Author: Mária G. AggházyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bronze sculpture
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
Leonardo's Equestrian Statuette
Author: Mária G. AggházyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bronze sculpture
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
Leonardo's Horse
Author: Jean FritzPublisher: G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers
ISBN:
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 56
Book Description
Describes how a dream to sculpt a gold horse was passed from Leonardo da Vinci, to Charles Dent, to Nina Akamu, and upon completion given as a gift from the United States.
Leonardo Da Vinci's Sforza Monument Horse
Author: Diane Cole AhlPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
At twenty-four feet in height, the Sforza Monument would have been the largest equestrian statue ever made. During his seventeen years in Milan, Leonardo researched the project intensively, making scores of drawings of horses and technological studies for its casting.
Leonardo's Equestrian Statuette
Author: Mária G. AggházyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bronze sculpture
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
Leonardo's Horse
Author: Chip LovittPublisher: Book Treks: Level 4
ISBN: 9780765249517
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
Tells about Leonardo da Vinci's life and the story of his model clay horse that was destroyed before he could make a bronze statue. Also tells the story of Charles Dent and Nina Akamu who fulfilled da Vinci's dream and made a twenty four foot bronze horse statue in the late 1990s.
Leonardo Da Vinci and the Art of Sculpture
Author: Gary M. RadkePublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
"Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) is renowned as a painter, designer, draftsman, architect, engineer, scientist, and theorist. His work as a sculptor is not commonly acknowledged, and many have argued that Leonardo believed that sculpture was an inferior art form ("of lesser genius than painting"). Challenging and overturning these assumptions, Leonardo da Vinci and the Art of Sculpture looks at the sculptural projects that the artist undertook, as well as the late Renaissance sculptures that were indebted to him." "Leonardo consistently drew inspiration from ancient sculpture, admired the work of such contemporary sculptural innovators as Donatello, and even trained under Andrea del Verrocchio, the preeminent bronze sculptor of late 15th-century Florence. Furthermore, Leonardo spent many years of his life working on two larger-than-life-sized horse sculptures - Sforza and Trivulzio - monuments to Francesco Sforza, the Duke of Milan, and to Gian Giacomo Trivulzio, his sucessor. Although neither was completed, the authors argue that these equestrian monuments show how Leonardo was intensely engaged with the design dilemmas of representing a horse rearing on its hind legs. Another highlight of the book is a group of new images of the John the Baptist Preaching to a Levite and a Pharisee, a recently restored large-scale work in the Florentine Baptistery that clearly demonstrates Leonardo's collaboration with Giovanni Francesco Rustici." --Book Jacket.
The Bronze Horseman of Justinian in Constantinople
Author: Elena N. BoeckPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107197279
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 481
Book Description
Biography of the medieval Mediterranean's most cross-culturally significant sculptural monument, the tallest in the pre-modern world.
Leonardo Da Vinci and the Budapest Horse and Rider
Author: Zoltán KárpátiPublisher:
ISBN: 9786155304880
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 82
Book Description
Leonardo's Swans
Author: Karen EssexPublisher: Anchor
ISBN: 0385517661
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
Isabelle d’Este, daughter of the Duke of Ferrara, born into privilege and the political and artistic turbulence of Renaissance Italy, is a stunning black-eyed blond and an art lover and collector. Worldly and ambitious, she has never envied her less attractive sister, the spirited but naïve Beatrice, until, by a quirk of fate, Beatrice is betrothed to the future Duke of Milan. Although he is more than twice their age, openly lives with his mistress, and is reputedly trying to eliminate the current duke by nefarious means, Ludovico Sforza is Isabella’s match in intellect and passion for all things of beauty. Only he would allow her to fulfill her destiny: to reign over one of the world’s most powerful and enlightened realms and be immortalized in oil by the genius Leonardo da Vinci. Isabella vows that she will not rest until she wins her true fate, and the two sisters compete for supremacy in the illustrious courts of Europe. A haunting novel of rivalry, love, and betrayal that transports you back to Renaissance Italy, Leonardo’s Swans will have you dashing to the works of the great master—not for clues to a mystery but to contemplate the secrets of the human heart.
Leonardo Da Vinci's Horse
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
The Italian sculptor Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) received a commission to construct a bronze horse for Ludovico Sforza, the Duke of Milan, in Italy during the 1480s. Leonardo's full-scale clay model was destroyed by war and the bronze horse was never constructed. The goals of Leonardo da Vinci's Horse Inc. were to pay homage to Leonardo da Vinci by building a horse based on his drawings and to present the horse to the Italian people as a gift from the American people. The sculptor Nina Akamu created the horse, which was unveiled in Milan, Italy, on September 10, 1999. An image of the sculpture is available.