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Close up of Angel in Virgin of the rocks by da Vinci, LEONARDO DA VINCI, PAINTER in white and gold font above

Leonardo da Vinci, Painter

The Complete Works

Edited by Giovanni Villa

£30.00

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  • Offers an exhaustive account of this unique human, artistic and intellectual adventure through a comprehensive and up-to-date art historical analysis of Leonardo's work
  • Accompanied by spectacular illustrations
Full Description

In the Quattrocento, an era when the representation of the human figure was dominated by timeless images based on Botticelli’s example, Leonardo worked with light and colour to achieve a modelling that would restore three-dimensionality to the face and soften the rigours of perspective in a misty landscape, no longer a mere backdrop but a vivid pictorial transposition of careful scientific studies and refined psychological analyses. In Leonardo’s pictures, it is the changing atmospheric conditions that complement and breathe life into the delicate rendering of the forms and the emotional experiences of the subjects.

Thus the artist created powerfully expressive religious pictures and secular portraits that have a modern and disquieting quality in which the faces are true ‘windows of the soul’, highlighting a silent psychological dialogue between the painting’s subject and the observer. Artistic innovations are sustained by a new sensitivity, as well as by study of the refraction of colour, to which much space is dedicated in the Florentine master’s theoretical writings.

The present book offers an exhaustive account of this unique human, artistic, and intellectual adventure through a comprehensive and up-to-date art historical analysis of Leonardo’s work accompanied by spectacular illustrations.

Contents: Introduction; Biography; Gallery.

Specifications
Publisher
Silvana
ISBN
9788836621446
Published
27th Jun 2018
Binding
Paperback / softback
Territory
UK, Ireland, Scandinavia, Iceland, Germany, Eastern Europe, & Austria. Arab States non-exclusive
Size
280 mm x 240 mm
Pages
208 Pages
Illustrations
87 color
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