Leonardo Da Vinci And The Virgin Of The Rocks

Author : Katy Blatt
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2018-07-27
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781527514911

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Leonardo da Vinci and The Virgin of the Rocks by Katy Blatt Pdf

This is the first book dedicated to Leonardo da Vinci’s commission for The Virgin of the Rocks. Leonardo completed fewer than twenty paintings in his lifetime, yet he returned twice to this same mysterious subject over the course of a twenty-five year period. Identical in terms of iconography, stylistically these paintings are worlds apart. The first, of c.1482-4, was Leonardo’s magnum opus, catapulting the young artist from obscurity to fame. When, in 1508, he finished the second painting, he was nearing the end of his artistic career and had become an international celebrity. Why did he revisit The Virgin of the Rocks? What was the meaning behind the cavernous subterranean landscape? What lies behind the colder monumentality of the second version? This book opens up Leonardo’s world, setting the scene in Republican Florence and the humanist court of the Milanese warlord Ludovico Sforza, to answer these questions. Through lyrical yet scholarly analyses of Leonardo’s paintings, notebooks and technical experimentation, it unveils the secret realms of human dissection and Neo-Platonic philosophy that inspired the creation of the two masterpieces. In doing so, the book reveals that The Virgin of the Rocks holds the key to the greatest philosophical, scientific and personal transformations of Leonardo’s life. Images and links to figures are available at www.virginoftherocks.com.

Author : Rachel Shirley
Publisher : Oil Painting Medic
Page : 50 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2016-07-22
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781370736942

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Oil Painting the Angel within Da Vinci’s the Virgin of the Rocks by Rachel Shirley Pdf

This essential oil painting instruction book guides the portraitist via in depth step-by-step instructions on how to paint Leonardo da Vinci’s angel that can be seen within his masterpiece, The Angel of the Rocks. With numerous colour images.

Author : Luke Syson,Larry Keith,Leonardo (da Vinci),National Gallery (Great Britain)
Publisher : National Gallery London
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Art
ISBN : UCSD:31822039365903

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Leonardo Da Vinci by Luke Syson,Larry Keith,Leonardo (da Vinci),National Gallery (Great Britain) Pdf

A new examination of Leonardo's career that illuminates his time as court painter to the Duke of Milan, an experience that fundamentally changed his outlook and his legacy

Author : Carlo Pedretti
Publisher : CB Edizioni
Page : 191 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Art
ISBN : 8897644538

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Leonardo Da Vinci. La «Vergine delle rocce» nella Versione Cheramy. La sua storia e fortuna critica-The «Virgin of the rocks» in the Cheramy Version. Its history and critical fortune. Ediz. bilingue by Carlo Pedretti Pdf

Author : Jonathan Jones
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 427 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2012-10-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9780307961013

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The Lost Battles by Jonathan Jones Pdf

From one of Britain’s most respected and acclaimed art historians, art critic of The Guardian—the galvanizing story of a sixteenth-century clash of titans, the two greatest minds of the Renaissance, working side by side in the same room in a fierce competition: the master Leonardo da Vinci, commissioned by the Florentine Republic to paint a narrative fresco depicting a famous military victory on a wall of the newly built Great Council Hall in the Palazzo Vecchio, and his implacable young rival, the thirty-year-old Michelangelo. We see Leonardo, having just completed The Last Supper, and being celebrated by all of Florence for his miraculous portrait of the wife of a textile manufacturer. That painting—the Mona Lisa—being called the most lifelike anyone had ever seen yet, more divine than human, was captivating the entire Florentine Republic. And Michelangelo, completing a commissioned statue of David, the first colossus of the Renaissance, the archetype hero for the Republic epitomizing the triumph of the weak over the strong, helping to reshape the public identity of the city of Florence and conquer its heart. In The Lost Battles, published in England to great acclaim (“Superb”—The Observer; “Beguilingly written”—The Guardian), Jonathan Jones brilliantly sets the scene of the time—the politics; the world of art and artisans; and the shifting, agitated cultural landscape. We see Florence, a city freed from the oppressive reach of the Medicis, lurching from one crisis to another, trying to protect its liberty in an Italy descending into chaos, with the new head of the Republic in search of a metaphor that will make clear the glory that is Florence, and seeing in the commissioned paintings the expression of his vision. Jones reconstructs the paintings that Leonardo and Michelangelo undertook—Leonardo’s Battle of Anghiari, a nightmare seen in the eyes of the warrior (it became the first modern depiction of the disenchantment of war) and Michelangelo’s Battle of Cascina, a call to arms and the first great transfiguration of the erotic into art. Jones writes about the competition; how it unfolded and became the defining moment in the transformation of “craftsman” to “artist”; why the Florentine government began to fall out of love with one artist in favor of the other; and how—and why—in a competition that had no formal prize to clearly resolve the outcome, the battle became one for the hearts and minds of the Florentine Republic, with Michelangelo setting out to prove that his work, not Leonardo’s, embodied the future of art. Finally, we see how the result of the competition went on to shape a generation of narrative paintings, beginning with those of Raphael. A riveting exploration into one of history’s most resonant exchanges of ideas, a rich, fascinating book that gives us a whole new understanding of an age and those at its center.

Author : Frank Zöllner
Publisher : Taschen
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Art
ISBN : 3822859796

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Leonardo Da Vinci, 1452-1519 by Frank Zöllner Pdf

Life and work of the renowned painter, scientist, and philosopher of the Renaissance period.

Author : Martin Davies
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1947
Category : Electronic
ISBN : LCCN:48015515

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Leonardo Da Vinci by Martin Davies Pdf

Author : Ann C. Pizzorusso
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Etruscans
ISBN : 1940613000

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Tweeting Da Vinci by Ann C. Pizzorusso Pdf

Author : Martin Davies
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 16 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1947
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:920687340

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Leonardo Da Vinci by Martin Davies Pdf

Author : Alessandro Vezzosi
Publisher : Thames & Hudson
Page : 159 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Artists
ISBN : 050030081X

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Leonardo Da Vinci by Alessandro Vezzosi Pdf

Leonardo da Vinci is one of the outstanding figures of the Renaissance and of all time.

Author : Jean-Pierre Isbouts (Ed )
Publisher : Fielding University Press
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2019-03-22
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0986393037

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Leonardo Da Vinci's Mona Lisa by Jean-Pierre Isbouts (Ed ) Pdf

Art historians have long debated the question why sources about the origin of the Mona Lisa portrait provide conflicting information. This monograph presents a solution for this quandary: these 16th century sources don't agree because they are not talking about the same painting. If we consider this possibility, that Leonardo painted not one, but two versions of the Mona Lisa, then all of these problems begin to resolve themselves. In fact, throughout his life Leonardo would often return to a motif or composition for a variety of reasons. Thus we have at least two versions of The Virgin of the Rocks, painted by Leonardo with the De Predis brothers in Milan, and two versions of the Madonna of the Yarnwinder, painted by Leonardo with his assistants in Florence. In other words, the proposition that Leonardo may have painted not one, but two versions of the Mona Lisa is by no means far-fetched. Nonetheless, it also raises an important question. If Leonardo did paint an earlier version in addition to the Louvre Mona Lisa, where is this portrait today? And how can we determine whether this painting is indeed an autograph, rather than one of the many Mona Lisa versions and copies that are still extant today?The answers to these questions are provided in this book, based on contributions by scholars from around the world. They include Prof. John Asmus of the University of California at San Diego; Prof. Vadim Parfenov at the State Electrotechnical University in St. Petersburg, Russia; Prof. Átila Soares da Costa Filho of the Universidade Cândido Mendes in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; Prof. Jason Halter of the University of Michigan; and Prof. Robert Meyrick of Aberystwyth University. In addition, this monograph includes contributions by noted art critic Gérard Boudin de l'Arche and two prominent artists, Albert Sauteur and Joe Mullins. The book is edited by Prof. Jean-Pierre Isbouts of Fielding Graduate University at Santa Barbara, CA. His previous publications on Leonardo da Vinci include The Mona Lisa Myth; Young Leonardo: The Evolution of a Revolutionary Artist; and The Da Vinci Legacy, co-authored with Dr. Christopher Brown.

Author : John Berger
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2008-09-25
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780141917986

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Ways of Seeing by John Berger Pdf

How do we see the world around us? The Penguin on Design series includes the works of creative thinkers whose writings on art, design and the media have changed our vision forever. "Seeing comes before words. The child looks and recognizes before it can speak." "But there is also another sense in which seeing comes before words. It is seeing which establishes our place in the surrounding world; we explain that world with words, but word can never undo the fact that we are surrounded by it. The relation between what we see and what we know is never settled." John Berger's Ways of Seeing is one of the most stimulating and influential books on art in any language. First published in 1972, it was based on the BBC television series about which the (London) Sunday Times critic commented: "This is an eye-opener in more ways than one: by concentrating on how we look at paintings . . . he will almost certainly change the way you look at pictures." By now he has.

Author : Charles Nicholl
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 640 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2005-04-07
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780141944241

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Leonardo Da Vinci by Charles Nicholl Pdf

Leonardo is the greatest, most multi-faceted and most mysterious of all Renaissance artists, but extraordinarily, considering his enormous reputation, this is the first full-length biography in English for several decades. Prize-winning author Charles Nicholl has immersed himself for five years in all the manuscripts, paintings and artefacts to produce an 'intimate portrait' of Leonardo. He uses these contemporary materials - his notebooks and sketchbooks, eye witnesses and early biographies, etc - as a way into the mental tone and physical texture of his life and has made myriad small discoveries about him and his work and his circle of associates. Among much else, the book identifies what Nicholl argues is an unknown portrait of the artist hanging in a church near Lodi in northern Italy. It also contains new material on his eccentric assistant Tomasso Masini, on his homosexual affairs in Florence, and on his curious relationship with a female model and/or prostitute from Cremona. A masterpiece of modern biography.

Author : Maurice W. Brockwell
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 54 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2022-09-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547347996

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Leonardo Da Vinci by Maurice W. Brockwell Pdf

DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Leonardo Da Vinci" by Maurice W. Brockwell. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

Author : Charles Nicholl
Publisher : Viking Adult
Page : 664 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Artists
ISBN : UCSC:32106017793297

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Leonardo Da Vinci by Charles Nicholl Pdf

In this new, intimate biography, award-winning author Nicholl creates a portrait of the artist for our time--a biography that brings Leonardo to life as a complex man living in a fascinating, dangerous, quickly changing world.