An Overview Of Leonardo S Career And Projects Until C 1500


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An Overview Of Leonardo S Career And Projects Until C 1500


An Overview Of Leonardo S Career And Projects Until C 1500
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Author : Claire J. Farago
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 1999

An Overview Of Leonardo S Career And Projects Until C 1500 written by Claire J. Farago and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with Art categories.


Also available as the second book in a five volume set (ISBN#0815329334)



More Than 2 Leonardo In Anti Theory


More Than 2 Leonardo In Anti Theory
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Author : Susan Audrey Grundy
language : en
Publisher: Susan Grundy
Release Date : 2023-08-22

More Than 2 Leonardo In Anti Theory written by Susan Audrey Grundy and has been published by Susan Grundy this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-08-22 with Art categories.


More Than (2) Leonardo in Anti-Theory recovers documented evidence there were two Leonardos, one born in Tuscany, who left Florence in 1478 never to return, and another born in the East, who only arrived in Italy in 1478. From Caffa in the Crimea to the coasts of the west Americas, you might think these places have nothing to do with the Italian genius. However, South African art historian Susan Grundy offers a trove of unusual and arcanely brilliant alternative ideas about the mysterious Renaissance polymath painter, found in what she calls Leonardo anti-theory. In a narrative full of twists and turns, arguments and counter arguments, readers will be transfixed from beginning to end. Following previous research, Grundy provides further information and insights into “Leonardo’s” alchemist, the marginalised anatomist and explorer, Zoroastro Masino. Significantly, the author uses anti-theory to demonstrate the paintings and the Notebooks usually attributed to one “Leonardo da Vinci,” were alternatively produced by a number of artists and scientists. Also significant, this post-colonial, gender study is about the sons and daughters of slaves, immigrants, and interlopers. It is an Italian story, but also a global one. Ultimately, Grundy shows all Leonardo anti-theory is (a little bit or a lot) right; while all mainstream rhetoric is (mostly a lot) wrong. The author introduces the neglected masters, and even a mistress, in the workshops of Milan, Florence, and Rome.



Leonardo S Salvator Mundi And The Collecting Of Leonardo In The Stuart Courts


Leonardo S Salvator Mundi And The Collecting Of Leonardo In The Stuart Courts
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Author : Martin Kemp
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2019-11-19

Leonardo S Salvator Mundi And The Collecting Of Leonardo In The Stuart Courts written by Martin Kemp and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-11-19 with History categories.


The Salvator Mundi is the first Leonardo painting to be discovered for over a century. Following its re-emergence, it played a leading role in the landmark Leonardo exhibition at the National Gallery in London in 2011, after which it was purchased by a Russian oligarch. In 2017 it was auctioned by Christie's in New York, fetching the world record price of $450m, and now forms part of the collection of Louvre Abu Dhabi. The Salvator Mundi may be seen as the devotional counterpart to the Mona Lisa, having an extraordinary, communicative presence. The artist has reformed the very traditional subject matter in a number of ways. The elusiveness of Christ's expression suggests his spiritual origins beyond the world of the senses. The traditional sphere of the earth has been transformed into a rock-crystal orb and signifies a crystalline sphere of the heavens. In addition to its spiritual dimension, the image exploits Leonardo's optical knowledge and his growing sense of the illusiveness of seeing. Only the blessing hand is in reasonably sharp focus, with his features softly veiled. The scintillating curls of his hair are characterised in line with his theory that the physics of the curling of hair is analogous to vortex motion in water. This book looks at evidence of Leonardo's Salvator Mundi in the collections of Charles I and Charles II. It explores the appraisal of works by Leonardo at the Stuart courts, and proposes that how works attributed to Leonardo were first encountered and understood in seventeenth-century Britain would shape the wider evolution of Leonardo as a cultural icon. This volume gives a dramatic first-hand account of the modern-day discovery of the painting, from its purchase in a minor New Orleans auction house, to the cleaning of the picture that would disclose it as Leonardo's startling original, and the research processes that would uncover illustrious and obscure former owners. The book presents the definitive study of the new masterpiece.



Da Vinci S Ghost


Da Vinci S Ghost
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Author : Toby Lester
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2012-10-30

Da Vinci S Ghost written by Toby Lester and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-10-30 with Art categories.


Discusses the intellectual journey behind the creation of Leonardo da Vinci's Vitruvian Man and describes how the drawing represents a momentous period in Western history when the Middle Ages gave way to the Renaissance.



Young Leonardo


Young Leonardo
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Author : Jean-Pierre Isbouts
language : en
Publisher: Macmillan
Release Date : 2017-05-23

Young Leonardo written by Jean-Pierre Isbouts and has been published by Macmillan this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-05-23 with Art categories.


Provocative and original, this fresh look at Leonardo da Vinci’s formative years in Florence and Milan provides a radically different scenario of how he created his signature style that would transform Western art forever. The traditional view of Leonardo da Vinci’s career is that he enjoyed a promising start in Florence and then moved to Milan to become the celebrated court artist of Duke Ludovico Sforza. Young Leonardo presents a very different view. It reveals how the young Leonardo struggled against the prevailing style of his master Verrocchio, was stymied in his efforts to produce his first masterpiece in Florence, and left for Milan on little more than a wing and a prayer. Once there, he was long ignored by Duke Ludovico, and enjoyed only tepid Sforza support after his great equestrian project came to nothing. Meanwhile, all the major Sforza commissions went to artists whose names are now forgotten. Isbouts and Brown depict Leonardo’s seminal years in Milan from an entirely new perspective: that of the Sforza court. They show that much of the Sforza patronage was directed on vast projects, such as the Milan Cathedral, favoring a close circle of local artists to which Leonardo never gained entry. As a result, his exceptional talent remained largely unrecognized right up to the Last Supper. The authors also explore a mysterious link between the Last Supper and the fresco of the Crucifixion on the opposite wall, a work that up to now has fully escaped public attention. Finally, they present a sensational theory: that two long-ignored, life-sized copies of the Last Supper, now in Belgium and the U.K., were actually commissioned by the French King Louis XII and painted under Leonardo’s direct supervision. Young Leonardo is a fascinating window into the artist’s mind as he slowly develops the groundbreaking techniques that will produce the High Renaissance and change the course of European art.



Leonardo Da Vinci


Leonardo Da Vinci
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Author : Walter Isaacson
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2017-10-17

Leonardo Da Vinci written by Walter Isaacson and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-10-17 with Biography & Autobiography categories.


The #1 New York Times bestseller from Walter Isaacson brings Leonardo da Vinci to life in this exciting new biography that is “a study in creativity: how to define it, how to achieve it…Most important, it is a powerful story of an exhilarating mind and life” (The New Yorker). Based on thousands of pages from Leonardo da Vinci’s astonishing notebooks and new discoveries about his life and work, Walter Isaacson “deftly reveals an intimate Leonardo” (San Francisco Chronicle) in a narrative that connects his art to his science. He shows how Leonardo’s genius was based on skills we can improve in ourselves, such as passionate curiosity, careful observation, and an imagination so playful that it flirted with fantasy. He produced the two most famous paintings in history, The Last Supper and the Mona Lisa. With a passion that sometimes became obsessive, he pursued innovative studies of anatomy, fossils, birds, the heart, flying machines, botany, geology, and weaponry. He explored the math of optics, showed how light rays strike the cornea, and produced illusions of changing perspectives in The Last Supper. His ability to stand at the crossroads of the humanities and the sciences, made iconic by his drawing of Vitruvian Man, made him history’s most creative genius. In the “luminous” (Daily Beast) Leonardo da Vinci, Isaacson describes how Leonardo’s delight at combining diverse passions remains the ultimate recipe for creativity. So, too, does his ease at being a bit of a misfit: illegitimate, gay, vegetarian, left-handed, easily distracted, and at times heretical. His life should remind us of the importance to be imaginative and, like talented rebels in any era, to think different. Here, da Vinci “comes to life in all his remarkable brilliance and oddity in Walter Isaacson’s ambitious new biography…a vigorous, insightful portrait” (The Washington Post).



The Lady Speaks


The Lady Speaks
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Author : W.N. Varvel
language : en
Publisher: BrownBooks.ORM
Release Date : 2014-02-13

The Lady Speaks written by W.N. Varvel and has been published by BrownBooks.ORM this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-02-13 with Art categories.


This thoroughly original work of art history presents a provocative theory about Leonardo da Vinci, the Mona Lisa, and Theological Gender Equality. The famous Mona Lisa smile has mystified viewers and intrigued historians for centuries. Completed in 1515, Leonardo da Vinci’s masterwork has hidden the lady’s secret well. Now, after years of research and analysis, W. N. Varvel has decoded the hidden meanings of Mona Lisa. In The Lady Speaks, Varnel reveals the vital message her smile conveys: a secret too dangerous for the artist to acknowledge during his life but one which he hoped future generations would understand and embrace. The coming of the “New Jerusalem” depends on the world’s recognizing what lies behind the Mona Lisa smile. Detailing how the artist wove a calculated fabric of clues, symbols, and images, Varvel establishes not only da Vinci’s, but also Michelangelo’s, belief in Theological Gender Equality. In a thrilling achievement of art history detective work, Varvel tracks clues, links previously unnoticed connections, recreates scenarios, identifies villains and heroes, and presents a persuasive case for what the lady must be thinking.



Re Reading Leonardo


Re Reading Leonardo
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Author : Claire Farago
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2017-07-05

Re Reading Leonardo written by Claire Farago and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-07-05 with Art categories.


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?



Leonardo S Legacy


Leonardo S Legacy
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Author : Stefan Klein
language : en
Publisher: Da Capo Press
Release Date : 2010-04-27

Leonardo S Legacy written by Stefan Klein and has been published by Da Capo Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-04-27 with History categories.


Revered today as, perhaps, the greatest of Renaissance painters, Leonardo da Vinci was a scientist at heart. The artist who created the Mona Lisa also designed functioning robots and digital computers, constructed flying machines and built the first heart valve. His intuitive and ingenious approach—a new mode of thinking—linked highly diverse areas of inquiry in startling new ways and ushered in a new era. In Leonardo's Legacy, award-winning science journalist Stefan Klein deciphers the forgotten legacy of this universal genius and persuasively demonstrates that today we have much to learn from Leonardo's way of thinking. Klein sheds light on the mystery behind Leonardo's paintings, takes us through the many facets of his fascination with water, and explains the true significance of his dream of flying. It is a unique glimpse into the complex and brilliant mind of this inventor, scientist, and pioneer of a new world view, with profound consequences for our times.



Animals As Disguised Symbols In Renaissance Art


Animals As Disguised Symbols In Renaissance Art
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Author : Simona Cohen
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2008-09-30

Animals As Disguised Symbols In Renaissance Art written by Simona Cohen and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-09-30 with History categories.


The tenacity of medieval animal iconography in the Renaissance, disguised under the veil of genre, narrative and allegory, is demonstrated in this book. A comprehensive introduction to sources precedes case studies illustrating traditional animal symbolism in Renaissance masterpieces.