Leonardo da Vinci: Complete Paintings and Drawings

"A Favorite in my Home Library" according to Danny. Superb reference book on Leonardo. Very well-researched, adding much interesting history to his life works. I also highly recommend the Michelangelo reference in a similar format. I enjoy using a page magnifier to see into images and techniques better. Lighted page magnifiers are great for detailed images.. Madelyne Silvestre said I love how large the illustrations are in this book. I love how large the illustrations are in this book, this is a hardback book and it does add some weight to my bookshelf but it is well worth it.. K. Campbell said Wonderful idea.. I was able to take a look at the bio part of this set at my local library. After reading half of that book I knew I wanted to own my own copy. As an added plus it came with the drawings and notes book as a set. Wonderful idea.

It includes a fresh chapter exploring the artist's mesmerizing manuscripts.The accompanying account of Leonardo's life and work includes a special in-depth exploration of his masterworks The Annunciation and The Last Supper.. Its catalogue raisonné of Leonardo’s paintings covers both his surviving and his lost painted works. With full-bleed details of many paintings, the reader is able to inspect the subtlest facets of brushworks that came to revolutionize Art History.A further catalog of Leonardo's drawings arranges nearly 700 of his drawings by category (architecture, technical, proportion, cartography, etc) and showcases his fabulous observational finesse, from anatomical studies to architectural plans, from complex engineering designs to pudgy infant portraits. Da Vinci in detail: Leonardo's life and work — all pictures, all drawings! One of the most fully achieved human beings who has ever lived, Leonardo da Vinci (1452–1519) is recognized the world over as a figu

The text by Frank Zollner (and Johannes Nathan, who discusses the drawings) teases out meanings and sketches historical context without overloading his scholarly brush. Without it, one might have overlooked the dim crucifix on which St. That's a key to the spirit of this book: it's more fun than a week in the Louvre. Jerome fixes his blazing gaze, and quite misunderstood the sexist Hippocratic delusions that inform The Sexual Act in Vertical Section: "A tube-like duct leads from the woman’s breasts to her womb, while t

Since 1996 he has been Professor of Medieval and Modern Art at the University of Leipzig. in 1995 with a dissertation on the working methods of Leonardo da Vinci. He is the author of numerous art publications, director of Nathan Fine Art (Berlin and Zürich) and a teacher of art history at the Technische Universitä