Leonardo da Vinci : 1452-1519 /
Language: English Original language: German Series: Masters of Italian artPublication details: Köln : Könemann, ©1998.Description: 140 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 32 cmISBN:- 3829002513
- 9783829002516
- ND623.L5 H613 1998
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Book | Whitecliffe Library General Shelves | General | ND 623 LEO HOH (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 0004496 | ||
Book | Whitecliffe Library General Shelves | General | ND 623 LEO HOH (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 0004495 |
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.
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.