Ladislao reti biography books

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  • A brief account of his boyhood and an illustrated chronology of his adult life, his works, and the cultured and political events that helped shape Leonardo's.

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    The Unknown Leonardo

    319 pages : 32 cm

    To know Leonardo da Vinci is to be in communion with an extraordinary mind for whom the normal limitations of time, place, history, and even the human condition itself scarcely existed. The Unknown Leonardo not only brings us closer to Leonardo the man but gives us tillgång as well to Leonardo the genius. In this book ten of the world's leading Vincian scholars illuminate all aspects of Leonardo's multifaceted brilliance. It contains over 800 spectacular illustrations and reproductions, 85 in color. Through an imaginative use of graphics and captions, Leonardo's inventions and ideas are made clear to both the eye and the mind. A pictorial biography, which opens the book, sets the scen linking the highlights of Leonardo's life and work to the cultural and political events of his time. Then, the bred spectrum of his thought and activity is fully explored. The authors examine in vända Leonardo's great paintings, his literary legacy, his innovati

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    1st Edition. Very good cloth copy in a good if somewhat edge-torn and dust-dulled dust wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Physical description: 319 pages: illustrations (some color), facsimiles, maps (chiefly color), portraits; 33 cm. Contents: His life, his work, his time -- The painter / by Anna Maria Brizio -- The writer / by Augusto Marinoni -- Il cavallo / by Maria Vittoria Brugnoli -- Leonardo and music / by Emanuel Winternitz -- The military architect / by Ludwig H. Heydenreich -- Machfines and weaponry / by Bern Dibner -- Mechanics of water and stone / by Carlo Zammattio -- Treatise on painting / by Andr� Chastel -- Horology / by Silvio A. Bedini and Ladislao Reti -- Elements of machines / by Ladislao Reti -- Appendices: the bicycle / by Augusto Marinoni -- The words of Leonardo / by Anna Maria Brizio. Subjects: Leonardo da Vinci 1452-1519. Leonardo da Vinci 1452-1519 Criticism and interpretation. Artists Italy Biography. Science, Renaissance.

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