Leonardos Swans

Author : Karen Essex
Publisher : Anchor
ISBN 13 : 0385517661
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Leonardo's Swans written by Karen Essex and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2006-01-10 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Isabelle d’Este, daughter of the Duke of Ferrara, born into privilege and the political and artistic turbulence of Renaissance Italy, is a stunning black-eyed blond and an art lover and collector. Worldly and ambitious, she has never envied her less attractive sister, the spirited but naïve Beatrice, until, by a quirk of fate, Beatrice is betrothed to the future Duke of Milan. Although he is more than twice their age, openly lives with his mistress, and is reputedly trying to eliminate the current duke by nefarious means, Ludovico Sforza is Isabella’s match in intellect and passion for all things of beauty. Only he would allow her to fulfill her destiny: to reign over one of the world’s most powerful and enlightened realms and be immortalized in oil by the genius Leonardo da Vinci. Isabella vows that she will not rest until she wins her true fate, and the two sisters compete for supremacy in the illustrious courts of Europe. A haunting novel of rivalry, love, and betrayal that transports you back to Renaissance Italy, Leonardo’s Swans will have you dashing to the works of the great master—not for clues to a mystery but to contemplate the secrets of the human heart.

Author : Karen Essex
Publisher : Random House Large Print Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780739325780
Total Pages : 638 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Leonardo's Swans written by Karen Essex and published by Random House Large Print Publishing. This book was released on 2006 with total page 638 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Born into wealth amid the political and artistic foment of the Italian Renaissance, worldly and ambitious Isabella and nacandrave Beatrice Este, sisters and rivals, compete for the attentions of Ludovico Sforza, the Duke of Milan--even though he marries Beatrice--and must choose between family loyalty and survival amid the treachery of a dangerous era.

Author : Karen Essex
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780857573735
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.3X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Leonardo's Swans written by Karen Essex and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Karen Essex
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Leonardo's Swans (Talking Book) written by Karen Essex and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : François Quiviger
Publisher : Reaktion Books
ISBN 13 : 1789141079
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Leonardo da Vinci written by François Quiviger and published by Reaktion Books. This book was released on 2019-06-10 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 science and invention. Leonardo was also self-fashioned: he received only a basic education and grew up around peasants and artisans. But from the 1480s onwards, he transformed himself into a court artist and became a familiar of kings and rulers. Following the chronology of Leonardo’s extraordinary life, this book examines Leonardo as artist, courtier, and thinker, and explores how these aspects found expression in his paintings, as well as in his work in sculpture, architecture, theater design, urban planning, engineering, anatomy, geology, and cartography. François Quiviger concludes with observations on Leonardo’s relevance today as a model of the multidisciplinary artist who combines imagination, art, and science—the original, and ultimate, Renaissance Man.

Author : Karen Essex
Publisher : Anchor
ISBN 13 : 076793122X
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dracula in Love written by Karen Essex and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2011-07-05 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: London, 1890. Mina Murray Harker, the rosy-cheeked, quintessentially pure Victorian heroine, becomes Count Dracula’s object of desire. To preserve her chastity, five male “defenders” rush in to rescue her from the vampire’s evil clutches. This is the story we have been told. But now, from Mina’s own pen, we discover a tale more sensual, more devious, and more enthralling than the Victorians could have ever imagined. From the shadowy banks of the river Thames to the wild and windswept Yorkshire coast, Mina vividly recounts the intimate details of what really transpired between her and the Count—the joys and terrors of a passionate affair, as well as her rebellion against her own frightening preternatural powers.

Author : Dmitry Sergeyevich Merezhkovsky
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 664 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Romance of Leonardo Da Vinci written by Dmitry Sergeyevich Merezhkovsky and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 664 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Karen Essex
Publisher : Anchor
ISBN 13 : 0385526709
Total Pages : 466 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Stealing Athena written by Karen Essex and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2008-06-17 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stealing Athena is the story of two women, separated by centuries but united by their association with some of the world's greatest and most controversial works of art. Aspasia, a philosopher and courtesan to visionary politician Pericles during Athens's Golden Age, defies societal restrictions to become fiercely influential in Athens' power circle. Mary, the Countess of Elgin and a beautiful Scottish heiress, charms the fearsome men of the Ottoman Empire to make possible her husband's costly acquisitions, all the while brazenly defying the social conventions of her time. Both women prevail yet pay a heavy price for their rebellion. A tale of romance, intrigue, greed, and glory, Stealing Athena interweaves the lives of two of history's most beguiling heroines.

Author : Dmitry Sergeyevich Merezhkovsky
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 452 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Romance of Leonardo Da Vinci written by Dmitry Sergeyevich Merezhkovsky and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Carlo Maria Franzero
Publisher : W H Allen
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Leonardo written by Carlo Maria Franzero and published by W H Allen. This book was released on 1969 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: