Download or read book Leonardo Da Vinci Sculptor Reprinted from Art Studies 1926 With Plates written by Raymond S. Stites and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Leonardo Da Vinci written by Osvald Siren and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-10-22 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Leonardo Da Vinci: The Artist and the Man Thus in studying Leonardo as an artist, we are often obliged to have resort to suggestions and reminiscences, preparatory studies and imitations, rather than to complete, original works of the master himself. The chief duty of the historian of art thus in many cases consists of a study of the preparatory drawings (and of the imita tions), which may together serve to enlighten us as to the appearance and nature of the lost or unfinished work. It cannot be denied that this involves a regrettable limitation and a formidable Obstacle to the popularization of Leonardo's works; the limitation is, however, not so great as many are disposed to assume. The preludes and impromptus of a great composer may contain all the beautiful motives of his completed symphonies, even if the instrumentation be poor and the execution perfunctory. It is beyond the scope of the present study to mention all that Leonardo prepared and planned as an artist. We must confine our selves mainly to paintings and sculptures which were executed wholly or in part, and to such drawings as were made in preparation for important works. It has not been my main Object to explain and analyze everything; on the contrary, numbers of passages written with that purpose in the original manuscript have been excluded. I have chosen rather to direct attention and interest to Leonardo's chief qualities as an artist. Subjective hypotheses and questions of authenticity involving discussion of the pros and cons on certain moot points have been relegated to a subordinate place, and priority has been given to the study of the artist's mode of expression and to the course of his steady development in the light of his authentic works. For this purpose it also seems that comparisons between Leonardo's works and earlier and later representations of similar subjects by other artists will not fail to be of value, since Leonardo's position in the history of art, and the epoch-making character of his contributions both in line and form can be realized most forcibly in the light of such comparison. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Leonardo Da Vinci and the Art of Sculpture written by Gary M. Radke and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) is renowned as a painter, designer, draftsman, architect, engineer, scientist, and theorist. His work as a sculptor is not commonly acknowledged, and many have argued that Leonardo believed that sculpture was an inferior art form ("of lesser genius than painting"). Challenging and overturning these assumptions, Leonardo da Vinci and the Art of Sculpture looks at the sculptural projects that the artist undertook, as well as the late Renaissance sculptures that were indebted to him." "Leonardo consistently drew inspiration from ancient sculpture, admired the work of such contemporary sculptural innovators as Donatello, and even trained under Andrea del Verrocchio, the preeminent bronze sculptor of late 15th-century Florence. Furthermore, Leonardo spent many years of his life working on two larger-than-life-sized horse sculptures - Sforza and Trivulzio - monuments to Francesco Sforza, the Duke of Milan, and to Gian Giacomo Trivulzio, his sucessor. Although neither was completed, the authors argue that these equestrian monuments show how Leonardo was intensely engaged with the design dilemmas of representing a horse rearing on its hind legs. Another highlight of the book is a group of new images of the John the Baptist Preaching to a Levite and a Pharisee, a recently restored large-scale work in the Florentine Baptistery that clearly demonstrates Leonardo's collaboration with Giovanni Francesco Rustici." --Book Jacket.
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 Complete Paintings of Leonardo Da Vinci written by Leonardo (da Vinci) and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Drawings of Leonardo Da Vinci written by Leonardo (da Vinci) and published by London : J. Cape. This book was released on 1945 with total page 510 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Leonardo Da Vinci Thoughts on Art and Life written by Leonardo da Vinci and published by Aegitas. This book was released on 2021-07-12 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thoughts On Art and Life by Leonardo Da Vinci; tranbslated by Translated by Maurice Baring, english edition 1906. A fascinating collection of writings from the great polymath of the Italian Renaissaince, Leonardo da Vinci. There are sections covering the great man and 's thoughts on life, art and science. Maurice Baring trawled the available manuscripts to distil da Vinci and 's writings on these subjects into a single, accessible tome, which will be of interest to students of da Vinci, the Renaissance and the history of both art and science. Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci (1452-1519) was an Italian Renaissance polymath: painter, sculptor, architect, musician, scientist, mathematician, engineer, inventor, anatomist, geologist, cartographer, botanist, and writer. His genius, perhaps more than that of any other figure, epitomized the Renaissance humanist ideal.
Download or read book The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci written by Leonardo da Vinci and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2012-07-12 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume 1 of 2-volume set. Total of 1,566 extracts includes writings on painting, sculpture, architecture, anatomy, mining, inventions, and music. Dual Italian-English texts, with 186 plates plus over 500 additional drawings.
Download or read book The National Union Catalog Pre 1956 Imprints written by Library of Congress and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 712 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Leonardo s Anatomical Drawings written by Leonardo da Vinci and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2012-03-08 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Da Vinci was able to produce remarkably accurate depictions of the "ideal" human figure. This exceptional collection reprints 59 sketches of the skeleton, skull, upper and lower extremities, embryos, and other subjects.
Download or read book The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci Complete written by Leonardo da Vinci and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-03-15 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scientist, painter, mechanical engineer, sculptor, thinker, city planner, storyteller, musician, architect - Leonardo da Vinci, builder of the first flying machine, was one of the great universal geniuses of Western civilization. His voluminous notebooks, the great storehouse of his theories and discoveries, are presented here in 1566 extracts that reveal the full range of Leonardo's versatile interest: all the important writings on painting, sculpture, architecture, anatomy, astronomy, geography, topography, and other fields are included, in both Italian and English, with 186 plates of manuscript pages and many other drawings reproduced in facsimile size. The first volume, which contains all of Leonardo's writings on aspects of painting, includes discussions of such basic scientific areas as the structure of the eye and vision, perspective, the science of light and shade, the perspective of disappearance, theory of color, perspective of color, proportions and movements of the human figure, botany for painters, and the elements of landscape painting. A section on the practice of painting includes moral precepts for painters and writings on composition, materials, and the philosophy of art. The second volume contains writings on sculpture, architecture (plans for towns, streets, and canals, churches, palaces, castles, and villas, theoretical writings on arches, domes, fissures, etc.), zoology, physiology (including his amazingly accurate theories of blood circulation), medicine, astronomy, geography (including has famous writings and drawings on the movement of water), topography (observations in Italy, France, and other areas), naval warfare, swimming, theory of flying machines, mining, music, and other topics. A selection of philosophical maxims, morals, polemics, fables, jests, studies in the lives and habits of animals, tales, and prophecies display Leonardo's abilities as a writer and scholar. The second volume also contains some letters, personal records, inventories, and accounts, and concludes with Leonardo's will. The drawings include sketches and studies for some of Leonardo's greatest works of art - The Last Supper, the lost Battle of Anghiari, The Virgin of the Rocks, and the destroyed Sforza monument.
Download or read book Masters of Art written by Leonardo da Vinci and published by Delphi Classics. This book was released on 2012 with total page 1601 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Connoisseur written by and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Leonardo Da Vinci 1452 1519 written by Frank Zöllner and published by Taschen America Llc. This book was released on 2003 with total page 695 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This XXL-format comprehensive survey is the most complete book ever made on the subject of this Italian painter, sculptor, architect, engineer, scientist and all-around genius. With huge, full-bleed details of Leonardo's masterworks, this highly original publication allows the reader to inspect the subtlest facets of his brushstrokes.
Download or read book Leonardo Da Vinci on Painting written by Leonardo (da Vinci) and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Leonardo Da Vinci written by Leonardo (da Vinci) and published by . This book was released on 1944 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chiefly reproductions of Leonardo's paintings, drawings, and sculptures, accompanied by notes by Ludwig Goldscheider, a biographical sketch by Giorgio Vasari, and some letters and documents by Leonardo.
Download or read book Leonardo Da Vinci written by Leonardo da Vinci and published by Hatje Cantz. This book was released on 1997 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A book about the life of leonardo da vinci's life work
