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Author: Pamela Shields Publisher: ISBN: 9781542724418 Category : Languages : en Pages : 154
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This book was written to commemorate the 500th anniversary of Leonardo da Vinci's death in 1519 at Clos Luc�, Amboise, France. This is where he and his painting of the Mona Lisa spent his last three years. Leonardo's life began with his illegitimacy in Florence, fame and success in Milan, public humiliation in Rome and ended as the close friend of the most powerful king in Europe. When Fran�ois I met Leonardo in Italy in 1515, he invited him to live near him in Amboise. Here, Leonardo found a security incomparable with his previously precarious existence. He entered old age basking in the gentle climate of the Loire Valley with no more financial insecurity, no more wars on his doorstep, no more jealous rivals. No longer forced to take commissions, Leonardo spent his days editing notebooks filled with his scientific studies and treatises on painting and anatomy. He had with him his paintings of The Virgin and Child with St. Anne, St. John the Baptist and the Mona Lisa. Leonardo was a tourist attraction. He still is. Fans can see where he lived, where he died and where he is buried. In Close Luc�, they can even see working models of some of his visions. The book contains many interesting, little known facts. For example. Did you know that Leonardo designed and made elaborate wigs for his models as seen in his (lost) painting of Leda and the Swan? That he dissected thirty corpses? Or that to dissect an eye ball he first immersed it in egg white then boiled it? When Fran�ois I decided to move his capital from Paris to Romorantin, his childhood home, he asked Leonardo to design a new town to include two new ch�teaux, one for himself and one for his mother. The plans for his mother's ch�teau is now part of the Royal Collection in Windsor Castle in England.
Author: Pamela Shields Publisher: ISBN: 9781542724418 Category : Languages : en Pages : 154
Book Description
This book was written to commemorate the 500th anniversary of Leonardo da Vinci's death in 1519 at Clos Luc�, Amboise, France. This is where he and his painting of the Mona Lisa spent his last three years. Leonardo's life began with his illegitimacy in Florence, fame and success in Milan, public humiliation in Rome and ended as the close friend of the most powerful king in Europe. When Fran�ois I met Leonardo in Italy in 1515, he invited him to live near him in Amboise. Here, Leonardo found a security incomparable with his previously precarious existence. He entered old age basking in the gentle climate of the Loire Valley with no more financial insecurity, no more wars on his doorstep, no more jealous rivals. No longer forced to take commissions, Leonardo spent his days editing notebooks filled with his scientific studies and treatises on painting and anatomy. He had with him his paintings of The Virgin and Child with St. Anne, St. John the Baptist and the Mona Lisa. Leonardo was a tourist attraction. He still is. Fans can see where he lived, where he died and where he is buried. In Close Luc�, they can even see working models of some of his visions. The book contains many interesting, little known facts. For example. Did you know that Leonardo designed and made elaborate wigs for his models as seen in his (lost) painting of Leda and the Swan? That he dissected thirty corpses? Or that to dissect an eye ball he first immersed it in egg white then boiled it? When Fran�ois I decided to move his capital from Paris to Romorantin, his childhood home, he asked Leonardo to design a new town to include two new ch�teaux, one for himself and one for his mother. The plans for his mother's ch�teau is now part of the Royal Collection in Windsor Castle in England.
Author: Jean-Pierre Isbouts Publisher: Apollo Publishers ISBN: 1948062356 Category : Art Languages : en Pages : 279
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For the 500th anniversary of Leonardo da Vinci’s death comes an immersive journey through five centuries of history to define the Leonardo mystique and uncover how the elusive Renaissance artist became a global pop icon. Virtually everyone would agree that Leonardo da Vinci was the most important artist of the High Renaissance. It was Leonardo who singlehandedly created the defining features of Western art: a realism based on subtle shading; depth using atmospheric effects; and dramatic contrasts between light and dark. But how did Leonardo, a painter of very few works who died in obscurity in France, become the internationally renowned icon he is today, with the Mona Lisa and the Last Supper the most visited artworks in the world, attracting nearly a billion visitors each year, and Salvator Mundi selling as the most expensive artwork of all time, for nearly half a billion dollars? This extraordinary volume, lavishly illustrated with 130 color images, is the first book to unravel these mysteries by diving deep into the art, literature, science, and politics of Europe from the Renaissance through today. It gives illuminating context to both Leonardo and his accomplishments; explores why Leonardo’s fame vastly overshadowed that of his contemporaries and disciples; and ultimately reveals why despite finishing very few works, his celebrity has survived, even thrived, through five centuries of history.
Author: Walter Isaacson Publisher: Simon and Schuster ISBN: 1501139177 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 624
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The #1 New York Times bestseller from Walter Isaacson brings Leonardo da Vinci to life in this exciting new biography that is “a study in creativity: how to define it, how to achieve it…Most important, it is a powerful story of an exhilarating mind and life” (The New Yorker). Based on thousands of pages from Leonardo da Vinci’s astonishing notebooks and new discoveries about his life and work, Walter Isaacson “deftly reveals an intimate Leonardo” (San Francisco Chronicle) in a narrative that connects his art to his science. He shows how Leonardo’s genius was based on skills we can improve in ourselves, such as passionate curiosity, careful observation, and an imagination so playful that it flirted with fantasy. He produced the two most famous paintings in history, The Last Supper and the Mona Lisa. With a passion that sometimes became obsessive, he pursued innovative studies of anatomy, fossils, birds, the heart, flying machines, botany, geology, and weaponry. He explored the math of optics, showed how light rays strike the cornea, and produced illusions of changing perspectives in The Last Supper. His ability to stand at the crossroads of the humanities and the sciences, made iconic by his drawing of Vitruvian Man, made him history’s most creative genius. In the “luminous” (Daily Beast) Leonardo da Vinci, Isaacson describes how Leonardo’s delight at combining diverse passions remains the ultimate recipe for creativity. So, too, does his ease at being a bit of a misfit: illegitimate, gay, vegetarian, left-handed, easily distracted, and at times heretical. His life should remind us of the importance to be imaginative and, like talented rebels in any era, to think different. Here, da Vinci “comes to life in all his remarkable brilliance and oddity in Walter Isaacson’s ambitious new biography…a vigorous, insightful portrait” (The Washington Post).
Author: Janine Marsh Publisher: Michael O'Mara Books ISBN: 1789290481 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 175
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In this follow up to My Good Life in France, Janine Marsh tells of the delights and dramas of getting to grips with rural life in northern France.
Author: Stephanie Storey Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing, Inc. ISBN: 1628726393 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 354
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"From 1501 to 1505, Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo Buonarroti both lived and worked in Florence. Leonardo was a charming, handsome fifty year-old at the peak of his career. Michelangelo was a temperamental sculptor in his mid-twenties, desperate to make a name for himself. The two despise each other."--Front jacket flap.
Author: Leonardo (da Vinci) Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art ISBN: 1588390330 Category : Drawing, Italian Languages : en Pages : 802
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This 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: Richard McLanathan Publisher: Harry N. Abrams ISBN: 9780810936348 Category : Young Adult Nonfiction Languages : en Pages : 96
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A biography of the Renaissance sculptor, painter, architect, and poet, whose greatest work may have been the Sistine Chapel in Rome's St. Peter's Cathedral.
Author: Martin Clayton Publisher: National Geographic Books ISBN: 0847859401 Category : Art Languages : en Pages : 0
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"The year 2019 sees the 500th anniversary of the death of Leonardo da Vinci.... In the Spring of 2019, selections of the finest of Leonardo's drawings will be shown simultaneously at twelve museums and galleries across England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. The Queen's Gallery at Buckingham Palace will show 200 drawings during the Summer--the largest exhibition of Leonardo's work in almost 70 years--and many of those drawings will be displayed at the Palace of Holyroodhouse in Edinburgh the following Winter"--Foreword.
Author: Serge Bramly Publisher: ISBN: 9780500237175 Category : Art, Renaissance Languages : en Pages : 79
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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 plates portray the Mona Lisa in close-up photographs, while Serge Bramly, the author, explores its shadowy history and the fascination the painting has engendered.
Author: Pamela Shields
Author: Pamela Shields
Author: Robin Stevens Payes
Author: Jean-Pierre Isbouts
Author: Walter Isaacson
Author: Janine Marsh
Author: Stephanie Storey
Author: Leonardo (da Vinci)
Author: Richard McLanathan
Author: Martin Clayton
Author: Serge Bramly