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Author : Andrew J. Scoma Jr. M.D.
Release : 2019-07-31
Genre : Fiction
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Book Rating : 469/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Leonardo’s Return by : Andrew J. Scoma Jr. M.D.
Download or read book Leonardo’s Return written by Andrew J. Scoma Jr. M.D.. This book was released on 2019-07-31. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Leonardo makes a deal with God to get out of purgatory.
Author : Claire Farago
Release : 2017-07-05
Genre : Art
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Book Rating : 299/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Re-Reading Leonardo by : Claire Farago
Download or read book Re-Reading Leonardo written by Claire Farago. This book was released on 2017-07-05. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For nearly three centuries Leonardo da Vinci's work was known primarily through the abridged version of his Treatise on Painting, first published in Paris in 1651 and soon translated into all the major European languages. Here for the first time is a study that examines the historical reception of this vastly influential text. This collection charts the varied interpretations of Leonardo's ideas in French, Italian, Spanish, English, German, Dutch, Flemish, Greek, and Polish speaking environments where the Trattato was an important resource for the academic instruction of artists, one of the key sources drawn upon by art theorists, and widely read by a diverse network of artists, architects, biographers, natural philosophers, translators, astronomers, publishers, engineers, theologians, aristocrats, lawyers, politicians, entrepreneurs, and collectors. The cross-cultural approach employed here demonstrates that Leonardo's Treatise on Painting is an ideal case study through which to chart the institutionalization of art in Europe and beyond for 400 years. The volume includes original essays by scholars studying a wide variety of national and institutional settings. The coherence of the volume is established by the shared subject matter and interpretative aim: to understand how Leonardo's ideas were used. With its focus on the active reception of an important text overlooked in studies of the artist's solitary genius, the collection takes Leonardo studies to a new level of historical inquiry. Leonardo da Vinci's most significant contribution to Western art was his interpretation of painting as a science grounded in geometry and direct observation of nature. One of the most important questions to emerge from this study is, what enabled the same text to produce so many different styles of painting?
Author : Mike Lankford
Release : 2018-04-03
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
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Book Rating : 159/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Becoming Leonardo by : Mike Lankford
Download or read book Becoming Leonardo written by Mike Lankford. This book was released on 2018-04-03. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Wall Street Journal Book of the Year A Spectator Book of the Year “A truly intimate portrait of one of the greatest creators in human history,” this biography of Leonardo Da Vinci “has the pace, elegance, and authorial omnipresence of a novel,” bringing both artist and Renaissance Italy to life (Noah Charney, author of The Art of Forgery) Why did Leonardo Da Vinci leave so many of his major works uncompleted? Why did this resolute pacifist build war machines for the notorious Borgias? Why did he carry the Mona Lisa with him everywhere he went for decades, yet never quite finish it? Why did he write backwards, and was he really at war with Michelangelo? And was he gay? In a book unlike anything ever written about the Renaissance genius, Mike Lankford explodes every cliché about Da Vinci and then reconstructs him based on a rich trove of available evidence—bringing to life for the modern reader the man who has been studied by scholars for centuries—yet has remained as mysterious as ever. Seeking to envision Da Vinci without the obscuring residue of historical varnish, the sights, sounds, smells, and feel of Renaissance Italy—usually missing in other biographies—are all here, transporting readers back to a world of war and plague and court intrigue, of viciously competitive famous artists, of murderous tyrants with exquisite tastes in art . . . Lankford brilliantly captures Da Vinci’s life as the compelling and dangerous adventure it seems to have actually been—fleeing from one sanctuary to the next, somehow surviving in war zones beside his friend Machiavelli, struggling to make art his way or no way at all . . . and often paying dearly for those decisions. It is a thrilling and absorbing journey into the life of a ferociously dedicated loner, whose artwork in one way or another represents his noble rebellion, providing inspiration that is timeless.
Author : Serge Bramly
Release : 1995-03-01
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
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Book Rating : 757/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Leonardo by : Serge Bramly
Download or read book Leonardo written by Serge Bramly. This book was released on 1995-03-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A considerable work of assimilative scholarship and common sense...races along merrily."—The Boston Globe A lively biography of the high genius of the renaissance, Leonardo da Vinci French writer Serge Bramly's classic work of biography portrays Leonard da Vinci as a genius torn by inner conflicts. Using contemporary sources including Leonardo's notebooks and annotated erotic drawings, he presents a complete portrait of the man as well as his genius.
Author : Claire J. Farago
Release : 2009
Genre : Art
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Book Synopsis Re-reading Leonardo by : Claire J. Farago
Download or read book Re-reading Leonardo written by Claire J. Farago. This book was released on 2009. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examining the historical reception of Leonardo's Treatise on Painting in a cross-cultural framework, this collection represents the first attempt to chart the influence of the work, an important resource for the academic instruction of artists through four centuries and widely read by intellectuals and lovers of art for three centuries, when Leonardo's ideas and art were known almost exclusively through his book. The volume, dealing specifically with the reception and influence of the artist's ideas, takes Leonardo studies to a new level of historical inquiry.
