Leonardo Revised Edition
Revised Edition
1st Edition
Published on 6. October 2011
313 pages
978-0-19-163078-1 (ISBN)
Description
Cutting through the veil of legend, Martin Kemp offers an unparalleled portrait of this extraordinary man, asking what made Leonardo's work so astonishing and what vision drove his art and his invention. This updated edition is the first book to include two newly discovered Leonardo works, the most important discoveries in over a hundred years.
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Content
- Cover
- Leonardo
- Copyright
- Preface
- Note to the 2011 edition
- Contents
- List of Plates and Figures
- Plates 1-10 following page 78
- 11-21 following page 174
- Figures
- The Gallery
- Picture Acknowledgements (MS shelfmarks in brackets)
- Introduction: Leonardo and the 'Abbreviators'
- 1. A Strange Career
- Working, or not Working, to Order
- Cash Flow
- Courting Favour in War and Peace
- The Painter's Household and Workshop
- In Person
- 2. Looking
- Common Sense, Imagination, and Intellect
- The Eye
- Standing Up and Moving Around
- The Vortex
- 'Necessity', 'Continuous Quantity', and the Primacy of Geometry
- 3. Body and Machine
- Observation and Received Wisdom
- Form and Function
- The Elements of Engineering
- The Uccello
- 4. The Living Earth
- Branches of Knowledge
- Master of Water
- Vene d'acqua
- The Deluge
- 5. Telling Tales
- The Fiction that Signifies Great Things
- Brainstorming
- Organizing the Stage
- Actors and Props
- Lighting
- The Beholder's Share
- Viewing in Public
- Viewing in Private
- 6. Lisa's Room. Leonardo's Afterlife
- Gathering his Remains
- Written Fame
- Modern and Mythical
- Gallery
- Leonardo's Life in Outline
- Further Reading
- 1. General monographs etc.
- 2. Sources, facsimiles etc.
- 3. Drawings
- 4. Architecture and Engineering
- 5. Aspects of Science etc.
- Index
