Leonardo Da Vinci

• Author : Barbara Witteman
• Publisher : Capstone
• Release : 16 May 2022

Discusses the life, works, and lasting influence of Leonardo da Vinci.

• Author : Michael Ladwein
• Publisher : Temple Lodge Publishing
• Release : 16 May 2022

Many great works of art have been created that we call "Christian," but none has received as much acclaim as Leonardo da Vinci's Last Supper. Art lovers venerate it for its composition and noble aesthetics, whereas, for Christians, it epitomizes the intimacy between Christ and his disciples. In recent years--following the publication of bestselling fictional narratives and dubious historical studies--The Last Supper has also become the focus of intrigue, controversy, speculation, and sensation. Recent restoration of the painting has exposed

• Author : Leonardo,Carlo Pedretti
• Publisher : Univ of California Press
• Release : 16 May 1977

• Author : Allison Lee Palmer
• Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
• Release : 15 December 2018

Leonardo da Vinci: A Reference Guide to His Life and Works covers his life and work, beginning with his paintings, including several he never completed, that form the core of his artistic oeuvre. The extensive A to Z section includes several hundred entries. The bibliography provides a comprehensive list of publications concerning his life and work.

• Author : Martin Kemp
• Publisher : Oxford University Press
• Release : 18 October 2007

This masterly account of Leonardo da Vinci and his vision of the world has long been recognized as the classic treatment of the Renaissance giant, offering unparalleled insight into Leonardo's intellect and vision at every stage of his artistic career. Martin Kemp, one of the world's leading authorities on Leonardo, takes us on a mesmerizing journey through the whole span of the great man's life, painting a fully integrated picture of his artistic, scientific, and technological achievements. Kemp shows how

• Author : Tamra B. Orr
• Publisher : Greenhaven Publishing LLC
• Release : 15 December 2018

The term "Renaissance man" is used to describe a number of talented individuals today, but it got its real start with Leonardo da Vinci. As an artist, inventor, and scholar, he produced everything from the Mona Lisa to drawings of the world's first airplanes. Through informative main text and sidebars, annotated quotes from scholars, and detailed examples of da Vinci's work, readers are introduced to a genius who never went to formal school but invented machines that would not be

• Author : Kathleen Tracy
• Publisher : Mitchell Lane
• Release : 05 December 2019

Inventor, artist, scientist . . . Leonardo da Vinci's wide-ranging inquisitiveness was the source of his greatest accomplishments and his lifelong financial difficulties, �he would get bored quickly and rarely finish his projects. As an artist, only seventeen of his finished works survive, and yet they include two of the most famous paintings in the world: The Last Supper and Mona Lisa. His scientific studies of human anatomy were centuries ahead of their time. And his designs for inventions, such as mechanical flight,

• Author : Kenneth Clark,Martin Kemp
• Publisher : Penguin UK
• Release : 26 November 2015

A personally compelling introduction to Leonardo's genius, a classic monograph of Leonardo's art and his development.

• Author : Diego Agrimbau,Diego Aballay
• Publisher : Raintree
• Release : 05 October 2017

• Author : Francis C. Moon
• Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
• Release : 30 May 2007

This fascinating book will be of as much interest to engineers as to art historians, examining as it does the evolution of machine design methodology from the Renaissance to the Age of Machines in the 19th century. It provides detailed analysis, comparing design concepts of engineers of the 15th century Renaissance and the 19th century age of machines from a workshop tradition to the rational scientific discipline used today.

• Author : François Quiviger
• Publisher : Reaktion Books
• Release : 10 June 2019

This incisive and illuminating biography follows the three themes that shaped the life of Leonardo da Vinci and, through him, forever changed Western art and imagination: nature, art, and self-fashioning. Nature and art helped form Leonardo. He spent his first twelve years in the Tuscan countryside before entering the most reputed artistic workshop of Florence. There he blossomed as one of the most promising painters of his time and promptly applied his skills to explore and question the world through

• Author : Sigmund Freud
• Publisher : Routledge
• Release : 13 May 2013

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

• Author : Nicholas Brasch
• Publisher : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
• Release : 15 July 2013

Leonardo da Vinci is remembered as a painter, an inventor, a scientist, an engineer, and an architect. This book examines his many contributions to the intellectual climate of the Renaissance in Italy while also tracing his legacy in inventions of the modern era, including the helicopter and military tank. Beautiful reproductions of his drawings and paintings accompany clear, engaging text, while sidebars offer additional context for curious readers.

• Author : Marwan Kahil,Ariel Vittori
• Publisher : NBM
• Release : 18 August 2020

This comics bio shows the process of Da Vinci's work and his inventions, his persecution as a gay man, and how the changing politics of his country and ebbs and flows of those in power affected him and his career. Complemented with background on his chronology, list of his oeuvres, etc.

• Author : M.C. Hall
• Publisher : ABDO
• Release : 01 August 2007

Discusses the life of the Italian artist Leonardo da Vinci.