Leonardo: 518 books

The genius of Leonardo da Vinci epitomises, more than that of any other figure, the Renaissance humanist ideal. The Italian painter, draftsman, sculptor, architect and engineer produced some of the most influential masterpieces of Western art, which remain the most widely popular and influential paintings...

Finally available, a high quality book of the original classic edition of The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci ‚ Complete. It was previously published by other bona fide publishers, and is now, after many years, back in print. This is a new and freshly published edition of this culturally important...

Leonardo da Vinci found in drawing the readiest and most stimulating way of self-expression. The use of pen and crayon came to him as naturally as the monologue to an eager and egoistic talker. The outline designs in his "Treatise on Painting" aid and amplify the text with a force that is...

Leonardo da Vinci found in drawing the readiest and most stimulating way of self-expression. The use of pen and crayon came to him as naturally as the monologue to an eager and egoistic talker. The outline designs in his "Treatise on Painting" aid and amplify the text with a force that is...

Scientist, painter, mechanical engineer, sculptor, thinker, city planner, storyteller, musician, architect — Leonardo da Vinci, builder of the first flying machine, was one of the great universal geniuses of Western civilization. His voluminous notebooks, the great storehouse of his theories and...

The excellence of the following Treatise is so well known to all in any tolerable degree conversant with the Art of Painting, that it would be almost superfluous to say any thing respecting it, were it not that it here appears under the form of a new translation, of which fome account may be expected. Of...

Leonardo da Vinci, the Author of the following Treatise, was the natural son of Pietro da Vinci, a notary of Vinci, in Tuscany, a village situated in the valley of Arno, a little below Florence, and was born in the year 1452. Having discovered, when a child, a strong inclination and talent for painting,...

**Letteratura "geniale". ** Leonardo da Vinci è un genio riconosciuto: la sua originalità ha saputo aprirsi ai campi più diversi, ottenendo sempre dei risultati eccezionali. Non ultima, in un ipotetico elenco di genialità, si colloca la sua produzione letteraria e le Favolesono da considerarsi...

Leonardo Da Vinci was an immensely popular Italian polymath, the epitome of the 'Renaissance Man', famous mostly for his paintings such as the Mona Lisa, The Last Supper, the drawing of Vitruvian Man. Being a genius artist, sculptor and inventor, Da Vinci was greatly interested in the laws of science...

Leonardo's Notebooksis a biography of the genius in his own words, connecting moments of his life to artistic accomplishments through his writings, drawings, and intimate thoughts. Leonardo da Vinci -- artist, inventor, and prototypical Renaissance man -- is a perennial source of fascination....

Here is a complete picture of the techniques and working philosophy of one of the greatest artistic geniuses of the Renaissance. Assembled by a brilliant scholar from Leonardo's own writings--Notebooks and The Treatise on Painting--as well as his artistic production, the book offers a carefully balanced...

"It is a miracle that any one man should have observed, read, and written down so much in a single lifetime." — Kenneth Clark, art historian and Leonardo da Vinci biographer A perfectionist in his artwork, Leonardo da Vinci studied nature and anatomy to produce amazingly realistic paintings....

Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci (15 April 1452 – 2 May 1519) was an Italian polymath, painter, sculptor, architect, musician, mathematician, engineer, inventor, anatomist, geologist, cartographer, botanist, and writer. He is widely considered to be one of the greatest painters of all time and...

Con questo libro Neri Pozza avvia la prima edizione integrale degli scritti di Leonardo da Vinci, pubblicati secondo l'ordine e la forma dei codici che li conservano. La serie, che si comporrà alla fine di quindici volumi, rende finalmente disponibili ai lettori italiani gli scritti di Leonardo,...