Download or read book Leonardo da Vinci l Angelo incarnato Salai the Angel in the Flesh Salai written by and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 13 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Angel in the flesh Salai written by Carlo Pedretti and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Leonardo da Vinci written by Carlo Pedretti and published by CB Edizioni. This book was released on 2011 with total page 540 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Dosso s Fate written by Dosso Dossi and published by Getty Publications. This book was released on 1998 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dosso Dossi has long been considered one of Renaissance Italy's most intriguing artists. Although a wealth of documents chronicles his life, he remains, in many ways, an enigma, and his art continues to be as elusive as it is compelling. In Dosso's Fate, leading scholars from a wide range of disciplines examine the social, intellectual, and historical contexts of his art, focusing on the development of new genres of painting, questions of style and chronology, the influence of courtly culture, and the work of his collaborators, as well as his visual and literary sources and his painting technique. The result is an important and original contribution not only to literature on Dosso Dossi but also to the study of cultural history in early modern Italy.
Download or read book Practice and Theory in the Italian Renaissance Workshop written by Christina Neilson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-07-18 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Verrocchio worked in an extraordinarily wide array of media and used unusual practices of making to express ideas.
Download or read book Sights and Insights written by Mary N. Harris and published by Edizioni Plus. This book was released on 2007 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Leonardo written by Martin Kemp and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2011-10-06 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Florence and Northern Tuscany with Genoa written by Edward Hutton and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 556 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Leonardo Architecture written by Sara Taglialagamba and published by CB Edizioni. This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Giorgio Vasari, Leonardo's first biographer, said that the artist used to sketch "many designs for architecture". In fact, in the so-called "letter of employment" written to Ludovico il Moro in 1482, Leonardo presented himself as a military engineer, able to satisfy the demands of the Duke of Milan in peace and in war, declaring that he "can give perfect satisfaction and to the equal of any other in architecture and the composition of buildings public and private". And then he speaks of his ability in hydraulic engineering for conducting water "from one level to another". Leonardo studied in depth several ancient texts but also the treatises of his own time: in particular the treatise of military and civil architecture by the Sienese engineer and architect Francesco di Giorgio Martini, a text that contains projects for fortifications with bastions, able to offer resistance to the artillery fire. This could explain Leonardo's fascination with fortifications, his involvement in the project to realize the tiburio for the Milan cathedral. He made a great many architectural projects for gardens and elegant buildings, testing out innovative solutions, such as the internal stairs. This allows us to better understand his excellent competence in architecture and why he attempted to plan the "ideal city", conceived as being organized on two different levels, one for pedestrians and the other suitable for vehicle transportation. He also projected also religious buildings, studying different solutions for the centralized plan based on complex systems of architectural symmetries.
Download or read book This is Not Leonardo Da Vinci written by Riccardo Magnani and published by . This book was released on 2021-01-04 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 biggest "discovery" of all, the Americas. This is not Leonardo provides the key to understanding Leonardo's visual language, within the context of the Renaissance and its artists-essential to fully comprehend his work and the many clues he left behind. Magnani reveals little-known facts about Leonardo's education, long suppressed by the Catholic Church-from his use of iconography of the ancient Egyptians, Greeks and Byzantines, to his influence by the Neoplatonic movement led by George Gemistus. Thanks to the new insights presented by This is not Leonardo, the dogmatic prism that our Western society has employed for so long to understand Leonardo da Vinci can now finally be challenged.
Download or read book Leonardo on the Human Body written by Leonardo (da Vinci) and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 1983-01-01 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "It is a miracle that any one man should have observed, read, and written down so much in a single lifetime."--Kenneth Clark Painter, sculptor, musician, scientist, architect, engineer, inventor . . . perhaps no other figure so fully embodies the Western Ideal of "Renaissance man" as Leonardo da Vinci. Leonardo was not content, however, to master an artistic technique or record the mechanics of a device; he was driven by an insatiable curiosity to understand why. His writings, interests, and musings are uniformly characterized by an incisive, probing, questioning mind. It was with this piercing intellectual scrutiny and detailed scientific thoroughness that Leonardo undertook the study of the human body. This exceptional volume reproduces more than 1,200 of Leonardo's anatomical drawings on 215 clearly printed black-and-white plates. The drawings have been arranged in chronological sequence to display Leonardo's development and growth as an anatomist. Leonardo's text, which accompanies the drawings--sometimes explanatory, sometimes autobiographical and anecdotal--has been translated into English by the distinguished medical professors Drs. O'Malley and Saunders. In their fascinating biographical introduction, the authors evaluate Leonardo's position in the historical development of anatomy and anatomical illustration. Each plate is accompanied by explanatory notes and an evaluation of the individual plate and an indication of its relationship to the work as a whole. While notable for their extraordinary beauty and precision, Leonardo's anatomical drawings were also far in advance of all contemporary work and scientifically the equal of anything that appeared well into the seventeenth century. Unlike most of his predecessors and contemporaries, Leonardo took nothing on trust and had faith only in his own observations and experiments. In anatomy, as in his other investigations, Leonardo's great distinction is the truly scientific nature of his methods. Herein then are over 1,200 of Leonardo's anatomical illustrations organized into eight major areas of study: Osteological System, Myological System, Comparative Anatomy, Nervous System, Respiratory System, Alimentary System, Genito-Urinary System, and Embryology. Artists, illustrators, physicians, students, teachers, scientists, and appreciators of Leonardo's extraordinary genius will find in these 1,200 drawings the perfect union of art and science. Carefully detailed and accurate in their data, beautiful and vibrant in their technique, they remain today--nearly five centuries later--the finest anatomical drawings ever made. Dover (1983) unabridged and unaltered republication of "Leonardo da Vinci on the Human Body: The Anatomical, Physiological, and Embryological Drawings of Leonardo da Vinci, " originally published by Henry Schuman, New York, 1952.
Download or read book The Life of Michelangelo written by David Hemsoll and published by Getty Publications. This book was released on 2018-04-03 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fame and influence of Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475–1564) were as immediate as they were unprecedented. It is not surprising, therefore, that he was the only living artist Giorgio Vasari included in the first edition of Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors and Architects, published in 1550. Revised and expanded in 1568, Vasari’s monumental work comprises more than two hundred biographies; for centuries it has been recognized as a seminal text in art history and one of the most important sources on the Italian Renaissance. Vasari’s biography of Michelangelo, the longest in his Lives, presents Michelangelo’s oeuvre as the culminating achievement of Renaissance painting, sculpture, and architecture. He tells the grand story of the artist’s expansive career, profiling his working habits; describing the creation of countless masterpieces, from the David to the Sistine Chapel ceiling; and illuminating his relationships with popes and other illustrious patrons. A lifelong friend, Vasari also quotes generously from the correspondence between the two men; the narrative is further enhanced by an abundance of colorful anecdotes. The volume’s forty-two illustrations convey the range and richness of Michelangelo’s art. An introduction by the scholar David Hemsoll traces the textual development of Vasari’s Lives and situates his biography of Michelangelo in the broader context of Renaissance art history.
Download or read book Angel St John by Leonardo da Vinci written by Carlo Pedretti and published by CB Edizioni. This book was released on 2016 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Durante il suo primo soggiorno lombardo (1482-1499) Leonardo aveva istituito a Milano una vera e propria accademia a emulazione di quella neoplatonica patrocinata da Lorenzo de' Medici a Firenze per gli umanisti e filosofi adunati attorno a Marsilio Ficino. Ben più di una semplice scuola o bottega, oltre ad essere un momento di condivisione di principi artistici, era un cenacolo con una sua dimensione filosofica e intellettuale di portata europea. [...] Nella Achademia di Leonardo giovani allievi come Ambrogio de Predis, Boltraffio, Marco d'Oggiono, Salai, Gianpietrino e Francesco Melzi si confrontavano con il Maestro, guardavano i suoi disegni, e forse anche i suoi manoscritti, ascoltavano i precetti di pittura che Leonardo condivideva con loro - gli stessi che poi il Melzi avrebbe trascritto nel Libro di pittura - e disegnavano a lume di candela. È facile immaginare una scena come quella illustrata da una incisione a bulino di Agostino Veneziano, su disegno di Baccio Bandinelli, uno dei più tardi seguaci di Leonardo, o quella ancor più articolata incisa da Enea Vico, ancora su disegno del Bandinelli, in cui oltre al Maestro con i discepoli raccolti intorno a un tavolo da lavoro si nota, sulla sinistra, altri allievi intenti a disegnare o riflettere davanti al camino accesso mentre in primo piano, lungo tutta la scena, campeggia una serie di elementi scultorei e parti anatomiche da studiare disegnando". Così Carlo Pedretti descrive l'Achademia Leonardi Vinci, la stessa in cui è stato prodotto piccolo dipinto con San Giovanni Battista presentato in questa occasione. Le ricerche di Carlo Pedretti e Margherita Melani permettono di ricostruire il complesso clima culturale in cui Leonardo prima, e i suoi allievi poi, si sono misurati con due soggetti differenti, l'Angelo Annunciante e il San Giovanni Battista, tra Firenze, Roma ed Amboise.
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 Angel in the flesh Salai written by Carlo Pedretti and published by CB Edizioni. This book was released on 2009 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Leonardo's Angel in the Flesh went on display for the first time in the great exhibition on Leonardo's Bridges organised by Sweden in order to celebrate its entrance into the European Community in 1993 and 1994. It received much attention by the media, making numerous newspaper headlines. And since it was all too easy to recognize the appearance of the demoniacal Salai - the handsome boy, object of Leonardo's presumed homosexual attentions - in this singular blasphemous image in the nude, the Swedish exhibition was to include another novelty, the counterpart of the same character in the painting of a Dressed-up Salai in the Alos Foundation.
Download or read book Leonardo Da Vinci the Last Supper written by Michael Ladwein and published by Temple Lodge Publishing. This book was released on 2006 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many great works of art have been created that we call "Christian," but none has received as much acclaim as Leonardo da Vinci's Last Supper. Art lovers venerate it for its composition and noble aesthetics, whereas, for Christians, it epitomizes the intimacy between Christ and his disciples. In recent years--following the publication of bestselling fictional narratives and dubious historical studies--The Last Supper has also become the focus of intrigue, controversy, speculation, and sensation. Recent restoration of the painting has exposed remnants of the original work and removed falsifications created by over-painting. Thus, for the first time since its creation more than five hundred years ago, we can contemplate Da Vinci's masterpiece in its more or less original form. This lavishly illustrated, full-color book reproduces many details of the restored work, and the author turns our attention to newly revealed aspects of The Last Supper that lead to fresh interpretations. The philosopher Rudolf Steiner called The Last Supper the world's most important work of art, adding that it revealed "the meaning of Earth existence." Michael Ladwein sheds light on many aspects of the spiritual facts that can be uncovered in this immortal painting--one that has lost nothing of its urgency in our modern world.
