Introduces Leonardo da Vinci, one of the best-known artists and thinkers of the Renaissance, who was one of the first artists in Italy to experiment with oil paint and whose sketches include designs for a robot, a bicycle, and a helicopter.
From the drawing of the stalk of a lily with a head of flowers, to the well-known "The Proportions of the Human Figure," this volume presents several works culled from the hundreds of drawings that flowed from Leonardo da Vinci's ...
Supported by a range of illustrations, the author includes a number of little known works, and an investigation into the artist's notebooks. In this book, he demonstrates how Leonardo's beliefs; how his Promethean curiosity and his acute vi...
For five centuries, Leonardo da Vinci has stood alone as the quintessential Renaissance man--the incomparable artist, writer, thinker, and inventor who most powerfully transformed his world. In this dazzling new intimate biography, award-wi...
These art appreciation books have about 50 full-color illustrations each--many of them faithful reproductions of the artists' paintings. A brief biography accompanied an explanation of each artist's accomplishments.
This seminal book on the paintings of the great Renaissance master Leonardo da Vinci, first published by Abrams in 2000, has now been reissued in a compact, portable paperback format. As in the earlier volume, fresh photography and advanced...
Reproduces selected drawings by Leonardo and all the paintings known to be his in full or in part, with individual critical, stylistic, and biographical commentaries.
Leonardo da Vinci has become the definition of the "Rennaissance man." His accomplishments in painting and sculpture, music and mathematics, and engineering and architecture have endured for centuries. The Renaissance was a watershed for Eu...
This lavishly illustrated tome, compiled by renowned art historian Marani, offers close to 300 reproductions of the artists' works, including his masterpieces Mona Lisa, the Madonna of the Rocks, and the Last Supper.
Whether psychoanalysis can, in fact, add to our understanding of art has long been a source of contention among art historians and psychoanalysts. 'Leonardo, Psychoanalysis, and Art History' is the latest round of a lively intellectual deba...