
Leonardo Revised Edition
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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
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