Art historian Martin Kemp explores the social, religious, and political contexts from which several famous paintings and sculptures have emerged. He also discusses the roles of art museums, galleries, and art education programs.
This fascinating exploration of Leonardo's life and work identifies what it was that made him so unique and explains the phenomenon of one of the world's most celebrated artistic geniuses who, five hundred years on, still grips and inspires us. Martin Kemp offers us exceptional insights into the mind of this exemplary Renaissance man, and into the ...
In this illustrated book, Martin Kemp examines the major optically oriented examples of artistic theory and practice, from Brunelleschi's invention of perspective and its exploitation by Leonardo and Duerer to the beginnings of photography. In a discussion of colour theory, Kemp traces two main traditions of colour science - the Aristotelian ...
Leonardo's writings on painting - among the most remarkable from any era - were never edited by Leonardo himself into a single coherent book. In this anthology the authors have edited material not only from his so-called Treatise on Painting but also from his surviving manuscripts and from other primary sources, some of which were here translated ...
Everyone has the potential for genius, according to Michael J. Gelb. He's dedicated his life to helping others develop that potential with best selling audio programmes like MIND MAPPING and PUTTING YOUR CREATIVE GENIUS TO WORK, and his best selling HOW TO THINK LIKE LEONARDO DA VINCI book and workbook. The full expression of our unique genius ...
This masterly account of Leonardo da Vinci and his vision of the world is now widely recognized as the classic treatment of Leonardo's art, science, and thought, giving an unparalleled insight into the broadening and deepening of Leonardo's intellect and vision throughout his artistic career. Kemp, one of the world's leading authorities on ...
This book is an anthology of writings by Leonardo da Vinci, with a selection of documents relating to his career as an artist. This book is an invaluable reference work for art historians as well as for anyone interested in the mind and methods of one of the world's greatest creative geniuses.
This magnificently illustrated book accompanies the most ambitious exhibition in the Hayward Gallery's program for the year 2000. "Spectacular Bodies: The Art and Science of the Human Body from Leonardo da Vinci to Now" is a ground-breaking exhibition with the potential to be a visual, cultural, and academic revelation with profound impact. The ...
Martin Kemp's provocative essays on the interplay between art and science have been entertaining readers of "Nature", the world's leading journal for the announcement of scientific discoveries, since 1997. These short, illustrated, highly regarded essays generally focus on one visual image from art or science and provide an evocative and erudite ...
From the lazy, fiddling grasshopper to the sneaky Big Bad Wolf, children's stories and fables enchant us with their portrayals of animals who act like people. But the comparisons run both ways, as metaphors, stories, and images - as well as scientific theories - throughout history remind us that humans often act like animals, and that the line ...
'Study me reader, if you find delight in me...Come, O men, to see the miracles that such studies will disclose in nature.' Most of what we know about Leonardo da Vinci, we know because of his notebooks. Some 6,000 sheets of notes and drawings survive, which represent perhaps one-fifth of what he actually produced. In them he recorded everything ...
Martin Kemp is the author of the widely acclaimed weekly pages "Art and Science" and "Science and Image" which have been appearing in Nature since 1997. In this visually stunning book, he brings together these fascinating articles discussing the interactions between the visual arts and science. A lively introduction describes Kemp's novel approach ...
Seduced is a provocative and ambitious survey of representations of sex across cultures from ancient times to the modern day, featuring such diverse work as Roman marbles. Japanese woodcuts, Indian manuscripts, Baroque paintings, nineteenth-century photographs and contemporary videos. This fascinating book reveals how art with a sexual content has ...
Seen | Unseen is a deep, richly illustrated, and erudite analysis of the interconnections between science and the visual arts. Martin Kemp explores the responses of artists, scientists, and their instruments, to the world - ranging from early representations of perspective, to pinhole cameras, particle accelerators and the Hubble telescope. From ...
A study of Renaissance art that employs modern methods of art interpretation. Since World War II, art historians have analyzed paintings and other art objects either independent of their history or as extensions of social and political situations of the time. Kemp's approach is, instead, to interpret works of art from the Italian Renaissance by ...
From early times, artists have been involved in the life and work of the physician in a variety of ways. Members of the medical professions have, in their turn, been central in shaping the visual canon of their profession, from the grandiose drama of the corpse anatomy theater to the intricately worked ivory and metal tools of their trade. "The ...
The Gubbio studiolo, a small private study that is a masterpiece of Italian Renaissance intarsia, was reinstalled in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 1996. This two-volume publication presents an indepth discussion of this famous work of art.
Here, the world's leading authority on Leonardo da Vinci takes us to the heart of the Renaissance master's genius - his visual thinking. Probing the mystery of how da Vinci thought graphically, on paper, Martin Kemp traces not only his approach to modeling but also fascinating efforts by modern engineering to build his inventions. Could these ...
An examination of the altarpiece as an artistic type or genre within the period 1400-1600 which coincides with a general reassessment of Renaissance art. Half of the essays in this volume relate to Italy, the rest address Dutch German and Spanish altarpieces.
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