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Da Vinci Notebooks
A dazzling array of invention, insight and observation from perhaps the greatest genius of Western civilisation. Towering across time as the painter of the Mona Lisa, forever famous as a sculptor and an inventor, Leonardo da Vinci was one of the greatest minds of both the Italian Renaissance and Western civilisation. His celebrated notebooks display the astonishing range of his genius. Dan Brow…
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A Treatise on Painting
This classic book contains John Francis Rigaud's translation of Leonardo da Vinci's 'A Treatise on Painting'. It is not so much a guide to painting, although he has thrown in the odd piece of good advice, but is more a collection of his thoughts and an insight into what was the inspiration behind his paintings. This book is highly recommended for inclusion on the bookshelf of any fan of this gr…
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A Treatise on Painting (Illustrated)
The excellence of the following Treatise is so well known to all in any tolerable degree conversant with the Art of Painting, that it would be almost superfluous to say any thing respecting it, were it not that it here appears under the form of a new translation, of which some account may be expected. Of the original Work, which is in reality a selection from the voluminous manuscript collectio…
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A Treatise on Painting (Illustrated)
The excellence of the following Treatise is so well known to all in any tolerable degree conversant with the Art of Painting, that it would be almost superfluous to say any thing respecting it, were it not that it here appears under the form of a new translation, of which some account may be expected. Of the original Work, which is in reality a selection from the voluminous manuscript collectio…
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Favole
Letteratura "geniale". Leonardo da Vinci è un genio riconosciuto: la sua originalità ha saputo aprirsi ai campi più diversi, ottenendo sempre dei risultati eccezionali. Non ultima, in un ipotetico elenco di genialità, si colloca la sua produzione letteraria e le Favole sono da considerarsi il maggior sforzo stilistico dell'autore. I frammenti leonardiani sono l'elaborazione dei modelli favo…
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A Treatise on Painting
Leonardo da Vinci's written observations about painting rank among the most remarkable from any era. Never edited by the author himself into a single coherent book, these writings were compiled many years after Leonardo's death into the principal repository of his practical thoughts on the techniques of drawing and painting. A Treatise on Painting begins with precise instructions on drawing the…
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Leonardo's Anatomical Drawings
"It is a miracle that any one man should have observed, read, and written down so much in a single lifetime." Kenneth Clark, art historian and Leonardo da Vinci biographer A perfectionist in his artwork, Leonardo da Vinci studied nature and anatomy to produce amazingly realistic paintings. Using scientific methods in his investigations of the human body the first ever by an artist he was abl…
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Leonardo on the Human Body
"It is a miracle that any one man should have observed, read, and written down so much in a single lifetime." Kenneth Clark Painter, sculptor, musician, scientist, architect, engineer, inventor . . . perhaps no other figure so fully embodies the Western Ideal of "Renaissance man" as Leonardo da Vinci. Leonardo was not content, however, to master an artistic technique or record the mechanics of…
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Leonardo on Art and the Artist
Here is a complete picture of the techniques and working philosophy of one of the greatest artistic geniuses of the Renaissance. Assembled by a brilliant scholar from Leonardo's own writings--Notebooks and The Treatise on Painting--as well as his artistic production, the book offers a carefully balanced view of the artist's intellectual growth. Drawing on all the relevant writings, and rectifyi…
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Leonardo Drawings
Although Leonardo da Vinci was one of the greatest artists who ever lived, his career was marked by an unusually large number of uncompleted projects and by finished works that rapidly deteriorated. Nevertheless, his influence is undoubted, and his claim to greatness rests chiefly on his drawings, which have been carefully preserved in such locations as Windsor Castle, the Louvre, the Uffizi Ga…
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