Lives Of Leonardo Da Vinci

Author : Giorgio Vasari
Publisher : Getty Publications
ISBN 13 : 1606066218
Total Pages : 170 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lives of Leonardo da Vinci written by Giorgio Vasari and published by Getty Publications. This book was released on 2019-10-29 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new title in the successful Lives of the Artists series, which offers illuminating, and often intimate, accounts of iconic artists as viewed by their contemporaries. Coinciding with the five hundredth anniversary of the death of Leonardo (1452–1519), Lives of Leonardo da Vinci brings together important early biographies of the polymath by Giorgio Vasari, Paolo Giovio, and anonymous authors. This illustrated volume also features recollections by the humanist scholar Sabba di Castiglione; Matteo Bandello’s eyewitness account of the artist creating one of his most famous works, The Last Supper; and letters written by a variety of contemporary authors, including Leonardo himself.

Author : Bandello VASARI
Publisher : Pallas Athene
ISBN 13 : 9781843681731
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lives of Leonardo written by Bandello VASARI and published by Pallas Athene. This book was released on 2019-11 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For many people the greatest artist, and the quintessential Renaissance man, Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) was a painter, architect, theatre designer, engineer, sculptor, anatomist, geometer, naturalist, poet and musician. His Last Supper in Milan has been called the greatest painting in Western art. Illegitimate, left-handed and homosexual, Leonardo never made a straightforward career. But from his earliest apprenticeship with the Florentine painter and sculptor Andrea Verrochio, his astonishing gifts were recognised. His life led him from Florence to militaristic Milan and back, to Rome and eventually to France, where he died in the arms of the King, Francis I. As one of the greatest exponents of painting of his time, Leonardo was celebrated by his fellow Florentine Vasari (who was nevertheless responsible for covering over the great fresco of the Battle of Anghiari with his own painting). Vasari's carefully researched life of Leonardo remains one of the main sources of our knowledge, and is printed here together with the three other early biographies, and the major account by his French editor Du Fresne. Personal reminiscences by the novelist Bandello, and humanist Saba di Castiglione, round out the picture, and for the first time the extremely revealing imagined dialogue between Leonardo and the Greek sculptor Phidias, by the painter and theorist Lomazzo, is published in English. An introduction by the scholar Charles Robertson places these writings and the career of Leonardo in context. Approximately 50 pages of colour illustrations, including the major paintings and many of the astonishing drawings, give a rich overview of Leonardo's work and mind.

Author : Mrs. Charles Heaton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 382 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Leonardo Da Vinci and His Works written by Mrs. Charles Heaton and published by . This book was released on 1874 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Giorgio Vasari
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781497849846
Total Pages : 90 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Life of Leonardo Da Vinci written by Giorgio Vasari and published by . This book was released on 2014-03 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Is A New Release Of The Original 1903 Edition.

Author : Mary Margaret Keymer Heaton
Publisher : London : Macmillan
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Leonardo Da Vinci and His Works, Consisting of a Life of Leonardo Da Vinci written by Mary Margaret Keymer Heaton and published by London : Macmillan. This book was released on 1874 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Pat McGreal
Publisher : Vertigo
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Chiaroscuro written by Pat McGreal and published by Vertigo. This book was released on 2005 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It looks at Leonardo from the view-point of his ne'er-do-well apprentice and servant Giacomo, known forever to history as Salai, whom Leonardo describes as "lying, thieving, gluttonous", but who none the less spends most of his life in a complex relationship with the Maestro. Along the way we encounter Machievelli, Cesare Borgia, Michelangelo, Katerina (a dwarf with a unique talent!) and the model for the painting Mona Lisa.

Author : Leonardo da Leonardo da Vinci
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781521933664
Total Pages : 113 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Thoughts on Art and Life written by Leonardo da Leonardo da Vinci and published by . This book was released on 2017-07-25 with total page 113 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How is this book unique? Font adjustments & biography included Unabridged (100% Original content) Illustrated About Thoughts on Art and Life by Leonardo da Vinci Thoughts On Art and Life by Leonardo Da Vinci is a fascinating collection of writings from the great polymath of the Italian Renaissaince, Leonardo da Vinci. There are sections covering the great man's thoughts on life, art and science. Maurice Baring trawled the available manuscripts to distil da Vinci's writings on these subjects into a single, accessible tome, which will be of interest to students of da Vinci, the Renaissance and the history of both art and science. Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci (1452-1519) was an Italian Renaissance polymath: painter, sculptor, architect, musician, scientist, mathematician, engineer, inventor, anatomist, geologist, cartographer, botanist, and writer. His genius, perhaps more than that of any other figure, epitomized the Renaissance humanist ideal.

Author : United Library
Publisher : United Library
ISBN 13 : 9789493261365
Total Pages : 74 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Leonardo Da Vinci written by United Library and published by United Library. This book was released on 2021-09-04 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Leonardo da Vinci was a Renaissance painter, sculptor, architect, inventor, military engineer and draftsman. Endowed with a curious mind and a brilliant intellect, da Vinci studied the laws of science and nature, which greatly influenced his work. His drawings, paintings and other works have influenced countless artists and engineers over the centuries. "I have been impressed by the urgency of doing. It is not enough to know, you have to apply. It is not enough to want, you have to do" - Leonardo da Vinci This is the descriptive and concise biography of Leonardo Da Vinci.

Author : Leonardo (da Vinci)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Thoughts on Art and Life written by Leonardo (da Vinci) and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Mike Lankford
Publisher : Melville House
ISBN 13 : 1612197159
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Becoming Leonardo written by Mike Lankford and published by Melville House. This book was released on 2018-04-03 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Wall Street Journal Book of the Year A Spectator Book of the Year “A truly intimate portrait of one of the greatest creators in human history,” this biography of Leonardo Da Vinci “has the pace, elegance, and authorial omnipresence of a novel,” bringing both artist and Renaissance Italy to life (Noah Charney, author of The Art of Forgery) Why did Leonardo Da Vinci leave so many of his major works uncompleted? Why did this resolute pacifist build war machines for the notorious Borgias? Why did he carry the Mona Lisa with him everywhere he went for decades, yet never quite finish it? Why did he write backwards, and was he really at war with Michelangelo? And was he gay? In a book unlike anything ever written about the Renaissance genius, Mike Lankford explodes every cliché about Da Vinci and then reconstructs him based on a rich trove of available evidence—bringing to life for the modern reader the man who has been studied by scholars for centuries—yet has remained as mysterious as ever. Seeking to envision Da Vinci without the obscuring residue of historical varnish, the sights, sounds, smells, and feel of Renaissance Italy—usually missing in other biographies—are all here, transporting readers back to a world of war and plague and court intrigue, of viciously competitive famous artists, of murderous tyrants with exquisite tastes in art . . . Lankford brilliantly captures Da Vinci’s life as the compelling and dangerous adventure it seems to have actually been—fleeing from one sanctuary to the next, somehow surviving in war zones beside his friend Machiavelli, struggling to make art his way or no way at all . . . and often paying dearly for those decisions. It is a thrilling and absorbing journey into the life of a ferociously dedicated loner, whose artwork in one way or another represents his noble rebellion, providing inspiration that is timeless.