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LEONARDO DA VINCI

by Kenneth Clark; Martin Kemp

Illustrated by Leonardo Da Vinci

Published by Folio Society. 1st thus. 2005

Slightly better than very good condition. Introduced by Martin Kemp. Large format. Dark brown cloth, gilt title to spine. Colour pictorial front cover. Colour illustrations. 264 pages including index.

Minor mark to rear board. Else a lovely copy contained in publisher's slipcase which is scuffed and lightly marked.

Stock no. 1830566

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Contents

  • PREFACE
  • INTRODUCTION
  • NOTE TO THIS EDITION
  • INTRODUCTORY NOTE TO THE 1988 EDITION
  • CHAPTER ONE: 1452-1482
  • Aim of the book; Leonardo's boyhood; apprenticeship to Verrocchio; Verrocchio's painting and sculpture; Leonardo's part in Verrocchio's Baptism; the Uffizi Annunciation; the Liechtenstein portrait, the 'Munich Madonna'; the Benois Madonna; the Louvre Annunciation
  • CHAPTER TWO: 1481-1490
  • The Uffizi Adoration; Leonardo's departure to Milan, his engines of war, the list of his works, the Vatican St Jerome; the Paris Virgin of the Rocks'; the portraits; Leonardo's pupils, Leonardo and Salai
  • CHAPTER THREE: THE NOTEBOOKS
  • CHAPTER FOUR: THE 'TRATTATO DELLA PITTURA'
  • Leonardo's writings on art; the Trattato della Pittura; his aesthetic theory; his notes on the science of painting and chiaroscuro, anatomy, dramatic propriety, his character as an artist as revealed in the Trattato
  • CHAPTER FIVE: 1485-1496
  • The Sforza monument; the 'Last Supper'
  • CHAPTER SIX: 1497-1503
  • The Divina Proportione
  • CHAPTER SEVEN: 1503-1508
  • Leonardo's productivity in Florence, the 'Christ among the Doctors' the 'Neptune'; studies of the flight of birds, anatomy and canalisation, the 'Battle of Anghairi'
  • CHAPTER EIGHT: 1508-1513
  • Interest in geology; the Louvre St Anne'; the Trivulzio monument
  • CHAPTER NINE: 1513-1519
  • Leonardo in Rome, studies of hydrodynamics; deluge drawings,
  • LIST OF DATES
  • BIBLIOGRAPHY
  • LIST OF PLATES
  • INDEX

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