The graphic work / Frank Z?llner and Johannes Nathan. The young artist in Florence (1469-1480) ; Professional breakthrough in Florence (1480-1482) ; A fresh start in Milan (1483-1484) ; Beginnings as court artist in Milan (1485-1494) ;$tThe artist and "science" ; From the "Last Supper" to the fall of Ludovico Sforza (1495-1499) ; From Mantua to Venice and back to Florence (1500-1503) ; Leonardo in Florence: battle paintings and "muscular rhetoric" (1504-1506) ; Between Florence and Milan (1506-1510) ; The last years. -- Catalogue raisonn? of the paintings -- Bibliographical references (life and work) / Frank Z?llner -- The graphic work / Frank Z?llner and Johannes Nathan.
Summary:
One of the most high-achieving human beings who has ever lived, Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) is recognized the world over as a figure of infinite curiosity, feverish imagination and sublime artistic ability. This title provides the most comprehensive survey of the life and work of this master painter, sculptor, architect, scientist and inventor. Its catalogue raisonn? of Leonardo's paintings covers both his surviving and his lost painted works. With full-bleed details of many paintings, the reader is able to inspect the subtlest facets of brushworks that come to revolutionize art history. A further catalogue of Leonardo's drawings arranges nearly 700 of his drawings by category (architecture, technical, proportion, cartography, etc.) and showcases his fabulous observational finesse, from anatomical studies to architectural plans, from complex engineering designs to pudgy infant portraits. -- From publisher's description.
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