexamining the multifaceted artist's life and work from the ground up. This authoritative, four-volume study marks the 500th anniversary of the great master's death with a sweeping, up-to-date portrait of Leonardo as he has never been seen before. Internationally renowned Leonardo specialist Carmen C. Bambach unfurls new narratives, largely based on the most important, yet most misunderstood, body of evidence available: the artist's drawings, paintings, and manuscripts. In the manner of a biographer, Bambach combs through contemporary documents and more than 4,000 surviving sheets of Leonardo's notes and drawings to extract details about his development as an artist and thinker that have never before been suggested. Some 1,500 illustrations portray the staggering, spectacular legacy that Leonardo left behind on paper and canvas. Through Bambach's comprehensive research, Leonardo emerges as a figure who both embodies his era and completely transcends it, enduring as one of history's greatest artists, scientists, and inventors."--from publisher
Download or read book Leonardo Da Vinci Leonardo s projects c 1500 1519 written by Claire J. Farago and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Leonardo da Vinci written by Walter Isaacson and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2017-10-17 with total page 624 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The #1 New York Times bestseller from Walter Isaacson brings Leonardo da Vinci to life in this exciting new biography that is “a study in creativity: how to define it, how to achieve it…Most important, it is a powerful story of an exhilarating mind and life” (The New Yorker). Based on thousands of pages from Leonardo da Vinci’s astonishing notebooks and new discoveries about his life and work, Walter Isaacson “deftly reveals an intimate Leonardo” (San Francisco Chronicle) in a narrative that connects his art to his science. He shows how Leonardo’s genius was based on skills we can improve in ourselves, such as passionate curiosity, careful observation, and an imagination so playful that it flirted with fantasy. He produced the two most famous paintings in history, The Last Supper and the Mona Lisa. With a passion that sometimes became obsessive, he pursued innovative studies of anatomy, fossils, birds, the heart, flying machines, botany, geology, and weaponry. He explored the math of optics, showed how light rays strike the cornea, and produced illusions of changing perspectives in The Last Supper. His ability to stand at the crossroads of the humanities and the sciences, made iconic by his drawing of Vitruvian Man, made him history’s most creative genius. In the “luminous” (Daily Beast) Leonardo da Vinci, Isaacson describes how Leonardo’s delight at combining diverse passions remains the ultimate recipe for creativity. So, too, does his ease at being a bit of a misfit: illegitimate, gay, vegetarian, left-handed, easily distracted, and at times heretical. His life should remind us of the importance to be imaginative and, like talented rebels in any era, to think different. Here, da Vinci “comes to life in all his remarkable brilliance and oddity in Walter Isaacson’s ambitious new biography…a vigorous, insightful portrait” (The Washington Post).
Download or read book More Than 2 Leonardo in Anti Theory written by Susan Audrey Grundy and published by Susan Grundy. This book was released on 2023-08-22 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: South African art historian Susan Grundy offers a trove of unusual and arcanely brilliant alternative ideas about the mysterious Renaissance polymath painter, found in what she calls Leonardo anti-theory. In a narrative full of twists and turns, arguments and counterarguments, readers will be transfixed from beginning to end. Significantly, the author uses anti-theory to demonstrate the paintings and the Notebooks usually attributed to one “Leonardo da Vinci,” were alternatively produced by a number of artists and scientists. Ultimately, Grundy shows all Leonardo anti-theory is (a little bit or a lot) right; while all mainstream rhetoric is (mostly a lot) wrong. The author introduces the neglected masters, and even a possible mistress, in the workshops of Milan, Florence, and Rome.
Download or read book Leonardo s Salvator Mundi and the Collecting of Leonardo in the Stuart Courts written by Martin Kemp and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2019-11-19 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Salvator Mundi is the first Leonardo painting to be discovered for over a century. Following its re-emergence, it played a leading role in the landmark Leonardo exhibition at the National Gallery in London in 2011, after which it was purchased by a Russian oligarch. In 2017 it was auctioned by Christie's in New York, fetching the world record price of $450m, and now forms part of the collection of Louvre Abu Dhabi. The Salvator Mundi may be seen as the devotional counterpart to the Mona Lisa, having an extraordinary, communicative presence. The artist has reformed the very traditional subject matter in a number of ways. The elusiveness of Christ's expression suggests his spiritual origins beyond the world of the senses. The traditional sphere of the earth has been transformed into a rock-crystal orb and signifies a crystalline sphere of the heavens. In addition to its spiritual dimension, the image exploits Leonardo's optical knowledge and his growing sense of the illusiveness of seeing. Only the blessing hand is in reasonably sharp focus, with his features softly veiled. The scintillating curls of his hair are characterised in line with his theory that the physics of the curling of hair is analogous to vortex motion in water. This book looks at evidence of Leonardo's Salvator Mundi in the collections of Charles I and Charles II. It explores the appraisal of works by Leonardo at the Stuart courts, and proposes that how works attributed to Leonardo were first encountered and understood in seventeenth-century Britain would shape the wider evolution of Leonardo as a cultural icon. This volume gives a dramatic first-hand account of the modern-day discovery of the painting, from its purchase in a minor New Orleans auction house, to the cleaning of the picture that would disclose it as Leonardo's startling original, and the research processes that would uncover illustrious and obscure former owners. The book presents the definitive study of the new masterpiece.
Download or read book Da Vinci s Ghost written by Toby Lester and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-02-07 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Da Vinci's Ghost, critically acclaimed historian Toby Lester tells the story of the world’s most iconic image, the Vitruvian Man, and sheds surprising new light on the artistry and scholarship of Leonardo da Vinci, one of history’s most fascinating figures. Deftly weaving together art, architecture, history, theology, and much else, Da Vinci's Ghost is a first-rate intellectual enchantment.”—Charles Mann, author of 1493 Da Vinci didn’t summon Vitruvian Man out of thin air. He was inspired by the idea originally formulated by the Roman architect Vitruvius, who suggested that the human body could be made to fit inside a circle, long associated with the divine, and a square, related to the earthly and secular. To place a man inside those shapes was to imply that the human body could indeed be a blueprint for the workings of the universe. Da Vinci elevated Vitruvius’ idea to exhilarating heights when he set out to do something unprecedented, if the human body truly reflected the cosmos, he reasoned, then studying its anatomy more thoroughly than had ever been attempted before—peering deep into body and soul—might grant him an almost godlike perspective on the makeup of the world. Written with the same narrative flair and intellectual sweep as Lester’s award-winning first book, the “almost unbearably thrilling” (Simon Winchester) Fourth Part of the World, and beautifully illustrated with Da Vinci's drawings, Da Vinci’s Ghost follows Da Vinci on his journey to understanding the secrets of the Vitruvian man. It captures a pivotal time in Western history when the Middle Ages were giving way to the Renaissance, when art, science, and philosophy were rapidly converging, and when it seemed possible that a single human being might embody—and even understand—the nature of the universe.
