TY - BOOK AU - Hohenstatt,Peter AU - Leonardo, TI - Leonardo da Vinci: 1452-1519 T2 - Masters of Italian art SN - 3829002513 AV - ND623.L5 H613 1998 PY - 1998/// CY - Köln PB - Könemann KW - Leonardo, KW - Painting KW - 15th century KW - Italy KW - 16th century KW - Drawing KW - Sculpture KW - Renaissance KW - History N1 - Translation from the German: Fiona Hulse; Includes bibliographical references (page 139); Leonardo da Vinci : The making of a legend -- Inset: The uomo universale : The dream of mankind -- Beginnings in the Florence of the Medicis 1469-1481 -- Inset: The discovery of central perspective -- Breakthrough in the Milan of the Sforzas 1482-1499 -- Inset: The process of casting in bronze -- Commissions in the Republic of Florence 1500-1506 -- Inset: Leonardo the engineer -- Occupied Milan and the Rome of Pope Leo X 1506-1516/17 -- Inset: Deceptive imitation of nature and spatial sight -- The final years in Amboise 1517-1519 -- Painting becomes a science N2 - Text and plentiful color illustrations examine the lifelong work of fifteenth- and sixteenth-century Italian painter, sculptor, architect, engineer, and natural scientist Leonardo da Vinci; also includes a glossary, a chronology, and a selected bibliography ER -