Leonardo's Writings and Theory of Art
Author: Claire J. Farago
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 488
ISBN-13: 9780815329367
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Author: Claire J. Farago
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 488
ISBN-13: 9780815329367
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAlso available as the fourth book in a 5 volume set (ISBN#0815329334)
Author: Leonardo da Vinci
Publisher: Library of Alexandria
Published: 2020-09-28
Total Pages: 1118
ISBN-13: 1465514147
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA 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. Vasari says, and rightly, in his Life of Leonardo, "that he laboured much more by his word than in fact or by deed", and the biographer evidently had in his mind the numerous works in Manuscript which have been preserved to this day. To us, now, it seems almost inexplicable that these valuable and interesting original texts should have remained so long unpublished, and indeed forgotten. It is certain that during the XVIth and XVIIth centuries their exceptional value was highly appreciated. This is proved not merely by the prices which they commanded, but also by the exceptional interest which has been attached to the change of ownership of merely a few pages of Manuscript. That, notwithstanding this eagerness to possess the Manuscripts, their contents remained a mystery, can only be accounted for by the many and great difficulties attending the task of deciphering them. The handwriting is so peculiar that it requires considerable practice to read even a few detached phrases, much more to solve with any certainty the numerous difficulties of alternative readings, and to master the sense as a connected whole. Vasari observes with reference to Leonardos writing: "he wrote backwards, in rude characters, and with the left hand, so that any one who is not practised in reading them, cannot understand them". The aid of a mirror in reading reversed handwriting appears to me available only for a first experimental reading. Speaking from my own experience, the persistent use of it is too fatiguing and inconvenient to be practically advisable, considering the enormous mass of Manuscripts to be deciphered. And as, after all, Leonardo's handwriting runs backwards just as all Oriental character runs backwards—that is to say from right to left—the difficulty of reading direct from the writing is not insuperable. This obvious peculiarity in the writing is not, however, by any means the only obstacle in the way of mastering the text. Leonardo made use of an orthography peculiar to himself; he had a fashion of amalgamating several short words into one long one, or, again, he would quite arbitrarily divide a long word into two separate halves; added to this there is no punctuation whatever to regulate the division and construction of the sentences, nor are there any accents—and the reader may imagine that such difficulties were almost sufficient to make the task seem a desperate one to a beginner. It is therefore not surprising that the good intentions of some of Leonardo s most reverent admirers should have failed.
Author: Martin Clayton
Publisher: Royal Collection Trust
Published: 2014
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781909741034
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Author: Martin Clayton
Publisher: Getty Publications
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 164
ISBN-13: 9781606060209
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLeonardo da Vinci was not only one of the leading artists of the Renaissance, he was also one of the greatest anatomists ever to have lived. He combined, to a unique degree, manual skill in dissection, analytical skill in understanding the structures he uncovered, and artistic skill in recording his results. His extraordinary campaign of dissection, conducted during the winter of 1510-11 and concentrating on the muscles and bones of the human skeleton, was recorded on the pages of a manuscript now in the Print Room of the Royal Library at Windsor Castle. These are arguably the finest anatomical drawings ever made and are extensively annotated in Leonardo's distinctive "mirror-writing", with explanations of the drawings, notes on related anatomical matters, memoranda and so on. This publication reproduces the entire manuscript, and for the first time translates all of Leonardo's copious notes on the page so that the unfolding of his thoughts may readily be followed.
Author: Laura Layton Strom
Publisher: Children's Press(CT)
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780531177716
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA short look at the life of a genius.
Author: Leonardo (da Vinci)
Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 802
ISBN-13: 1588390330
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis handsome book offers a unified and fascinating portrait of Leonardo as draftsman, integrating his roles as artist, scientist, inventor, theorist, and teacher. 250 illustrations.
Author: Leonardo da Vinci
Publisher: Lulu.com
Published: 2009-10-26
Total Pages: 152
ISBN-13: 0557163935
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction I. Thoughts on Life II. Thoughts on Art III. Thoughts on Science IV. Bibliographical Note
Author: Claire J. Farago
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 426
ISBN-13: 9780815329350
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Author: Claire Farago
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2018-01-29
Total Pages: 1371
ISBN-13: 900435378X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe basis for our understanding of Leonardo’s theory of art was, for over 150 years, his Treatise on Painting, which was issued in 1651 in Italian and French. This present volume offers both the first scholarly edition of the Italian editio princeps as well as the first complete English translation of this seminal work. In addition, It provides a comprehensive study of the Italian first edition, documenting how each editorial campaign that lead to it produced a different understanding of the artist’s theory. What emerges is a rich cultural and textual history that foregrounds the transmission of artisanal knowledge from Leonardo’s workshop in the Duchy of Milan to Carlo Borromeo’s Milan, Cosimo I de’ Medici’s Florence, Urban VIII’s Rome, and Louis XIV’s Paris.
Author: Paul Klee
Publisher:
Published: 1992
Total Pages: 606
ISBN-13:
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