One of the most fully achieved human beings who has ever lived, Leonardo da Vinci is recognized the world over as a figure of infinite curiosity, feverish imagination and sublime artistic ability.
This updated edition provides the most comprehensive survey of the life and work of this master painter, sculptor, architect, scientist, and inventor. Its catalogue raisonne 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. It includes a fresh chapter exploring the artist"s mesmerizing manuscripts. Это и многое другое вы найдете в книге Leonardo Da Vinci: The Complete Paintings and Drawings (комплект из 2 книг) (Frank Zollner, Johannes Nathan)