A compilation of da Vinci's most fascinating studies, this monumental volume demystifies his insights and clearly illustrates his ideas, experiments, and observations with hundreds of his original sketches, line drawings, and paintings.
Volume 1 of 2-volume set. Total of 1,566 extracts includes writings on painting, sculpture, architecture, anatomy, mining, inventions, music. Dual Italian-English texts, with 186 plates plus over 500 additional drawings.
A representative selection of Leonardo's various achievements: drawings of plants, landscapes, human face and figure, and more, as well as studies for "The Last Supper" and more. 60 illustrations.
This selection reveals a true Renaissance man, whose habit of rigorous enquiry, observation, and experiment, grounded in a philosophic system, led him to conceive of the universe as an organized cosmos corresponding to a work of art.
Volume 1 of 2-volume set. Total of 1,566 extracts includes writings on painting, sculpture, architecture, anatomy, mining, inventions, music. Dual Italian-English texts, with 186 plates plus over 500 additional drawings.
For everyone who has read Dan Brown's The Da Vinci Code, here is an exceptional insight into da Vinci's inner world, in his own words and images --a dazzling array of invention and observation from perhaps the greatest genius of Western civilization.
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.
The much overused word genius aptly describes only a few people in the history of civilisation. Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) unquestionably belongs in this elite group. Anyone who has looked in amazement at the "Mona Lisa", "The Last Supper", or the many drawings that sprang from his fertile imagination may wonder how he accomplished these ...
This famous fresco by Leonardo da Vinci was painted on the wall of the Santa Maria delle Grazie in Milan, Italy. A beautiful reproduction of the memorable Italian Renaissance painting is presented and described in this attractive miniature book, which does double duty as a framed picture! The front cover shows the painting in a faithful, ...
The woman in Leonardo da Vinci's work gazes out from the canvas with a quiet serenity. But what lies behind the famous smile? Shrouded in mystery, the Mona Lisa has attracted more speculation and questioning than any other work of art ever created. This work provides an "aide memoire" of the world's most famous painting. The full-page colour ...
'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 ...
The first paperback edition of a collection of Leonardo da Vinci's drawings, first published by Cape in 1946, with a new edition in 1973, and including a new introduction by Martin Kemp.
Including CNE examples and hands-on exercises, this study guide for NetWare 5 addresses each course objective following the order approved by Novell Education. The accompanying CD-ROMs feature the interactive training system for the CNE and include a single client/server version of Netware 5.
These volumes represent each author's best and most famous writings. This finely crafted and affordable series offers the works of these world-renowned authors to a wider audience.
Here are clear reproductions of over 1,200 anatomical drawings by one of humanity's greatest geniuses -- still considered, nearly five centuries later, the finest ever rendered. 215 plates.
Fusing science and art, the magnificently detailed anatomical illustrations of da Vinci, Eustachius, Vesalius, Albinus, and da Cortona have provided unsurpassed appreciation and understanding of the human body. Here, in one awe-inspiring treasury, are their timeless renderings of muscles, skeletons, nervous systems, and much more. Over 130 ...
One of the world's greatest artists, Leonardo da Vinci left surprisingly few completed paintings, yet even his sketches were marvelous works of art. This full-color collection includes 24 of his finest creations in miniature, among them "Antique Warrior, Five Grotesque Heads, "and" Portrait of Lisa del Giocondo" (Mona Lisa).
For lovers of timeless classics, this series of beautifully packaged and affordably priced editions of world literature encompasses a variety of literary genres, including theater, novels, poems, and essays. Los lectores tomaran un gran placer en descubrir los clasicos con estas bellas y economicas ediciones de literatura famosa y universal. Esta ...
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