Leonardo da Vinci (Abbey Library Series) - Hardcover

Victor Ieronim Stoichita

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0491025777 ISBN 13: 9780491025775

Publisher: Abbey Library, 1978

Synopsis

Compelled as we all are in our age to narrow specialization, we find it difficult to understand the concept of 'universal genius,' in art or in any other domain. Leonardo, like all the thinkers of his time, held that science is one, that there is one art alone and that any superior man can examine some particular problem only in its relationship to all the rest: he believed, the same as they did, that it was not impossible to achieve such an undertaking. As his genius grew maturer, his art became more and more encyclopaedic, not only in his own field but - to a larger extent - in his general relations with life and thought.

Leonardo da Vinci, is about the painter and inventor that lived from 1452 to 1519. The book includes text sections: Leonardo To-day; Leonardo Da Vinci: On Painting; Leonardo and His Century; Leonardo and Modern Criticism; Chronology and Concordances; Bibliography; and List of Illustrations. Color pages show his paintings, along with some close-up views, and his sketches.

English edition, translated from the original Romanian.

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Language Notes:

Text: English, Romanian (translation)

From Library Journal:

The disheartening paucity of finished works by Leonardo da Vinci is partially recompensed by the superabundance of surviving drawings. This excellent selection of 100 drawings from the Royal Collection at Windsor Castle offers not only an exquisite sampling of Leonardo's extraordinarily diverse graphic oeuvre but also a genuinely accessible scholarly introduction to the drawings as a whole. Brief but penetrating introductory essays aptly characterize the activities of each phase of his career, while the carefully wrought catalog entries?complemented by fine color reproductions?examine the manifold functions for which the drawings were employed. Students of Leonardo will appreciate curator Clayton's straightforward characterizations, his thoughtful reexamination of some pieces, the chronological setting, and his ability to articulate scholarly complexities in a lucid and unpedantic fashion. For most libraries.?Robert Cahn, Fashion Inst. of Technology, New York
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About this edition

• Publisher: Abbey Library
• Publication date: 1978
• ISBN 10: 0491025777
• ISBN 13: 9780491025775
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 88