Inventing Leonardo

by Turner, Richard; Leonardo, da Vinci

• ISBN13: 9780520089389
• ISBN10: 0520089383
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1994-10-01
• Publisher: Univ of California Pr

Summary

As he examines the changing views of Leonardo since the sixteenth century, A. Richard Turner both gives the reader a cultural history in brief of western Europe during this period and provides a context for examining Leonardo's relevance to our own ways of perceiving and interpreting the world.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction	p. 3
The Making of an Artist-Artisan	p. 12
Ducal Servant in Milan	p. 30
The Itinerant Engineer	p. 42
Giorgio Vasari Invents Leonardo	p. 55
Playing by the Rules	p. 69
Leonardo Goes Public	p. 84
Leonardo the Harbinger of Modernity	p. 100
The Mind of the Maker	p. 132
The Triumph of the Eye/I	p. 155
Possessing the World	p. 173
The Body as Nature and Culture	p. 191
A Blessed Rage for Order	p. 210
Epilogue: 1492-2019	p. 235
Bibliography	p. 239
Index	p. 257
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