The Notebooks Of Leonardo Da Vinci (definitive Edition In One Volume)

Leonardo Da Vinci (Edited By Edward MacCurdy)

ISBN 10: 156852448X / ISBN 13: 9781568524481

Edité par Konecky & Konecky N.D., Old Saybrook, CT, 2002

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6 1/2 x 9 1/4 x 2"; 1180 pages; Hard cover is red with gold lettering on spine. NEW. DJ. 'A singular fatality has ruled the destiny of nearly all the most famous of Leonardo da Vinci's works. Two of the three most important were never completed, obstacles having arisen during his life-time, which obliged him to leave them unfinished; namely the Sforza Monument and the Wall-painting of the Battle of Anghiari, while the third the picture of the Last Supper at Milan has suffered irremediable injury from decay and the repeated restorations to which it was recklessly subjected during the XVIIth and XVIIIth centuries. Nevertheless, no other picture of the Renaissance has become so wellknown and popular through copies of every description. ' Oversized/4#.

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: The Notebooks Of Leonardo Da Vinci (definitive Edition In One Volume)
• Éditeur: Konecky & Konecky N.D., Old Saybrook, CT
• Date de parution: 2002
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 156852448X
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9781568524481
• Reliure: Hardcover
• État de l'article: New
• État de la jaquette: New
• Catalogues du vendeur:
  • Geography
  • Art:: Artists
  • Government/Economics/Law/Politics
  • Education
  • Reference
  • Social History
  • Business/Economics
  • Cultural History
  • European History
  • History
  • Military History

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Synopsis

Book by Leonardo Da Vinci

Présentation de l'éditeur

A lot of ink has been spilled covering the lives of history’s most influential figures, but how much of the forest is lost for the trees? When historians are asked to pick a point in history when Western civilization was transformed and guided down the path to modernity, most of them point to the Renaissance. Indeed, the Renaissance revolutionized art, philosophy, religion, sciences and math, with individuals like Galileo, Leonardo, Michelangelo, Raphael, Dante, and Petrarch bridging the past and modern society. The Renaissance also spawned the use of the label “Renaissance Man” to describe a person who is extremely talented in multiple fields, and no discussion of the Renaissance is complete without the original “Renaissance Man”, Leonardo da Vinci. Indeed, if 100 people are asked to describe Leonardo in one word, they might give 100 answers. As the world’s most famous polymath and genius, Leonardo found time to be a painter, sculptor, architect, musician, scientist, mathematician, engineer, inventor, anatomist, geologist, cartographer, botanist, and writer. It would be hard to determine which field Leonardo had the greatest influence in. His “Mona Lisa” and “The Last Supper” are among the most famous paintings of all time, standing up against even Michelangelo’s work. But even if he was not the age’s greatest artist, Leonardo may have conducted his most influential work was done in other fields. His emphasis on the importance of Nature would influence Enlightened philosophers centuries later, and he sketched speculative designs for gadgets like helicopters that would take another 4 centuries to create. Leonardo’s vision and philosophy were made possible by his astounding work as a mathematician, engineer and scientist. At a time when much of science was dictated by Church teachings, Leonardo studied geology and anatomy long before they truly even became scientific fields, and he used his incredible artistic abilities to sketch the famous Vitruvian Man, linking art and science together. Leonardo also conducted scientific experiments using empirical methods nearly 150 years before Rene Descartes’ “Discourse on Method.” As Leonardo explained in his writings, “Many will think they may reasonably blame me by alleging that my proofs are opposed to the authority of certain men held in the highest reverence by their inexperienced judgments; not considering that my works are the issue of pure and simple experience, who is the one true mistress.”