Leonardo da Vinci: The Complete Works

by Leonardo Da Vinci

Overview

Leonardo Da Vinci is considered to be one of the greatest painters of all time and perhaps the most diversely talented person ever to have lived, responsible for the Mona Lisa, The Last Supper, The Madonna of the Carnation and Vitruvian Man.

Leonardo was an Italian Renaissance polymath: painter, sculptor, architect, musician, scientist, mathematician, engineer, inventor, anatomist, geologist, cartographer, botanist, and writer, and this captivating book provides the reader with a unique insight into the life and work of one of history's most intriguing figures.

All of Leonardo Da Vinci's work is presented in this compact volume - from his paintings and frescos, to detailed reproductions of his remarkable encrypted notebooks. As well as featuring each individual artwork, sections of each are shown in isolation to reveal incredible details - for example, the different levels of perspective between the background sections of the Mona Lisa, and the disembodied hand in The Last Supper. 640 pages of colour artworks and photographs of Da Vinci's original notebooks, accompanied by fascinating biographical and historical details are here.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780715324530
Publisher:	David & Charles
Publication date:	04/28/2006
Edition description:	UK ed.
Pages:	640
Product dimensions:	4.65(w) x 5.98(h) x (d)

About the Author

Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci (April 15, 1452 ; May 2, 1519) was an Italian Renaissance polymath: painter, sculptor, architect, musician, scientist, mathematician, engineer, inventor, anatomist, geologist, cartographer, botanist, and writer. His genius, perhaps more than that of any other figure, epitomized the Renaissance humanist ideal. Leonardo has often been described as the archetype of the Renaissance Man. He is widely considered to be one of the greatest painters of all time and perhaps the most diversely talented person ever to have lived.

Leonardo was and is renowned primarily as a painter. Among his works, the Mona Lisa is the most famous and most parodied portrait and The Last Supper, the most reproduced religious painting of all time, with their fame approached only by Michelangelo's The Creation of Adam. Leonardo's drawing of the Vitruvian Man is also regarded as a cultural icon.
|Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci (April 15, 1452 – May 2, 1519, Old Style)

Table of Contents

Introduction by Carlo Pedretti
The artist's life

The paintings
- The Baptism of Christ
- The Annunciation (Florence)
- The Annunciation (Paris)
- Portrait of Ginevra Benci
- The Madonna of the Carnation
- The Benois Madonna
- The Adoration of the Magi
- Saint Jerome
- The Virgin of the Rocks (Paris)
- The Virgin of the Rocks (London)
- Portrait of a Musician
- Lady with an Ermine (Portrait of Cecilia Gallerani)
- Portrait of a Lady (La Belle Ferronnière)
- The Last Supper
- Sala delle Asse
- Portrait of Isabella d'Este
- Head of a Young Woman (La Scapiliata)
- The Virgin and Child with Saint Anne and Saint John the Baptist (London)
- The Virgin and Child with Saint Anne and a Lamb (Paris)
- Saint John the Baptist
- Bacchus (Saint John)
- Mona Lisa (La Gioconda)

The drawings
Drawings in Italy
- Florence, Galleria degli Uffizi, Gabinetto dei Disegni e delle Stampe
- Turin, Biblioteca Reale
- Venice, Gallerie dell'Accademia
- Milan, Biblioteca Ambrosiana
- Rome, Gabinetto Nazionale delle Stampe e dei Disegni
Drawings in Europe
Drawings in America

The collections
Codex Atlanticus, Milan, Biblioteca Ambrosiana
Windsor Collection, Windsor Castle, Royal Library
- Anatomy
- Landscapes, plants and water studies
- Horses and other animals
- Figure studies
- Miscellaneous papers

The manuscripts
- Codex Trivulziano, Milan, Biblioteca del Castello Sforzesco
- Codex on the Flight of Birds, Turin, Biblioteca Reale
- Manuscripts of France, Paris, Institut de France
- Madrid Codices, Madrid, Biblioteca Nacional
- Codex Arundel, London, British Museum
- Forster Codices (I-III), London, Victoria and Albert Museum
- Codex Hammer, Seattle, Bill Gates Collection
- Libro di Pittura (Book on Painting), Vatican City, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana

Bibliography