Leonardo Da Vinci : The Genius of the Renaissance--His Life in Paintings

by DK Publishing

• ISBN13: 9780789441447
• ISBN10: 0789441446
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-03-15
• Publisher: DK Publishing, Inc.

Summary

Each volume is a visual resource with over 300 full-color illustrations, telling the story of a single artist with a look at the artist's life, the context in which he worked, and an analysis of his masterpieces.

Table of Contents

1452-1481 Leonardo in the Florence of the Medici
Medicean Florence: Lorenzo the Magnificent	p. 8
Patrons and workshops	p. 10
Apprenticeship with Verrocchio	p. 12
The Baptism	p. 14
The artist and the visible world	p. 16
The Annunication	p. 18
Painters from outside Florence	p. 20
The theme of the Madonna and Child	p. 22
Madonna with the Carnation	p. 24
Flemish echoes in Florentine painting	p. 26
Ginevra de' Benci	p. 28
Light and shadow	p. 30
St Jerome Penitent	p. 32
The speaking gesture	p. 34
Adoration of the Magi	p. 36
1482-1499 At the court of Ludovico il Moro
The letter	p. 40
Milan, the Sforza capital	p. 42
Contributions from central Italy	p. 44
Northern artists at court	p. 46
The Virgin of the Rocks	p. 48
The demands of court	p. 50
The Sforza Monument	p. 52
Architect, town-planner, technologist	p. 54
Faces, eloquent and grotesque	p. 56
The Last Supper	p. 58
The science of painting	p. 60
The Renaissance portrait	p. 62
Leonardo's Milanese portraits	p. 64
The Sala delle Asse	p. 66
Mantua, Venice, and the Romagna	p. 68
Leonardo, military engineer	p. 70
1500-1508 The return to Florence
The republic of Savonarola	p. 74
The Battle of Anghiari	p. 76
The first Mannerists	p. 78
Eccentrics and Italianized Spaniards	p. 80
Studies of anatomy	p. 82
The cartoon for the St Anne	p. 84
Michelangelo in Florence	p. 86
Raphael in Florence	p. 88
The Mona Lisa	p. 90
Studies on flight and the cosmos	p. 92
The lost Leda	p. 94
The sacred and the secular	p. 96
1513-1519 The Milan of Charles d'Amboise
The years of French domination	p. 100
The Trivulzio Monument	p. 102
Bramantino and Gaudenzio	p. 104
The painting of the St Anne	p. 106
Studies of optics and perspective	p. 108
Leonardo's Milanese contemporaries	p. 110
Followers of Leonardo in Lombardy	p. 112
St John the Baptist	p. 114
The nature of water	p. 116
Bacchus	p. 118
The last years: Rome and France
Leonardo in Rome	p. 122
Pope Leo X and Roman culture	p. 124
Leonardo at the French court	p. 126
The Mannerist debt to Leonardo	p. 128
Leonardo's legacy to Europe	p. 130
Index
Index of places	p. 134
Index of people	p. 138
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