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Illuminating Leonardo

Author : Constance Moffatt
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004304134
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (43 download)

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Download or read book Illuminating Leonardo written by Constance Moffatt and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2016-01-12 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Illuminating Leonardo opens the new series Leonardo Studies with a tribute to Professor Carlo Pedretti, the most important Leonardo scholar of our time, with a wide-ranging overview of current Leonardo scholarship from the most renowned Leonardo scholars and young researchers. Though no single book could provide a comprehensive overview of the current state of Leonardo studies, after reading this collection of short essays cover-to-cover, the reader will come away knowing a great deal about the current state of the field in many areas of research. To begin the series, editors Constance Moffatt and Sara Taglialagamba present an impressive group of essays that offer fresh ideas as a departure point for future studies. Contributors include Andrea Bernardoni, Pascal Broist, Alfredo Buccaro, Francesco Paolo di Teodoro, Claire Farago, Francesca Fiorani, Fabio Frosini, Sabine Frommel, Leslie Geddes, Damiano Iacobone, Martin Kemp, Matthew Landrus, Domenico Laurenza, Pietro C. Marani, Max Marmor, Constance Moffatt, Romano Nanni, Annalisa Perissa-Torrini, Paola Salvi, Richard Schofield, Sara Taglialagamba, Carlo Vecce, Alessandro Vezzosi, Marino Viganò, and Joanna Woods-Marsden.

Illuminating Leonardo

Author : Constance J. Moffatt
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789004392434
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (924 download)

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Download or read book Illuminating Leonardo written by Constance J. Moffatt and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Leonardo da Vinci – Nature and Architecture

Author : Constance Moffatt
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004398449
Total Pages : 449 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (43 download)

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Download or read book Leonardo da Vinci – Nature and Architecture written by Constance Moffatt and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2019-06-17 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The second volume of Leonardo Studies offers an impressive overview of current Leonardo scholarship into two of his primary interests: nature and architecture. The authors consider Leonardo’s treatises and their aftermath, science experiments, and fields of art and science based on two abundant subjects.

The Fabrication of Leonardo da Vinci’s Trattato della pittura (2 vols.)

Author : Claire Farago
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 900435378X
Total Pages : 1371 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (43 download)

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Download or read book The Fabrication of Leonardo da Vinci’s Trattato della pittura (2 vols.) written by Claire Farago and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2018-01-29 with total page 1371 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This first complete English translation, including over 250 full-color images, is a longitudinal cultural history of how art came to be institutionalized in the history of western representational practices.

Leonardo's Lost Princess

Author : Peter Silverman
Publisher : Turner Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 1118163117
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (181 download)

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Download or read book Leonardo's Lost Princess written by Peter Silverman and published by Turner Publishing Company. This book was released on 2011-12-19 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How an oddly attributed $19,000 picture proved to be a $100 million work by Leonardo da Vinci—a true art-world detective story In late 2010, art collector Peter Silverman revealed that a "German, early 19th century" portrait he had bought for $19,000 was, in fact, a previously unknown drawing by Leonardo da Vinci—an exquisite depiction of Bianca Sforza, rendered 500 years ago. In Leonardo's Lost Princess, Silverman gives a riveting first-person account of how his initial suspicions of the portrait's provenance were confirmed repeatedly by scientists and art experts. He describes the path to authentication, fraught with opposition and controversy. The twists and turns of this fascinating, decade-long quest lead from art history to cutting-edge science, and from a New York art gallery to Paris, Milan, Zurich, and ultimately a Warsaw library where the final, convincing evidence that the portrait was indeed by da Vinci was found. Takes an up-close look at the workings of the art world and at figures ranging from dealers and connoisseurs to a suspected forger Discusses current scientific techniques used to investigate and authenticate works of art, such as carbon dating and cutting-edge photography Uses Silverman's drawing as an entree into Leonardo da Vinci's world: his studio, his style, and his methods Explores the intersection of art and science in the authentication process, involving the work of a man who embodied that intersection Unearthing the secrets almost lost to history, the book is ideal reading for art lovers and anyone interested in an astounding case of "whodunit."

Mona Lisa

Author : Martin Kemp
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198749902
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (987 download)

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Download or read book Mona Lisa written by Martin Kemp and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The true story of the Mona Lisa - the people behind it, how Leonardo painted it and what it meant to him, and its fortunes in the centuries since. Read this book and the world's most famous image will never look the same again.

Leonardo da Vinci

Author : Eugène Müntz
Publisher : Parkstone International
ISBN 13 : 1781603863
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (816 download)

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Download or read book Leonardo da Vinci written by Eugène Müntz and published by Parkstone International. This book was released on 2012-05-08 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Leonardo’s early life was spent in Florence, his maturity in Milan, and the last three years of his life in France. Leonardo’s teacher was Verrocchio. First he was a goldsmith, then a painter and sculptor: as a painter, representative of the very scientific school of draughtsmanship; more famous as a sculptor, being the creator of the Colleoni statue at Venice, Leonardo was a man of striking physical attractiveness, great charm of manner and conversation, and mental accomplishment. He was well grounded in the sciences and mathematics of the day, as well as a gifted musician. His skill in draughtsmanship was extraordinary; shown by his numerous drawings as well as by his comparatively few paintings. His skill of hand is at the service of most minute observation and analytical research into the character and structure of form. Leonardo is the first in date of the great men who had the desire to create in a picture a kind of mystic unity brought about by the fusion of matter and spirit. Now that the Primitives had concluded their experiments, ceaselessly pursued during two centuries, by the conquest of the methods of painting, he was able to pronounce the words which served as a password to all later artists worthy of the name: painting is a spiritual thing, cosa mentale. He completed Florentine draughtsmanship in applying to modelling by light and shade, a sharp subtlety which his predecessors had used only to give greater precision to their contours. This marvellous draughtsmanship, this modelling and chiaroscuro he used not solely to paint the exterior appearance of the body but, as no one before him had done, to cast over it a reflection of the mystery of the inner life. In the Mona Lisa and his other masterpieces he even used landscape not merely as a more or less picturesque decoration, but as a sort of echo of that interior life and an element of a perfect harmony. Relying on the still quite novel laws of perspective this doctor of scholastic wisdom, who was at the same time an initiator of modern thought, substituted for the discursive manner of the Primitives the principle of concentration which is the basis of classical art. The picture is no longer presented to us as an almost fortuitous aggregate of details and episodes. It is an organism in which all the elements, lines and colours, shadows and lights, compose a subtle tracery converging on a spiritual, a sensuous centre. It was not with the external significance of objects, but with their inward and spiritual significance, that Leonardo was occupied.

Watermarks

Author : Leslie A. Geddes
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691192693
Total Pages : 253 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (911 download)

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Download or read book Watermarks written by Leslie A. Geddes and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2020-08-25 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "An exploration of depictions and use of water within Renaissance Italy, and especially in the work of polymath Leonardo da Vinci. Both a practical necessity and a powerful symbol, water presents one of the most challenging problems in visual art due to its formlessness, clarity, and mutability. In Renaissance Italy, it was a nearly inexhaustible subject of inquiry for artists, engineers, and architects alike: it represented an element to be productively harnessed and a force of untamed nature. Watermarks places the depiction and use of water within an intellectual history of early modern Italy, examining the parallel technological and aesthetic challenges of mastering water and the scientific and artistic practices that emerged in response to them. Focusing primarily on the wide-ranging work of Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519)-at once an artist, scientist, and inventor-Leslie Geddes shows how the deployment of artistic media, such as ink and watercolor, closely correlated with the engineering challenges of controlling water in the natural world. For da Vinci and his peers, she argues, drawing was an essential form of visual thinking. Geddes analyses a wide range of da Vinci's subject matter, including machine drawings, water management schemes, and depictions of the natural landscape, and demonstrates how drawing-as an intellectual practice, a form of scientific investigation, and a visual representation-constituted a distinct mode of problem solving integral to his understanding of the natural environment. Throughout, Geddes draws important connections between works by da Vinci that have long been overlooked, the artistic and engineering practices of his day, and critical questions about the nature of seeing and depicting the almost unseeable during the early modern period"--

Leonardo da Vinci and The Virgin of the Rocks

Author : Katy Blatt
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1527514919
Total Pages : 201 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (275 download)

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Download or read book Leonardo da Vinci and The Virgin of the Rocks written by Katy Blatt and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2018-07-27 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first book dedicated to Leonardo da Vinci’s commission for The Virgin of the Rocks. Leonardo completed fewer than twenty paintings in his lifetime, yet he returned twice to this same mysterious subject over the course of a twenty-five year period. Identical in terms of iconography, stylistically these paintings are worlds apart. The first, of c.1482-4, was Leonardo’s magnum opus, catapulting the young artist from obscurity to fame. When, in 1508, he finished the second painting, he was nearing the end of his artistic career and had become an international celebrity. Why did he revisit The Virgin of the Rocks? What was the meaning behind the cavernous subterranean landscape? What lies behind the colder monumentality of the second version? This book opens up Leonardo’s world, setting the scene in Republican Florence and the humanist court of the Milanese warlord Ludovico Sforza, to answer these questions. Through lyrical yet scholarly analyses of Leonardo’s paintings, notebooks and technical experimentation, it unveils the secret realms of human dissection and Neo-Platonic philosophy that inspired the creation of the two masterpieces. In doing so, the book reveals that The Virgin of the Rocks holds the key to the greatest philosophical, scientific and personal transformations of Leonardo’s life. Images and links to figures are available at www.virginoftherocks.com.

Leonardo Da Vinci on Painting

Author : Leonardo (da Vinci)
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Leonardo Da Vinci on Painting written by Leonardo (da Vinci) and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1964 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Advances in Italian Mechanism Science

Author : Vincenzo Niola
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 303055807X
Total Pages : 902 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (35 download)

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Download or read book Advances in Italian Mechanism Science written by Vincenzo Niola and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-08-19 with total page 902 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents the proceedings of the 3rd International Conference of IFToMM ITALY, held online on September 9-11, 2020. It includes peer-reviewed papers on the latest advances in mechanism and machine science, discussing topics such as biomechanical engineering, computational kinematics, the history of mechanism and machine science, gearing and transmissions, multi-body dynamics, robotics and mechatronics, the dynamics of machinery, tribology, vibrations, rotor dynamics and vehicle dynamics. A valuable, up-to-date resource, it offers an essential overview of the subject for scientists and practitioners alike, and will inspire further investigations and research.

Andrea del Sarto: Splendor and Renewal in the Renaissance Altarpiece

Author : Steven J. Cody
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004431934
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (44 download)

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Download or read book Andrea del Sarto: Splendor and Renewal in the Renaissance Altarpiece written by Steven J. Cody and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-08-25 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Andrea del Sarto (1486–1530) created altarpieces of startling beauty. Steven J. Cody analyzes those remarkable paintings as a means of illuminating the artist’s career-long engagement with Christian theology.

Leonardo da Vinci

Author : Allison Lee Palmer
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1538119781
Total Pages : 203 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (381 download)

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Download or read book Leonardo da Vinci written by Allison Lee Palmer and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2018-12-15 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Leonardo da Vinci: A Reference Guide to His Life and Works covers all aspects of his life and work, beginning with his paintings, including several he never completed, that form the core of his artistic oeuvre. The extensive A to Z section includes several hundred entries. The bibliography provides a comprehensive list of publications concerning his life and work Includes a detailed chronology detailing Leonardo Da Vinci’s life, family, and work. The A to Z section includes Leonardo’s main patrons, the major places he worked, and the artists and scholars whose work and ideas played an important role in the formation of his career. The bibliography includes a list of publications concerning his life and work. The index thoroughly cross-references the chronological and encyclopedic entries.

From Sight to Light

Author : A. Mark Smith
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022617493X
Total Pages : 470 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (261 download)

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Download or read book From Sight to Light written by A. Mark Smith and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2014-12-26 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From its inception in Greek antiquity, the science of optics was aimed primarily at explaining sight and accounting for why things look as they do. By the end of the seventeenth century, however, the analytic focus of optics had shifted to light: its fundamental properties and such physical behaviors as reflection, refraction, and diffraction. This dramatic shift—which A. Mark Smith characterizes as the “Keplerian turn”—lies at the heart of this fascinating and pioneering study. Breaking from previous scholarship that sees Johannes Kepler as the culmination of a long-evolving optical tradition that traced back to Greek antiquity via the Muslim Middle Ages, Smith presents Kepler instead as marking a rupture with this tradition, arguing that his theory of retinal imaging, which was published in 1604, was instrumental in prompting the turn from sight to light. Kepler’s new theory of sight, Smith reveals, thus takes on true historical significance: by treating the eye as a mere light-focusing device rather than an image-producing instrument—as traditionally understood—Kepler’s account of retinal imaging helped spur the shift in analytic focus that eventually led to modern optics. A sweeping survey, From Sight to Light is poised to become the standard reference for historians of optics as well as those interested more broadly in the history of science, the history of art, and cultural and intellectual history.

The Science of Leonardo

Author : Fritjof Capra
Publisher : Anchor
ISBN 13 : 0307472922
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book The Science of Leonardo written by Fritjof Capra and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2008-12-02 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Leonardo da Vinci's scientific explorations were virtually unknown during his lifetime, despite their extraordinarily wide range. He studied the flight patterns of birds to create some of the first human flying machines; designed military weapons and defenses; studied optics, hydraulics, and the workings of the human circulatory system; and created designs for rebuilding Milan, employing principles still used by city planners today. Perhaps most importantly, Leonardo pioneered an empirical, systematic approach to the observation of nature-what is known today as the scientific method.Drawing on over 6,000 pages of Leonardo's surviving notebooks, acclaimed scientist and bestselling author Fritjof Capra reveals Leonardo's artistic approach to scientific knowledge and his organic and ecological worldview. In this fascinating portrait of a thinker centuries ahead of his time, Leonardo singularly emerges as the unacknowledged “father of modern science.” From the Trade Paperback edition.

Chronicles of the Enchanted Vanguard

Author : Luminescence Goh
Publisher : Partridge Publishing Singapore
ISBN 13 : 1543780806
Total Pages : 371 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (437 download)

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Download or read book Chronicles of the Enchanted Vanguard written by Luminescence Goh and published by Partridge Publishing Singapore. This book was released on 2023-10-26 with total page 371 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a world plagued by environmental crises, a diverse team led by Seraphina embarked on a heroic quest for peace. Their journey spanned various terrains, from ruined cities to mystical forests and volcanic islands. Along the way, they grappled with personal conflicts, emphasizing friendship, valor, sacrifice, and hope as essential values. As the battle between light and darkness escalated, internal struggles emerged. The team confronted the complexities of human nature while resisting the allure of evil. Through heart-pounding battles and unwavering determination, they defended justice and unity against the looming threats. Victory was not the end; more challenges lay ahead. Despite the relentless darkness, they persevered, forging a brighter future founded on peace and hope, transcending the forces of evil

Bulletin - National Electric Light Association

Author : National Electric Light Association
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 68 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Bulletin - National Electric Light Association written by National Electric Light Association and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: