Leonardo Da Vinci: The Complete Paintings and Drawings - Hardcover

Zllner, Frank; Nathan, Johannes

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 3836527014 ISBN 13: 9783836527019

Publisher: Taschen America Llc, 2015

Synopsis

Da Vinci in detail: Leonardo's life and work all pictures, all drawings! One of the most fully achieved human beings who has ever lived, Leonardo da Vinci(1452 1519) is recognized the world over as a figure ofinfinite curiosity, feverish imagination and sublime artistic ability.Thisupdated editionof our XL title provides themost comprehensive survey of the life and work of this master painter, sculptor, architect, scientist, and inventor. Itscatalogue raisonneof 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 came to revolutionize Art History.A further catalog ofLeonardo's drawingsarranges nearly 700 of his drawings by category (architecture, technical, proportion, cartography, etc) and showcases his fabulous observational finesse, fromanatomical studies to architectural plans, from complex engineering designs to pudgy infant portraits. It includes a fresh chapter exploring theartist's mesmerizing manuscripts.The accompanying account of Leonardo's life and work includes a special in-depth exploration of his masterworksThe AnnunciationandThe Last Supper. "

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Review:

"Opening this lavishly illustrated book is a sumptuous celebration of the visual aspects of Leonardo's oeuvre."

About the Author:

Johannes Nathan studied art history at New York University and the Courtauld Institute of Art in London, where he earned his Ph.D. in 1995 with a dissertation on the working methods of Leonardo da Vinci. He is the author of numerous art publications, director of Nathan Fine Art (Berlin and Zurich) and teaches art history at the Technische Universitat, Berlin. Frank Zoellner wrote his doctoral thesis on motifs originating from Antiquity in the history of art and architecture of the Medieval and Renaissance periods (1987). He is also the author of a postdoctoral treatise on motion and expression in the art of Leonardo da Vinci, published in 2010. He has published numerous works on Renaissance art and art theory, and on 20th-century art. Since 1996 he has been Professor of Medieval and Modern Art at the University of Leipzig. For TASCHEN he has authored the XL monographs on Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo.

About this edition

• Publisher: Taschen America Llc
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 3836527014
• ISBN 13: 9783836527019
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 707