This study looks at Leonardo's beginnings as an artist from his years in the Florentine workshop of sculptor, Andrea del Verrocchio, to his first paintings. The author scrutinizes Leonardo's works and brings them into relation to each other and to their sources.
This XXL-format comprehensive survey is the most complete book ever made on the subject of this Italian painter, sculptor, architect, engineer, scientist and all-around genius. With huge, full-bleed details of Leonardo's masterworks, this highly original publication allows the reader to inspect the subtlest facets of his brushstrokes.
Why, after the death of Leonardo da Vinci, did writers as diverse as Goethe, Valery, and Freud offer such passionate but differing interpretations of him? Turner plays off the facts of the artist's life (as we know them today) and shows how the cultural values and historical circumstances of each writer contributed to his understanding of Leonardo ...
This book features a literary introduction and thoroughly researched essay followed by a section devoted to a detailed description of a selection of the artist's masterpieces. An extensive chronology of the artist's life and important historical events of his era as well as a compilation of remarks by famous historians, modern and old, add ...
Leonardo da Vinci--painter, engineer, inventory, mathematician, and architect--he was a Renaissance man in the fullest sense. Over 150 color illustrations--some well known, some obscure--offer glimpses into the inner world of the man who was four centuries ahead of his time.
Whether psychoanalysis can, in fact, add to our understanding of art has long been a source of contention among art historicans and psychoanalysts. This volume is the most recent round of a lively intellectual debate that has taken place between the two disciplines over the decades. Using Freud's "Leonardo da Vinci and a memory of his childhood" ...
Investigates the artist's background and the times he lived in; his influence on the world of art; and his astounding explorations in science and technology.
As he examines the changing views of Leonardo since the sixteenth century, A. Richard Turner both gives the reader a cultural history in brief of western Europe during this period and provides a context for examining Leonardo's relevance to our own ways of perceiving and interpreting the world.
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