Author: Roger Whiting
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781845730956
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
Leonardo da Vinci had an insatiable desire to understand the world around him and the place of humanity in it, and he believed that the knowledge he sought could only be gained through direct experience. This book contains many extracts of his writings, revealing the complex workings of his mind.
The Art of Leonardo Da Vinci
Author: Roger Whiting
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781845730956
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
Leonardo da Vinci had an insatiable desire to understand the world around him and the place of humanity in it, and he believed that the knowledge he sought could only be gained through direct experience. This book contains many extracts of his writings, revealing the complex workings of his mind.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781845730956
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
Leonardo da Vinci had an insatiable desire to understand the world around him and the place of humanity in it, and he believed that the knowledge he sought could only be gained through direct experience. This book contains many extracts of his writings, revealing the complex workings of his mind.
Leonardo Da Vinci
Author: Laura Layton Strom
Publisher: Children's Press(CT)
ISBN: 9780531177716
Category : Artists
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A short look at the life of a genius.
Publisher: Children's Press(CT)
ISBN: 9780531177716
Category : Artists
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A short look at the life of a genius.
Leonardo Da Vinci, 1452-1519
Author: Frank Zöllner
Publisher: Taschen
ISBN: 9783822859797
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 104
Book Description
Life and work of the renowned painter, scientist, and philosopher of the Renaissance period.
Publisher: Taschen
ISBN: 9783822859797
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 104
Book Description
Life and work of the renowned painter, scientist, and philosopher of the Renaissance period.
Leonardo Da Vinci Master Draftsman
Author: Leonardo (da Vinci)
Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN: 1588390330
Category : Drawing, Italian
Languages : en
Pages : 802
Book Description
This handsome book offers a unified and fascinating portrait of Leonardo as draftsman, integrating his roles as artist, scientist, inventor, theorist, and teacher. 250 illustrations.
Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN: 1588390330
Category : Drawing, Italian
Languages : en
Pages : 802
Book Description
This handsome book offers a unified and fascinating portrait of Leonardo as draftsman, integrating his roles as artist, scientist, inventor, theorist, and teacher. 250 illustrations.
The Shadow Drawing
Author: Francesca Fiorani
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
ISBN: 0374715297
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 373
Book Description
“Insightful and beautiful. . . . A wonderful study of how Leonardo’s art and science are interwoven.” —Walter Isaacson, author of Leonardo Da Vinci A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice Shortly after Leonardo da Vinci’s death, his peers and rivals created the myth of the two Leonardos: there was Leonardo the artist and then, later in life, Leonardo the scientist. In this pathbreaking biographical interpretation, the art historian Francesca Fiorani tells a very different and much more interesting story. Taking a fresh look at Leonardo’s celebrated but challenging notebooks and other sources, Fiorani shows that Leonardo became fluent in science when he was still young man. As an apprentice in a Florence studio, he was especially interested in the science of optics. He aspired to use this knowledge to capture—as no artist before him had ever done—the interior lives of his subjects, to paint the human soul in its smallest, tenderest motions and vicissitudes. And then he hoped to take one further step: to gather his scientific knowledge together in a book that would be even more important than his paintings. In The Shadow Drawing, Fiorani revises our understanding of Leonardo the artist’s most renowned paintings and reconstructs the wisdom Leonardo the author hoped to impart. The result is both a stirring biography and a bold reconsideration of how the Renaissance understood science and art—and of what was lost when the two were sundered. “Fiorani’s lively intellectual adventure gives us new understanding and appreciation of Leonardo’s cross-fertilization of art and science. It is a perceptive biography of Leonardo exploring the frontiers of science but also a brilliantly informative guide to his paintings.” —Ross King, author of Brunelleschi’s Dome, Leonardo and the Last Supper, and Mad Enchantment
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
ISBN: 0374715297
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 373
Book Description
“Insightful and beautiful. . . . A wonderful study of how Leonardo’s art and science are interwoven.” —Walter Isaacson, author of Leonardo Da Vinci A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice Shortly after Leonardo da Vinci’s death, his peers and rivals created the myth of the two Leonardos: there was Leonardo the artist and then, later in life, Leonardo the scientist. In this pathbreaking biographical interpretation, the art historian Francesca Fiorani tells a very different and much more interesting story. Taking a fresh look at Leonardo’s celebrated but challenging notebooks and other sources, Fiorani shows that Leonardo became fluent in science when he was still young man. As an apprentice in a Florence studio, he was especially interested in the science of optics. He aspired to use this knowledge to capture—as no artist before him had ever done—the interior lives of his subjects, to paint the human soul in its smallest, tenderest motions and vicissitudes. And then he hoped to take one further step: to gather his scientific knowledge together in a book that would be even more important than his paintings. In The Shadow Drawing, Fiorani revises our understanding of Leonardo the artist’s most renowned paintings and reconstructs the wisdom Leonardo the author hoped to impart. The result is both a stirring biography and a bold reconsideration of how the Renaissance understood science and art—and of what was lost when the two were sundered. “Fiorani’s lively intellectual adventure gives us new understanding and appreciation of Leonardo’s cross-fertilization of art and science. It is a perceptive biography of Leonardo exploring the frontiers of science but also a brilliantly informative guide to his paintings.” —Ross King, author of Brunelleschi’s Dome, Leonardo and the Last Supper, and Mad Enchantment
Leonardo da Vinci
Author: Pietro C. Marani
Publisher: Harry N. Abrams
ISBN: 9781419740671
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Offers a portrait of the artist, covering his life, creative process, and his art, presented in more than 295 illustrations that span the length and breadth of his career.
Publisher: Harry N. Abrams
ISBN: 9781419740671
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Offers a portrait of the artist, covering his life, creative process, and his art, presented in more than 295 illustrations that span the length and breadth of his career.
The Life and Works of Leonardo Da Vinci
Author: Rosalind Ormiston
Publisher: Lorenz Books
ISBN: 9780857231505
Category : Artists
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
A fascinating biography of the Renaissance artist and inventor, and gallery of paintings and drawings.
Publisher: Lorenz Books
ISBN: 9780857231505
Category : Artists
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
A fascinating biography of the Renaissance artist and inventor, and gallery of paintings and drawings.
Leonardo Da Vinci
Author: Martin Clayton
Publisher: Royal Collection Trust
ISBN: 9781909741034
Category : Anatomy, Artistic
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
"First published in hardback 2012 by Royal Collection Trust".-Title page verso.
Publisher: Royal Collection Trust
ISBN: 9781909741034
Category : Anatomy, Artistic
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
"First published in hardback 2012 by Royal Collection Trust".-Title page verso.
Leonardo da Vinci: Masterworks
Author: Rosalind Ormiston
Publisher: Flame Tree Illustrated
ISBN: 9781787553125
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
"For lovers of art history, this lavishly illustrated and well-written book is an absolute gem." – Italia! Magazine Leonardo da Vinci was the epitome of the Renaissance humanist ideal, a logical polymath of epic proportions who excelled and had interests not just in art but in invention, anatomy, architecture, engineering, literature, mathematics, music, science, astronomy and more. His oeuvre is astounding and he is rightly famed for his masterpieces of painting such as the Mona Lisa and The Last Supper, and his astonishingly technical and graceful drawings. The phenomenon that was Leonardo would not of course have flourished to such an extent had it not been for the patronage and sponsorship of the Medici family, who commissioned a large proportion of the art and architecture of the era and fostered a fertile climate for creativity. This sumptuous new book offers a broader view of this master artist in the context of this environment, alongside the work of other key artists who benefited from the Medicis, from Brunelleschi through Donatello to Michelangelo and Raphael.
Publisher: Flame Tree Illustrated
ISBN: 9781787553125
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
"For lovers of art history, this lavishly illustrated and well-written book is an absolute gem." – Italia! Magazine Leonardo da Vinci was the epitome of the Renaissance humanist ideal, a logical polymath of epic proportions who excelled and had interests not just in art but in invention, anatomy, architecture, engineering, literature, mathematics, music, science, astronomy and more. His oeuvre is astounding and he is rightly famed for his masterpieces of painting such as the Mona Lisa and The Last Supper, and his astonishingly technical and graceful drawings. The phenomenon that was Leonardo would not of course have flourished to such an extent had it not been for the patronage and sponsorship of the Medici family, who commissioned a large proportion of the art and architecture of the era and fostered a fertile climate for creativity. This sumptuous new book offers a broader view of this master artist in the context of this environment, alongside the work of other key artists who benefited from the Medicis, from Brunelleschi through Donatello to Michelangelo and Raphael.
Leonardo da Vinci Drawings Masterpieces of Art
Author: Susan Grange
Publisher: Flame Tree Illustrated
ISBN: 9781783613588
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Leonardo da Vinci was the original Renaissance Man, an artist, mathematician, inventor and writer amongst his many talents. His skilful observations of the mechanics of the body informed both his work, and the generations that followed. But his drawings are elegant too, with the gentle features of his female subjects in particular graced with unrivalled care and eloquence. Da Vinci's illustrations lie at the heart of our heritage and this new book offers a breadth and scale that will satisfy both the casual and informed reader.
Publisher: Flame Tree Illustrated
ISBN: 9781783613588
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Leonardo da Vinci was the original Renaissance Man, an artist, mathematician, inventor and writer amongst his many talents. His skilful observations of the mechanics of the body informed both his work, and the generations that followed. But his drawings are elegant too, with the gentle features of his female subjects in particular graced with unrivalled care and eloquence. Da Vinci's illustrations lie at the heart of our heritage and this new book offers a breadth and scale that will satisfy both the casual and informed reader.