Leonardo Da Vinci

• Author : Barbara Witteman
• Publisher : Capstone
• Release : 27 January 2023

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

• Author : Leonardo,Carlo Pedretti
• Publisher : Univ of California Press
• Release : 27 January 1977

• Author : Michael Ladwein
• Publisher : Temple Lodge Publishing
• Release : 27 January 2023

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 : 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

A masterly account of the genius of Leonardo da Vinci and his vision of the world, generously illustrated throughout, presenting a fully integrated picture of Leonardo's art, science, and thought.

• 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 : Roberta Edwards,Who HQ
• Publisher : Penguin
• Release : 08 September 2005

Leonardo da Vinci was a gifted painter, talented musician, and dedicated scientist and inventor, designing flying machines, submarines, and even helicopters. Yet he had a hard time finishing things, a problem anyone can relate to. Only thirteen paintings are known to be his; as for the illustrated encyclopedia he intended to create, all that he left were thousands of disorganized notebook pages. Here is an accessible portrait of a fascinating man who lived at a fascinating time—Italy during the

• 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 : 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 : 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 : Justine Ciovacco
• Publisher : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
• Release : 15 December 2014

Young readers may have seen reproductions of Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa and even some of his inventions, but there was much more to his genius. Leonardo was also a scientist and a sculptor. He loved the outdoors. This biography allows young readers to get to know Leonardo from his youth in the Italian countryside and then witness how his work as an adult won over noblemen and royalty who paid him for his art. Readers will be introduced to

• 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 : Walter Isaacson
• Publisher : Simon and Schuster
• Release : 17 October 2017

The #1 New York Times bestseller "A powerful story of an exhilarating mind and life...a study in creativity: how to define it, how to achieve it." --The New Yorker "Vigorous, insightful." --The Washington Post "A masterpiece." --San Francisco Chronicle "Luminous." --The Daily Beast He was history's most creative genius. What secrets can he teach us? The author of the acclaimed bestsellers Steve Jobs, Einstein, and Benjamin Franklin brings Leonardo da Vinci to life in this exciting new biography. Based on

• Author : Richard Shaw Pooler
• Publisher : Vernon Press
• Release : 07 July 2014

This book traces the story of the world's greatest treatise on painting - Leonardo Da Vinci's "Treatise of Painting". It combines an extensive body of literature about the Treatise with original research to offer a unique perspective on: • Its origins, and history of how it survived the dispersal of manuscripts; • Its contents, their significance and how Leonardo developed his Renaissance Theory of Art; • The development of both the abridged and complete printed editions; • How the printed editions have influenced treatises