Leonardo's art is the apotheosis of Renaissance - and Western - art.
Author: James Pearson
Publisher: Crescent Moon Pub
ISBN:
Category: Art
Page: 188
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Leonardo's art is the apotheosis of Renaissance - and Western - art. He depicted angels, Madonnas and saints in ever-mysterious images. His sfumato paintings remain some of the most hypnotic in art. The sheer intensity of Leonardo's curiosity and his spectacular inventiveness in the fields of science, botany, geology, anatomy, medicine and warfare make him more than worthy of the name 'universal genius'.
Author: Kenneth Clark
Publisher:
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Category: Artists
Page: 181
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Contains early biographical information and art criticism of Leonardo da Vinci and his work.
Author: Leonardo (da Vinci)
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 9780815329336
Category: Art
Page: 502
View: 151
Contains early biographical information and art criticism of Leonardo da Vinci and his work.
Also available as the third book in a five volume set (ISBN#0815329334)
Author: Leonardo (da Vinci)
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 9780815329350
Category: Art
Page: 412
View: 592
Also available as the third book in a five volume set (ISBN#0815329334)
Author: Jens Thiis
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category:
Page: 280
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Every idea, no matter how complex, is explained in 300 words and one picture, all digestible in 30 seconds. 30-Second Leonardo da Vinci uses this unique approach to grapple with the truly diverse thoughts of the ultimate Renaissance Man.
Author: Marina Wallace
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781782400837
Category: Inventions
Page: 160
View: 626
The bestselling 30-Second... series takes a revolutionary approach to learning about those subjects you feel you should really understand. Each title selects a popular topic and dissects it into the 50 most significant ideas at its heart. Every idea, no matter how complex, is explained in 300 words and one picture, all digestible in 30 seconds. 30-Second Leonardo da Vinci uses this unique approach to grapple with the truly diverse thoughts of the ultimate Renaissance Man. Artist, anatomist, sculptor, inventor, architect, cartographer, mathematician, musician, botanist, geologist the word polymath does not quite do Leonardo justice. The painter of the Mona Lisa and conceptualizer of the helicopter seems like a Renaissance superhero. Here, the worlds leading Leonardo scholars present an instant and expert guide to the breadth and brilliance of his greatest innovations.
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Category: Drawing
Page: 44
View: 99
Learn about an inventor, musician, engineer, scientist and painter of the world-famous Mona Lisa. Includes grey-scale illustrations, table of contents, bibliography and timelines. Chapter Book: 9 chapters.
Author: Roberta Edwards
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781424221400
Category: Juvenile Fiction
Page: 106
View: 387
Learn about an inventor, musician, engineer, scientist and painter of the world-famous Mona Lisa. Includes grey-scale illustrations, table of contents, bibliography and timelines. Chapter Book: 9 chapters.
Author: Leonardo (da Vinci)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category: Anatomy, Artistic
Page: 60
View: 898
Author: Leonardo (da Vinci)
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN:
Category: Painting
Page: 301
View: 243
This book has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature.
Author: Charles Lewis Hind
Publisher:
ISBN: 9789354032165
Category: History
Page: 68
View: 995
This new series explores the lives of the men and women who had a profound influence on the shaping of the world--particularly the ways in which the sciences, arts, and letters are perceived by the modern observer, Ideally suited for school ...
Author: Rachel A. Koestler-Grack
Publisher: Infobase Publishing
ISBN: 1438104189
Category: Artists
Page: 152
View: 666
This new series explores the lives of the men and women who had a profound influence on the shaping of the world--particularly the ways in which the sciences, arts, and letters are perceived by the modern observer, Ideally suited for school reports, these books are fully documented, with sidebars that provide background information about each subject. This series meets world history curriculum standards.
Author: Leonardo (da Vinci)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category:
Page: 16
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Life and work of the renowned painter, scientist, and philosopher of the Renaissance period.
Author: Frank Zöllner
Publisher: Taschen
ISBN: 9783822859797
Category: Art
Page: 96
View: 898
Life and work of the renowned painter, scientist, and philosopher of the Renaissance period.
Presents the life of the late Italian artist, scientist, engineer, and inventor, and features reproductions with analyses of over three hundred pieces of his artwork.
Author: Rosalind Ormiston
Publisher: Southwater Publishing
ISBN: 9780754823261
Category: Art
Page: 256
View: 695
An expert and comprehensive new reference book on the life and works of influential artist, engineer, inventor and scientist Leonardo da Vnci
This remarkable book takes as its subject one of the most outstanding men that ever lived. The ultimate prodigy, Leonardo da Vinci was an artist of great originality and power, a scientist, and a powerful thinker.
Author: Sigmund Freud
Publisher:
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Category:
Page: 56
View: 144
This remarkable book takes as its subject one of the most outstanding men that ever lived. The ultimate prodigy, Leonardo da Vinci was an artist of great originality and power, a scientist, and a powerful thinker. According to Sigmund Freud, he was also a flawed, repressed homosexual. The first psychosexual history to be published, Leonardo da Vinci was the only biography the great psychoanalyst wrote. When Jung first saw it, he told Freud it was 'wonderful', and it remained Freud's favourite composition. The text includes the first full emergence of the concept of narcissism and develops Freud's theories of homosexuality. While based upon controversial research, the book offers a fascinating insight into two men - the subject and the author. If you've ever wondered just what lies behind the Mona Lisa's enigmatic smile, read Freud on Leonardo. It's genius on genius.When psychoanalytic investigation, which usually contents itself with frail human material, approaches the great personages of humanity, it is not impelled to it by motives which are often attributed to it by laymen. It does not strive "to blacken the radiant and to drag the sublime into the mire"; it finds no satisfaction in diminishing the distance between the perfection of the great and the inadequacy of the ordinary objects. But it cannot help finding that everything is worthy of understanding that can be perceived through those prototypes, and it also believes that none is so big as to be ashamed of being subject to the laws which control the normal and morbid actions with the same strictness.Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) was admired even by his contemporaries as one of the greatest men of the Italian Renaissance, still even then he appeared as mysterious to them as he now appears to us. An all-sided genius, "whose form can only be divined but never deeply fathomed," he exerted the most decisive influence on his time as an artist; and it remained to us to recognize his greatness as a naturalist which was united in him with the artist. Although he left masterpieces of the art of painting, while his scientific discoveries remained unpublished and unused, the investigator in him has never quite left the artist, often it has severely injured the artist and in the end it has perhaps suppressed the artist altogether. According to Vasari, Leonardo reproached himself during the last hour of his life for having insulted God and men because he has not done his duty to his art. And even if Vasari's story lacks all probability and belongs to those legends which began to be woven about the mystic master while he was still living, it nevertheless retains indisputable value as a testimonial of the judgment of those people and of those times.
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 ( ...
Author: Matthew Landrus
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781741730449
Category: Art, Renaissance
Page: 63
View: 841
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.
Traces the life and accomplishments in art and science of the Renaissance genius, and depicts the historical background of his age
Author: Alessandro Vezzosi
Publisher: Harry N Abrams Incorporated
ISBN:
Category: Art
Page: 159
View: 510
Traces the life and accomplishments in art and science of the Renaissance genius, and depicts the historical background of his age
The marriage of art and science is celebrated in this beautifully illustrated four-color biography and activity book.
Author: Janis Herbert
Publisher: Chicago Review Press
ISBN: 1613742290
Category: Juvenile Nonfiction
Page: 104
View: 939
The marriage of art and science is celebrated in this beautifully illustrated four-color biography and activity book. Kids will begin to understand the important discoveries that da Vinci made through inspiring activities like determining the launch angle of a catapult, sketching birds and other animals, creating a map, learning to look at a painting, and much more. Includes a glossary, bibliography, listing of pertinent museums and Web sites, a timeline, and many interesting sidebars.
Follows the differing opinions and interpretations of Leonardo da Vinci since the sixteenth century.
Author: A. Richard Turner
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520089389
Category: Art
Page: 268
View: 715
Follows the differing opinions and interpretations of Leonardo da Vinci since the sixteenth century.